instead of playing with 'what uses more ram', have you tried ctrl + esc to check applications for ram usage?

the last time i checked mine was roughly 1 year ago when a sudden slow down during KDE boot up, discovered i forgot to include swap during installation

I don't know about how you use the swap memory, because mine is fixed at 256MB. I hear it's because I'm using Wubi to install Ubuntu...

no, i means, when you issue top on terminal, which application using much CPU or memory ? then, thats application is the real culprit

ah, sorry.

most of the time it's always KWin or plasma-desktop.

but nevermind, problem settled. I ditched the extra panel in exchange for conky in KDE as well as for my GNOME desktop

oic.. well done!

nautilus comes with gnome right?other file management that got good function?

Dolphin (comes with KDE)
PCManFM (comes with LXDE)

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Aug 30 2010, 05:48 AM

PCManFM can view/mount network folder?

never tried it though, because I wasn't very impressed with its GUI

I use Gnome simply because it come as default from Ubuntu. I have try OpenSUSE KDE and it look quite cool but I find Gnome easier to use, As for LXDE and XFCE, I use it on my older computer as they are lightweight DE. Not much different between them.

so how about GNOME v3 ?

final release supposed to be out at the end of this year but tangguh ke tengah tahun depan, current gnome 3 is for preview only.

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Added on September 17, 2010, 11:24 amThose who is with gnome now, Faenza icons set is really cun. As su, run the /INSTALL, we'll have the iconset extracted to usr/share/icon

The iconsets can be download from here.


This post has been edited by powerwoot: Sep 17 2010, 11:24 AM

Faenza available as ppa as well

Not really a fan of full DE's like Gnome or KDE. Only DE that I can (somewhat) live with is Xfce (real Xfce, btw... not Xubuntu Xfce).

I personally prefer standalone Window Managers (WM). If I really wanted a GUI heavy, 'bling-bling' desktop, I'd probably run Compiz standalone instead of Gnome or KDE, but 'bling' isn't really my thing, tbh.

My favourite WM is Openbox (the only truly dynamic WM), but I also like some of the tiling WM's like ScrotWM, Musca, wmii and Xmonad, since many of the apps I run are ncurses based.

This post has been edited by G-17: Sep 19 2010, 04:07 AM

I'm using LXDE, for what reason? it's simple , clean, and lightweight

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Added on September 19, 2010, 12:08 pmhi if use open box as manager, so we no need to use mouse?
just depends on typing coding ?

This post has been edited by dinnor: Sep 19 2010, 12:08 PM

+1
yup super simple and blazing fast.. hehe

Not exactly. Openbox is highly modular. You can make it almost 100% keyboard dependent if you want to. It all depends on how you configure the keybindings in your rc.xml Ncurses browsing can be done with the Vimperator add-on for Firefox, and you can also get tiling in Openbox if you install PyTyle (google it). Dmenu is essential for mouse-free use, imho.

By default, Openbox comes with very little, so you'll probably need to use the mouse for basic navigation at first.

At the end of the day, it all depends on how comfortable you are with editing the configs; mainly the rc.xml, autostart.sh (for your startup apps) and your required scripts.

Yo can also use a tiling WM like DWM, Scrotwm, Ratpoison...etc if you want a mouse-free setup.

Some useful links for you:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Openbox
http://urukrama.wordpress.com/openbox-guide/ (a bit old, but still useful if you're new to Openbox)
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dwm
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Musca
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ratpoison

As for LXDE, I never really got the point of it all. Probably easier for newbies, but it's defaults feel nowhere near as efficient as a pure Openbox setup that you've configured yourself, imho. PCmanFM handling wallpaper by default makes things feel messy, LX-terminal doesn't hold a candle to Urxvt, aTerm or Xfce4-terminal, and the LXPanel is just plain hideous (though that's just a subjectie opinion based on personal taste).

This post has been edited by G-17: Sep 19 2010, 09:34 PM

I like openbox because of it's simplicity.
Use it along with tint2 panel.

Just wondering if we should open a Desktop Screenshot show-off thread here?

I'm thinking to do it, but just wondering la.

Opening a thread so all of us can dump screenshots of our Linux desktop we are so proud of

how about it?

I prefer gnome, but recently encounter hell lot of problem with sound that I dont have time to deal with.
solution - use KDE.