Making it more efficient and even lighter (Page 1 of 6)

1. I would always keep one kernel. I didn't do this on Arch though, and Debian is far more stable, so...
2. Take a look at MPD. Don't know about adioscrobbling though...
3. What about midori? AFAIK it's quite lightweight
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5. Tiling WMs are generally very light at resources. There's a whole bunch of them, but the only one I felt comfortable with is WMFS. Other than that one, there's also Subtle, Awesome, Xmonad.... Ask gutterslob, he's an expert

I'm short of any others tips at the moment.

1. Better safe than sorry. Unless you are really tight for space (like a 4GB SSD) then keep a spare kernel.

2. Theres some scrobbling clients for MPD like scmpc and mpdscribble. The Sonata MPD frontend supposedly has audioscrobbling.

3. Iceweasel is basically Firefox. If Midori is not lightweight enough, theres always uzbl, jumanji, luakit, etc

4. Puddletag maybe? I honestly never judged whether its lightweight. I just like it because its like mp3tag (from Windows).

5. Tiling window managers. Evilwm is probably very light.

1)I removed my spare because i compiled drivers from nvidia so it was useless for me.

2)Try Deadbeef, works wonders for me

3) Midori, webkit and lighter

4)cant help you

5)Or if your not wanting a tiling window manager, ive been messing with Oroborus, with a couple of extensions its very useful and versatile. ALSO its ROCK SOLID STABLE (my experience)

1. You only need one working kernel at a time. If the liquorix one does boot your pc, then you don't need another one. Just be sure, when you update it, that you don't delete the old one before having tested the new one.

3. Iceweasel (Firefox) isn't the sleekest one, but it's the one I use because it has some features I need/like (mostly via add-ons).

4. What's your goal, exactly? Minimize installed disk space? Then you could go with a CLI tool like eyed3. Minimize memory and CPU usage? Why? I mean, a mass tagger is not something you fire up and leave open idle, it's something you close as soon as you finished using it, so its memory and CPU usage is actually 0 while you do anything else! If you like easytag, use it. Another nice mass tagger is kid3-qt. Or puddletag from the mepis repos.

5. I tried several WMs, including minimalistic ones like evilwm and tiling ones like dwm. My winners are openbox and xfwm4 (yes, I really like both of them), which are also the default ones for #! so I see I'm in good company here :-). I learned that I don't need tiling WMs, bacause I just keep my windows maximized most of the time, and when I don't, having the WM forcing my windows into tiles is more annoying than useful (for me).

2. - 4. I suggest you to give Quodlibet + his tagger Ex Falso a chance...Quodlibet is not super lightweight like deadbeef but it is far more complete, works very well with big libraries and it is really customizable.... Ex falso is a great tagger and I replace easy tag with it.

Last edited by Milozzy (2011-08-13 20:47:57)

Oh, I forgot to write that I deleted the standard kernel. From now I'm living on the edge.

Yeah, I may be a bit selfish here. But still, there must SOMEWHERE be people with wishes and 'issues' similar to mine .

Edit: Gedit and Terminator are now replaced by Leafpad and Sakura. I'm very happy with the result, both apps load much quicker than the standard ones.

Last edited by Grzegosz (2011-08-15 17:12:57)

It's not heavy, but doesn't start in a blink of an eye (which Leafpad does).

Lenovo S10 - Atom N270, 1 GB of RAM, GMA950 graphics.

Leafpad is great for basic text editing, and for anything more than that you would use and IDE like geany anyway.

Great thread, Grzegosz. I'm in the same boat as you, so I'm always looking for the lightest apps.

Just like you, I went through and uninstalled some of the apps that I don't need. Like the FTP client, Heybuddy, Gimp, and VLC.

I'm coming from Lubuntu, and those devs are kind of obsessed with finding the lightest apps. So whatever was on Lubuntu, I like to continue use. Apps like Leafpad. I also uninstalled Gedit. As for Terminals, I always usually always have two installed. Whatever was came with the system, and the other one is wterm.

wterm is very light, and I use it for apps like rtorrent that I have running constantly. I would have wterm installed as the only terminal, but unfortunately it doesn't have a copy/paste function. So if I have to do something quick in terminal, like install something, then I just use whatever was installed with the system. I have never heard of Sakura. But...if that has copy/paste and is lighter than Terminator, then I'll gladly install that and get rid of Terminator.

As with audio players, I'm also a DeadBeef user. It's one of the lightest native Linux players that I've found. Besides for MPD. But I really don't want to use a console for my audio player.

Recently DeadBeef has gotten a very basic tag editor implemented. So you can always go that way if you want. I also use EasyTag. Like someone else said, a tag editor isn't something you're going to have running constantly. So the size of EasyTag doesn't really bother me at all. I only have it running a few minutes at a time here and there.

Besides that, you can always use Foobar and MP3 Tag&Rename(two light programs). But Wine would also be running.

I'm going to keep my eye on this thread and see what else people come up with.

You know there are GUIs for MPD like Sonata, gmpc, QMPDClient and more right?

What exactly is the "it" that is becoming more lighter and efficient in this thread? 

I came here in search of some info on what services or apps that could be killed to pair down idle mem after boot..