Ion3 a good light GUI.
- From: "J.Markoll" <j.markoll@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 06:24:31 +0100
Hello to all,
I wanted to say and remind to all who have more or less trouble with the speed and efficiency of their machine, that under Linux distributions we can have multiple GUI's installed and login either on one or on the other.
I installed Ion3 a few weeks ago already now, and when running several greedy applications at same time, such as Thunderbird, Firefox, plus Blender and Galeon, just now, Ion3 allows my machine not to get stocked with a freezed GUI.
I just changed session and not even necessery to start the connexion again, it's all in the same state where I left the other session, except for the GUI.
To start under Ion3 the command is F12 which leads to a very small menu from which I run a terminal. (Menu/Programs/Run a terminal, menu navigation with arrows and with the escape key) I don't use any of the tricks of the key bindings and not even splitting windows.
The terminal takes the whole screen as well as the application's interfaces, and it is very comfortable. I have to remember what applications are installed, or I run Synaptic incase I need to check about one. Particularly as apps and commands for apps don't always have the same name :(
To open one more tab it's with mouse or with Ctrl+Shift, and all applications open in new tabs beside one to the other. To close an app a right click on one tab offers menus, among which 'close tab'.
Nothing more easy, elegant, and light! :)
No, it's not difficult tu run for a newbie. My 5 years old son starts learning to write in Ion3. He invokes 'pingus', 'supertux', and 'ppracer', he just comes to me and ask 'and after, which letter is it ?'
:)
To browse the files I use once the terminal, once Konqueror, that I installed alone without Kde. I invoque 'konqueror &' the '&' allowing to keep the process in background, but it does not always free the terminal, curiously in this case. Never mind, many tabs can be opened in the same window.
My machine has 512 Mo memory that I have tested twice with the Gimp torture test successfully. The very greedy I see when running qps (which is nice and light) are Gnome, and Xorg. So Xorg I can't change, but Gnome is good enough to do things like listen to music and surf on the web, not much more on 'only' 512 Mo, appearently (I already commented two tty over 4 in the /etc/inittab file, a few days ago, to gain a little).
Under Ion3 also I can listen to music, but I'm not used to do everything with it yet. A matter of habbits :)
Best greetings, Joyce Markoll.
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