pcmanfm as daemon

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi,

if you want a real stripped down lubuntu, have a read of
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/MinimalInstall and
start with the 'core' image.

Regards,

Phill.


On 20 May 2014 22:37, <farinet at arcor.de> wrote:

> What's the purpose of that option to start pcmanfm as a daemon? To have
> automatically mounted external device etc?
>
> I'm asking this since i'm underway to strip down furthermore lubuntu on a
> powerbook.
>
> It started that i noticed problems moving windows around the screen (was
> extremely slow). So i tried with jwm (instead of openbox and other). In the
> end i sticked with openbox but without lxpanel (tint2 instead, which is eye
> candy ;) ). Using slim instead of lightdm and nitrogen instead of pcmanfm
> --desktop to set the wallpaper now i suceed to use, after boot, only 210Mb
> of ram (starting automatically xscreensaver, tint2,
> polipo+tor+vidalia,clipit, blueman,keepassx and thunderbird) which seems
> not that bad to me.
>
> Moving windows is pretty snappy now. But i'd like to understand, if there
> is any disadvantage not starting pcmanfm in desktop mode. And/or for what
> it is good to start pcmanfm as a daemon.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance.
>
> Btw, with the help of tint2 launcher & openbox-menu, i have pretty much
> the same menu as by default in lubuntu
>
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