[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu 18 Unity/GDM3 to LightDM/LXDE/OpenBox

[James Kelsh]

But isn't LXDE about to undergo a major rewrite?

On Sun, Jun 24, 2018, 12:38 PM Mark Steffen <rmarksteffen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the comments Ron and James.  I was surfing trying to find
> actual hard data (or someone that did some sort of testing) on memory
> consumption for the different window managers/etc. and it seem LXDE came
> ahead by a significant margin; gnome and xfce seemed close to tied (which
> seemed not credible but who knows).  All of my future Linux installs for
> desktop purposes with be Lubuntu (CentOS still my favourite for servers).
> :)
>
> *Mark Steffen*
> Office Direct: +1.226.476.1240 | Mobile: +1.226.600.0464
> *"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet." -Abraham Lincoln*
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 6:55 PM, Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Nice write-up Mark! Good to know your findings.
>>
>> I plan on setting up an older X220 for the in-laws with Ubu 18.04 or Mint
>> 19(Tara) when they do the release by month's end.
>>
>> I am finding that the mouse speed is much too great on the
>> trackpoint/trackpad/external usb Logitech(and MS) rodents.
>> Tuning the mouse acceleration and speed does nothing in either released
>> Ubu 18.04(Mate/Xfce) or Mint 19 Beta(Cinnamon and Mate)
>>
>> I suppose I can go much about with the mouse tables, but I wonder if
>> anyone else has the issue of an ultra-fast mouse? I tried this on a few
>> Thinkpads, the X201/X220/T450s, same issue.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ron Singh
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 5:40 PM, <rmarksteffen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Cheap Pentium/Celeron laptops were discussed a while back on the list
>>> and I decided to go ahead and get myself one as Canada Computers still
>>> had a sale on.
>>>
>>> I purchased an Acer Swift 1 refurb for $350.  Great little laptop,
>>> aluminum case, 13"ish 1080p IPS display.  64GB onboard SSD (but an M.2
>>> slot available for expansion) and 4GB RAM (not upgradable).  Pentium
>>> N4200 (quad core, non-hyperthread, quicksync, not a speed demon but
>>> passive cooling and long battery life).  I can get about 8 hours of
>>> typical use approximately (should be solid 8+ hours now).  I've got all
>>> my regular apps loaded
>>> (evolution/libreoffice/gimp/firefox/chrome/synced mail/documents/a
>>> couple ISOs I use regularly) and I'm about 38% full disk, not bad (I
>>> have not used the M.2 slot yet).
>>>
>>> Anyway, I was finding the default Ubuntu 18 to be a little laggy (and
>>> taking a lot of memory) so after doing a few basic things like
>>> disabling animations and stuff, and still not being happy, I changed to
>>> LightDM.  Still using Unity/gnome shell it was better, a little less
>>> memory use, but still I felt there should be major room for
>>> improvement.  So I switched over to LXDE/openbox/lubuntu.  WOW!!  Much
>>> much faster, I can load into ram every app I normally use and then some
>>> and still have 2GB of RAM free (not even touching swap).
>>>
>>> The "lag" is completely gone and everything is very snappy.  (Web
>>> browsing in Firefox was never laggy, just general window-managery type
>>> functions).  Anyway, I'm sold, this unit is now a very acceptable daily
>>> driver.
>>>
>>> Mark
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