Re: LUG: Using Compiz on a laptop (Slackware) - Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:09:24 -0500

Subject : Re: LUG: Using Compiz on a laptop (Slackware)

From : "Daniel Underwood" <daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:09:24 -0500

* Disclaimer noted :)

On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:41 -0500, "Kevin Hunter" <hunteke@earlham.[redacted]> wrote:
> At 12:37pm -0500 Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Alexander Kansinally wrote:
> > Well.. After a day or two of rebuilding my xorg system from scratch, along
> > with compiz of different versions it turns out conky was the culprit
> > along...
>
> Well, now that you've found the issue, I'm curious if you'll note any
> other issues generally involving Compiz. I used Compiz for about 4
> months before I finally realized that on my setup, it was slowly eating
> memory. I value and heavily use my memory so I have opted not to use it
> anymore, but I'm wondering if it's just me having this issue.
>
> Also, as a semi-replacement for Conky*, and assuming you use Gnome, you
> might appreciate the system monitor applet. For example, here's my
> Gnome Panel:
>
> http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kmhunte2/files/system_monitor_applet.png
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kevin
>
> * Not full, I know, as Daniel was espousing to me some of the cool
> things he had scripted with it.
>
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Daniel Underwood
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