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Posted: May 20 2008,15:06 QUOTE

Re fonts and how things render, there are ways to improve the appearance of different parts of various apps without resorting to either GTK2 or true type fonts. This can keep system resource demands on the lighter side than if one were to use GTK2. Here's a screenshot of my gtk1 firefox (1.0.6 from DSL 4.2.4 from my last hard drive install):
http://lucky13linux.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/firefox.png

I edited my firefox userChrome.css to use artwiz snap; the same font can be used in gtk themes and in other apps (though snap sucks in terminal). The mydsl artwiz extension is only 44kb and provides several nice fonts which render very crisply without antialiasing (which I prefer to call blurring). The resource demands of GTK1 are much lower than GTK2. GTK2 and GTK2 extensions take up lots of extra space, use additional RAM, and require more CPU cycles.

Users can also change fonts used for rendering web pages if the defaults don't suit your tastes.


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Posted: May 22 2008,13:29 QUOTE

Hi!

"Si no hubiera gusto, no se vendiera la tela" is a matter of speech in Ecuador, where I lived for 5 years. The bottom line of this saying is that if there weren't different kinds of preferences for example in cloth and clothing, as this saying adresses, everybody would look the same and have the same taste. So essentially this is a matter of what you prefer and I have been longing for the ability to use TT fonts in DSL probably since I started using it for like 4 and a half years ago. So you maybe can imagine how happy I was when I got the hang of how to do it and I really like my current setup with DSL 4.3 using the original KNOPPIX file. Maybe someone wants to have it in a similar way so that was the reason I posted my current ideas and findings about it so that those hypothetic persons can benefit from it (and really feel the joy I feel). Then I have reached my purpose to help others to benefit from the knowledge and ideas I get as time goes by. I don't have so much time and energy to spare right now since I've taken on a pro bono case and recently an appeal was made to reconsider the matter including the ruling I had made in the case. So I must put a lot of time and energy into that. I hope you understand. Thank you for your post and if you want to be more specific about how you achieved the results you mentioned you are more than welcome to post them here.

Have fun however you want to use DSL,
meo


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Posted: June 20 2008,16:52 QUOTE

Hello all remastering fans!

I just want to tell Y'all that making a "backup remastering" is functioning over my expectations. I have currently a backup.tar.gz file that takes up 42+ MB but booting DSL only 30+ MB of RAM is used. I have 256 MB of RAM on my old laptop but it works just fine with TTF fonts and other things I have put in the backup. I use regularly Firefox 3.0 even if it is much more demanding than the earlier version. So I would really like to here if someone has tried this way of "having it your way" when it comes to DSL. I think it looks very professional and yet so portable. So feel free to comment about your experiences.

Have fun "having it your way",
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Posted: June 22 2008,13:27 QUOTE

Tmpfs ram usage is shown in the cache column, so it's not visible in torsmo, but it's still taken.. It can be swapped though.

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Posted: June 25 2008,21:27 QUOTE

Hi curaga!

What do you mean with cache column? I've had my doubts when it comes to the torsmo monitor a long time. The RAM usage and the SWAP usage doesn't add up in /home. The usage of resources in the /home line stays virtually the same even if you use extensions that are very resource "hungry" like Firefox 3.0 for example. Do you have any explanation to that? I'd appreciate any input in this matter just to know for the future.

Have fun out there in the cyberworld with DSL,
meo


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