[conspire] More relevant to the origins of this list.

[Ivan Sergio Borgonovo]

On 4/25/20 9:03 PM, Alex Kleider wrote:

> Again, in case anyone is interested: with X and fluxbox (and a few other 
> things to fullfill all my needs) my results are:
> cat /etc/debian_version; free; df -h
> 10.3
>                total        used        free      shared  buff/cache 
> available
> Mem:        3935164     1668544     1788028       93960      478592 1947616
> Swap:       4085756      509904     3575852
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> udev            1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev
> tmpfs           385M   11M  374M   3% /run
> /dev/sda1       225G  3.9G  210G   2% /
> tmpfs           1.9G   60M  1.9G   4% /dev/shm
> tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
> tmpfs           1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> tmpfs           385M  8.0K  385M   1% /run/user/1000

I'm to lazy to close the stuff I'm currently running (firefox, hexchat, 
thunderbird, thunar, few qtterminals) but with lxqt I have

               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache 
available
Mem:        8120260     2419964     4470724      160916     1229572 
5246464
Swap:       1929212         856     1928356

Subtracting buff to used we get
fluxbox: 1189952
lxqt: 1190392

lxqt is really minimal and it's not that smart in windows placement, but 
it is actively developed and definitively a bit more comfortable and 
nice than fluxbox.
I was quite surprised its memory footprint is even smaller than xfce4.
If you wish you can even use wayland through kde kwin, I still had 
problem making virtualbox run on wayland so I stayed on plain X.

I didn't do anything special to optimize this system and it has been 
running several years... I just moved from kde to xfce4 to lxqt since 
being on sid sometimes something break up and since I've learned to 
avoid hyper customization and don't get too fond on any DE, in spite of 
reverting to the previous working version (that in the case of a DE may 
mean several packages) and wait they fix the bugs I pick up another DE.

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Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
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