lightening xubuntu

Matt Price matt.price at utoronto.ca
Tue Dec 19 14:59:36 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-18-12 at 15:48 +0100, Vincent wrote:
> But Exaile (http://www.exaile.org/) is written in Python and is a bit
> slow (though I still use it). On the other hand, it's probably faster
> than AmaroK...
> 

does anyone know whether exaile can be automated, whetheri n python or
bash?  I need to call a "exaile --stop-playing" somehow so I can rmmod
my sound module before suspending the machine I''m using (the module is
buggy).  I can do this with amarok using dcop, but exaile doesn't have
any documented interfacesthat I've yet been able to find.  thanks much!
matt


> On 12/16/06, Joshua Gardner <mellowcellofellow at gmail.com> wrote:
>         It's not that bad. No Gnome depends. Do sudo dpkg
>         -i /path/to/exaile.deb then sudo aptitude fix exaile and you
>         are good to go.
>         
>         
>         -Josh
>         
>         On 12/16/06, Ronnie Whisler <mrwislr at gmail.com> wrote:
>                 Exaile! looks nice but holy dependencies...... 
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:46:06 -0500
>                 Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>                 
>                 > Hey folks,
>                 >
>                 > On Sat, 2006-16-12 at 10:37 -0700, Joshua Gardner
>                 wrote: 
>                 > > There's also Exaile!, which isn't in the
>                 repositories but there are
>                 > > Ubuntu .deb packages available on there website.
>                 (I don't have a
>                 > > link right now. If I did I would give it to you. A
>                 couple seconds on 
>                 > > google.com/linux found it for me.) Exaile! is a
>                 GTK application
>                 > > similar to AmaroK. It's lightweight in RAM and
>                 required libraries. 
>                 > > Try it out.
>                 > >
>                 > > -Josh
>                 > >
>                 > > On 12/16/06, Ronnie Whisler <mrwislr at gmail.com>
>                 wrote: 
>                 > >         Use gmusicbrowser for you audio library
>                 playback program... 
>                 > >         its very
>                 > >         like and handles large libraries easily
>                 and very fast..
>                 > >
>                 > >
>                 > >
>                 > >         On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:58:29 -0400
>                 > >         "Cody Somerville" <
>                 cody.somerville at gmail.com> wrote:
>                 > >
>                 > >         > A few tips/ideas for improving
>                 performance: 
>                 > >         >
>                 > >         >    1. You might want to look for an
>                 alternative to Amarok 
>                 > >         > as
>                 > >         it is
>                 > >         > very heavy and requires kde libs.
>                 >
>                 > this is definitely the main concern for my plan -- I
>                 agree it's very
>                 > heavy.  however I haven't found anything else that's
>                 as user-friendly. 
>                 > two concerns here:
>                 >
>                 > 1 -- I need to make this absolutely foolproof or my
>                 family will just
>                 > get annoyed with me for futzing with a
>                 coputer.  myhtv has worked
>                 > great here; edubuntu on the other hand just
>                 languishes.  I want to be 
>                 > sure spouse & kids can use this in a very intuitive
>                 way.
>                 > 2 -- I am also buying an ipod (hence option 5 below
>                 doesn't work so
>                 > well for me!).  It's important to me that the ipod
>                 also works
>                 > unproblematically.  anyway I haven't got the ipod
>                 yet so I will 
>                 > experiment with exaile as soon as it gets
>                 here.  will also check out
>                 > gmusicbrowser-- that's one I hadn't heard of
>                 >
>                 >
>                 > >         >    2. If you aren't going to be using
>                 the desktop (ie. 
>                 > >         > icons
>                 > >         on the
>                 > >         >    desktop), you could disable
>                 xfdesktop.
>                 > >         >    3. Try changing your theme to a more
>                 light-load theme
>                 > >         > (if applicable). 4. If you have kde and
>                 gnome services 
>                 > >         > enabled
>                 > >         at boot
>                 > >         > time, it will add a lot of wait time.
>                 > >         >    5. Get a faster computer?
>                 > >         >    6. I found 6.06 (Dapper) a bit faster
>                 then 6.10 (Edgy)
>                 > >         but I can't
>                 > >         > say for sure.
>                 >
>                 > just went through a fair amount of hassle installing
>                 edgy, think I'll
>                 > stay with that for now. 
>                 > >         >    7. Ensure the xfce4 compositor is
>                 disabled (most likely
>                 > >         is if you
>                 > >         >    didn't enable it)
>                 > >         >    8. Remove any unnecessary  panels or
>                 panel 
>                 > >         >    plugins/launchers/objects/etc.
>                 > >         >
>                 >
>                 > will do
>                 > >         > Hope that helps,
>                 > >         >
>                 >
>                 > thanks!
>                 > matt
>                 > 
>                 >
>                 
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