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by tenplus1
Tue May 24, 2011 1:35 pm
Forum: LXDE Components
Topic: LxPanel Volume Control, PCM not Master...
Replies: 2
Views: 4793

LxPanel Volume Control, PCM not Master...

Is their any way to control the PCM volume instead of the Master volume using the Volume Control icon ?? The only way I can do it is to use gnoem-mixer and it kinda defeats the purpose of having a volume control button handy... My reason behind this is because some hardware gets distorted when PCM i...
by tenplus1
Mon May 23, 2011 8:55 pm
Forum: LXDE Components
Topic: LXTask CPU % Mismatch
Replies: 8
Views: 7677

Re: LXTask CPU % Mismatch

OMG!!! Thanks 'sportscliche' that worked perfectly, it is a bug in the theming and changing theme to a non-animated progress bar dropped my CPU usage to 0% to 1%... Thank you so much... btw, am using Clearlooks and linux kernel 2.6.39 :)
by tenplus1
Mon May 23, 2011 12:22 pm
Forum: LXDE Components
Topic: LXTask CPU % Mismatch
Replies: 8
Views: 7677

Re: LXTask CPU % Mismatch

I ran both side by side and sorted the list so that processes using the most cpu are at the top, both lists had the same entries but both reported different cpu usage...
by tenplus1
Mon May 23, 2011 10:55 am
Forum: LXDE Components
Topic: LXTask CPU % Mismatch
Replies: 8
Views: 7677

Re: LXTask CPU % Mismatch

To make the test fair I ran both task managers one after the other on LXDE, this way they are using the same desktop and deamons on startup... LXTask still reports 10-12% CPU usage where-as XFCE-Task-Manager reposts 3-5%... I just dont get it...
by tenplus1
Sun May 22, 2011 7:58 pm
Forum: LXDE Media
Topic: any light-weight mp3 player to suggest?
Replies: 10
Views: 27056

Re: any light-weight mp3 player to suggest?

QmmP has a great ProjectM plugin for 3d visuals: http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/index_en.php
by tenplus1
Sun May 22, 2011 7:53 pm
Forum: Partner Repository
Topic: Lightweight applications list - please extend it
Replies: 13
Views: 69519

Re: Lightweight applications list - please extend it

Audacious is a great music player although QmmP is lighter and has the most excellent ProjectM visual plugin:
http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/index_en.php
by tenplus1
Sun May 22, 2011 7:47 pm
Forum: LXDE Components
Topic: LXTask CPU % Mismatch
Replies: 8
Views: 7677

LXTask CPU % Mismatch

LXDE is an amazing desktop environment and has suited my needs well, although I have one odd question to ask, in XFCE the task manager (xfce-task-manager) reported 3% CPU usage when idle but in LXDE (lxtask) reports 13% when idle, which is the corrent number and why are the numbers so different ?