MX-19 screenshots

[imschmeg]

@Head_on_a_Stick

Did you do anything more than shut down some tray apps?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Did you do anything more than shut down some tray apps?

Oh yes.

I've stripped it to the bone by removing all the stuff I don't want or need (plymouth, gvfs, avahi, tumbler, openssh, thunar, modem- & network-manager, xfce4-power-manager, upower, udisks, lightdm, haveged, CUPS, etc) and also disabled quite a few services. It would be a be a bit "heavier" if it was on the bare metal though, but not by much.

Booting with systemd as well 'cos I don't really understand how to use sysvinit; that seemed to improve the boot and particularly the shutdown time.

[imschmeg]

imschmeg wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 26, 2020 12:31 pm
Did you do anything more than shut down some tray apps?

Oh yes.

Well, I meant between those two screenshots, not in total. Obviously, you had to have done major surgery to get to the point of that first screenshot.

I did a similar experiment with antiX 19 64b, and got it down to 60M (according to free -m after login) running IceWM in a VM. Very similar removals. Considering that Xorg is 50M on its own, that's my limit. It's my goto VM for most things other than testing MX additions/subtractions.

[ceeslans]

showing off my conky sidebar on MX19 fluxbox...

[imschmeg]

@ceeslans

Wicked cool! Fellow Bostonian now in Europe? I hope your current environs are less chaotic than back here in the Hub.

[ceeslans]

Fellow Bostonian now in Europe? I hope your current environs are less chaotic than back here in the Hub.

@imschmeg - no no, I'm as dutch as can be.
very impressed with the fantastic architectural photos of Porter Station though

[imschmeg]

very impressed with the fantastic architectural photos of Porter Station though

Not as nice on the inside, tho.

BTW - I like the way you showcased that very nice pastel green (#C0DBB3). And I like the conky sidebar, and sidebars in general. Good for wide screens.

[asqwerth]

showing off my conky sidebar on MX19 fluxbox...

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Nice conky!

[asqwerth]

That reminds me, I think the Conky Manager fork (ie, Conky Manager 2) in Test Repo does work well to detect both old and new syntax conkies, as well as to run both types concurrently. I'm pretty happy with it.

Here is a screenshot: The mechanical clock conky is in old syntax, the other is in new syntax.



https://imgur.com/gU9XHf8

[Jerry3904]

showing off my conky sidebar on MX19 fluxbox...

Very nice--care to share the script for the MX collection?