On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > Summary of my Arch Experiment until yesterday. > http://mcuee.blogspot.com/2009/04/arch-linux-revisited.html > > So I continue with my Arch Experiment. I removed Gnome, tried LXDE > and XFCE, both work fine. Then I tried slim as per your suggestion, > it is fine. But it is not easy to change language sessions as easy > as gdm. So I reinstalled gdm. > > Put network dameon in the background does improve the boot speed > by quite a bit (using dhcp here). Thanks for the tip from Solarwind. > > LXDE is really very fast. Now the slowest application to start seems > to be Firefox. I have Java based EIoffice which seems to be much > faster than OpenOffice. XFCE is not as fast but seems to offer more > programs. Still I need to carry on the experiment to see if I can > really avoid Gnome and KDE. If you want to be hardcore, all you need is Openbox and tint2 for the panel and a systray of your choice. Starts up faster than X itself :) -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist