Getting rid of enhanced desktop

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Getting rid of enhanced desktop
started by: meo

Posted by meo on April 28 2005,13:23

Hey guys!

How can I get rid of "enhanced desktop" in my hd-install? I just want a clean desktop. Thanks in advance!

Have fun everybody,
meo

Posted by clivesay on April 28 2005,14:04

Meo -

I believe you would just need the 'noicons' bootcode. The commands are in /usr/bin/enhance or /usr/sbin/enhance. I can't remember.

I believe the enhance script is called in the .xinitrc file.

Chris

Posted by mikshaw on April 28 2005,15:32

/usr/bin/enhance, and yes it's called from .xinitrc
You can remove that part from .xinitrc and add individual apps if you want a specific dockapp or two to run without the pager or icons.

Posted by clacker on April 28 2005,16:02

So, under the dsl menu->desktop, there are three choices: Full Enhanced Desktop, Icons Only, No icons. Does that mean that the fully enhanced desktop is redundant since it's always enhanced no matter what you choose unless you change the .xinitrc file?

Posted by mikshaw on April 28 2005,16:44

I think so. The menu item for "full enhanced" is the enhance script.
"icons only" runs xtdesk, and "no icons" kills xtdesk.
I've been thinking that "icons only" would be more aptly named if it killed the pager and dockapps. Maybe a little modification of the enhance script is in order...

Posted by meo on April 29 2005,08:38

Hi guys!

Thanks for all help. Now I can get a nice plain desktop.

Have fun Y'all out there,
meo

Posted by clacker on April 29 2005,13:00

Quote (mikshaw @ April 28 2005,12:44)

I changed my Icons only menu to point to this script and it got rid of everything in the slit (although the slit was still there).

Code Sample

#!/bin/bash
xtdesk &
killall -9 fluxter
killall -9 wmcpuload
killall -9 wmnet
killall -9 mount.app
killall -9 asmem
killall -9 wmix

Then no icons takes only the icons away (someone might want the slit but no the icons, and fully enhanced desktop brings everything back.

Posted by cbagger01 on April 29 2005,21:17

This is a good idea.

Why?

Because while each dockapp doesn't take up that much memory, all of them combined can quickly chew up a user who wants to free up some RAM to load a big optional extension.

Havining a menu item is alot easier than opening up an xterminal and typing in each killall command like I am doing today.

Posted by clivesay on April 30 2005,03:28

If you want no icons and want to save a little ram space, I have

Code Sample

rm -f /home/dsl/.xtdesktop/*

in my bootlocal.sh to wipe out the icons entirely. It leaves the dockapps, which I like personally.

Chris

Posted by cbagger01 on April 30 2005,03:47

Yes, but does it stop the xtdesk process from running?

The xtdesk process will use a few hundred K or more of RAM if it is running.

Same is true for each dockapp.

Posted by clivesay on April 30 2005,03:53

Quote (cbagger01 @ April 29 2005,22:47)

Yes, but does it stop the xtdesk process from running?

The xtdesk process will use a few hundred K or more of RAM if it is running.

Same is true for each dockapp.

Good point, CB. I hadn't thought of that.