GuTSy is slow!

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri Oct 19 21:11:52 UTC 2007


On 10/19/2007 12:09 PM, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 11:46 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> However, even if you uncheck bluetooth management, if you check System
>> Monitir you'll find that 'bluetooth-applet' is still there - sleeping,
>> but taking up memory nonetheless.
> 
> See he very next sentence in the post to which Derek replied: 
> 
> "Still, how hard is it to click menu System | Administration | Services,
> and remove the check mark from "bluetooth management"? Which immediately
> shuts down the daemons on my machine. The applet can be removed from
> startup in System | Preferences | Session (where, incidentally, you can
> also disable trackerd)."

I guess it's off to reading comprehension training for me this weekend
:-) I completely missed that last.

> 
>> I've found that using synaptic (Mark for Complete Removal)
>> is a better choice for me when doing this, as sometimes I miss the side
>> apps when doing from the command line. For instance, in bluetooth's
>> case: bluez-cups, bluez-gnome, bluez-pin, bluez-utils, etc.
> 
> Just FYI:
> 
> "aptitude show <package>" will give you a list of Depends, Recommends,
> and Suggests. "apt-cache showpkg <package> will give you the, often
> particularly helpful, reverse dependencies (which other packages depend
> on this package).
> 
> 

Thanks! - now upgrading my final Feisty system to gutsy... should have
upgraded from the RC CD first - repo download speeds are slooooowww. ":)





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