lightening xubuntu

Vincent imnotb at gmail.com
Tue Dec 19 15:06:22 UTC 2006


  -s, --stop            Stop playback

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On 12/19/06, Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>
> 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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