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by craigevil
Wed Oct 06, 2010 12:19 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: Strange slowdown on startup
Replies: 5
Views: 5444

Re: Strange slowdown on startup

I thought you described my problem, but mine is a little different. After login, panel, desktop wallpaper and icons show immediately, but I have to wait about 15 seconds to run any program. If I right click on desktop, choose desktop properties, the window doesn't appear immediately. After 15-20 se...
by craigevil
Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:39 pm
Forum: LXDE Development & Programming
Topic: Benchmark testing - proving what LXDE can do.
Replies: 3
Views: 6941

Re: Benchmark testing - proving what LXDE can do.

A lot depends on the distro used, for example Lubuntu starts more services and uses more ram than Lxde on a Debian system. Things like prelink/preload can also have an effect on how much ram is used and how fast apps start. python ps_mem.py Private + Shared = RAM used Program 80.0 KiB + 14.0 KiB = 9...
by craigevil
Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:45 pm
Forum: LXDE Media
Topic: any light-weight mp3 player to suggest?
Replies: 10
Views: 27015

Re: any light-weight mp3 player to suggest?

Goggles Music Manager http://code.google.com/p/gogglesmm/ DeaDBeeF - Ultimate Music Player For GNU/Linux http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/ Gereqi - a PyQt4+Gstreamer clone of Amarok-1.4 https://code.google.com/p/gereqi/ MOC - music on console | console audio player for Linux/UNIX http://moc.daper.net...
by craigevil
Sun Jul 18, 2010 1:05 pm
Forum: Networking & Wireless
Topic: Wifi with LXDE Debian
Replies: 1
Views: 21969

Re: Wifi with LXDE Debian

lxnm was removed from Debian quite a while ago. NetworkManager - Debian Wiki - http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager WiFi/HowToUse - Debian Wiki - http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse Also you might try ceni from sidux. You should only need ceni and iw. ceni Description: Curses interface to /etc/net...
by craigevil
Sun Jul 11, 2010 5:21 pm
Forum: LXDE Media
Topic: My LXDE Desktop
Replies: 16
Views: 29564

Re: My LXDE Desktop

by craigevil
Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:45 pm
Forum: PCManFM
Topic: Latest PCManFM .deb
Replies: 1
Views: 3558

Re: Latest PCManFM .deb

Take a look at i386 build : 0.9.7-1 : “pcmanfm” package : Ubuntu - https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pc ... ld/1768350
by craigevil
Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:27 am
Forum: General Help
Topic: Non Geek Usability
Replies: 4
Views: 3854

Re: Non Geek Usability

Install gdebi to be able to click on a.deb and have it install. .desktop files are just simple text file, take a look in /usr/share/applications and open any of them with a text editor For example I run Firefox rather than iceweasel, below is my Firefox.desktop that I wrote then put in /usr/share/ap...
by craigevil
Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:28 pm
Forum: PCManFM
Topic: Remove Pcmanfm properly ?
Replies: 1
Views: 3890

Re: Remove Pcmanfm properly ?

Take a look at How To Set Thunar As The Default #!Crunchbang Filemanager ~ CrunchBang Linux Wiki - http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/howto/s ... ilemanager

No need to actually remove pcmanfm.
by craigevil
Thu Jun 10, 2010 11:05 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: How do I install Debian Linux
Replies: 3
Views: 3142

Re: How do I install Debian Linux

Uh the OP is a spambot. Doh
by craigevil
Wed Jun 02, 2010 2:57 pm
Forum: PCManFM
Topic: Is PCMAN 0.9 available in apt yet?
Replies: 6
Views: 5820

Re: Is PCMAN 0.9 available in apt yet?

only in sid -- i don't see it in testing Mike Aha my bad. Package pcmanfm * etch (oldstable) (utils): an extremely fast and lightweight file manager for X 0.3.2.2-1: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc * etch-m68k (utils): an extremely fast and lightweight file manager for...