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Posted: July 14 2005,04:28 |
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| Quote (cbagger01 @ July 12 2005,22:46) | aterm definately improves the visual appearance of DSL with terminal window open and a semi-transparent view of the new wallpapers.
I am curious to see how aterm runs on very old hardware as compared to rxvt, however. |
Aterm really hurts low ram boxes. At least as long as you have transparency on.
On my low ram box, I have changed the command that starts Aterm to "aterm +tr" wherever it is called with transparency on.
It actually uses less ram than rxvt while running, I think (something like 200k. Although I think it uses more while
loading. I really don't remember, because I haven't used rxvt in a long while). And it looks a lot nicer than rxvt, even
without the transparency.
In other words, aterm is nicer to older boxen than rxvt.
But just like the old default theme, the new default theme is PAINFUL on low ram boxes. I recommend changing to the minimal
theme ASAP on your first boot. We low ram guys have to let the big boys have their pretty pictures and borders. ^^
twm forever!!!
As far as the backup/restore issue goes, I have persistant home and opt. All of my settings files exist in /home, and
after a little tweaking, all the apps I use are in /opt, so I do not usually use backup/restore.
But for boxen that do, such as this little toshiba (the low ram box I use to test) which is using a 256mb cf card as hda
(no extra room), I just back up settings files, and a few other tweaks, so it's easier for me just to start from scratch
with the new backup. Mostly because I had to sort through all my scripts by hand for the move to aterm.
And I had issues with all the ways of upgrading that have been described. But I have a strong feeling that that is the
operator, and not the instructions.
anyways, this is a big jump for DSL. Enjoy the ride/dive/fall/whatever. ^^
-J.P.
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