<span style="font-weight: bold;">A few tips/ideas for improving performance:</span><br><ol><li>You might want to look for an alternative to Amarok as it is very heavy and requires kde libs.</li><li>If you aren't going to be using the desktop (ie. icons on the desktop), you could disable xfdesktop.
</li><li>Try changing your theme to a more light-load theme (if applicable).</li><li style="text-decoration: underline;">If you have kde and gnome services enabled at boot time, it will add a lot of wait time.</li><li>Get a faster computer?
</li><li style="font-style: italic;">I found 6.06 (Dapper) a bit faster then 6.10 (Edgy) but I can't say for sure.</li><li>Ensure the xfce4 compositor is disabled (most likely is if you didn't enable it)<br></li><li>Remove any unnecessary panels or panel plugins/launchers/objects/etc.
</li></ol>Hope that helps,<br><br>Cody A.W. Somerville<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt Price</b> <<a href="mailto:matt.price@utoronto.ca">matt.price@utoronto.ca</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br><br>I'm converting my laptop to a stereo component. It currently runs<br>xubuntu edgy and has amarok installed as well. I really prefer xfce to
<br>any ther lightweight wm/desktop solution -- I can hardly navigate ion3<br>or windowmaker -- but I would like to figure out ways to reduce load<br>time for xfce, which currently takes a while to wake up. In its new<br>
home the machine will really only run amarok, and maybe giFT/giFTcurs<br>and occasionally a webbrowser. I do need the volume-manager, though, to<br>connect an ipod. Any hints on what I might do to otherwise lighten my<br>
load? right now the wait times are acceptable for a computer, but<br>frustrating for a stereo.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>matt<br><br><br><br>--<br>Matt Price<br>History Dept<br>University of Toronto<br><a href="mailto:matt.price@utoronto.ca">
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