![]() I want xbindkeys, because I use some shortcuts for common things (launch terminal, browser, etc). ![]() If I log into MATE because I want to do desktop-y things, I don’t want this xrandr command to run, so if I put it in PekWM’s start file, it only runs if PekWM runs. That way you can keep things specific to PekWM in there. It is called: ~/.pekwm/startĪnd all you do is put whatever you want to run on startup in there. Mostly it does everything automatically, I really just have to tell it which is primary and which side the other one is on. I have 2 screens, not the same size, and in the end the xrandr incantation to get them to play nicely in PekWM was: $ xrandr -output VGA-1 -primary -output DVI-I-1 -right-of VGA-1 To get the mouse to the left screen, I had to go off the right edge of the right one … not right! Full desktops, like MATE/Gnome/KDE, handle that automagically, whereas the lighter options needed some manual intervention. Now, the 2 screen thing did prove a trick (for me - maybe easy for you). PekWM does a nice job of positioning new windows, is relatively easy to configure for something so light, and does a fine job of just getting out of the way when you want to work. I settled on PekWM because it handled the 2-screen configuration better than anything lighter, and DWM is just a bit too terse for me - I do like a mouse. Basic configuration $ sudo apt install pekwm pwkwm-themes scrot And it seems like some things are not unloaded when you exit back to the display manager/login window, so you get different numbers each time. Note: completely unscientific, because some of these window managers will have to load applications to do things that the bigger desktop environments load up when you log in - for example, like graphical file management. ![]() Total RAM used with no applications open, and completely vanilla installs via the package manager (apt) (except turning off animations etc where available) (nearest 10 MB): dwm 250 MB ![]() But I spend a lot of time in virtual machines, and in terminals and applications, and I don’t need a full desktop, so how much memory can I free up? Base usage seems fairly high to me, maybe I have some unneeded services running… I am using Debian 11, so I am hardly using a notoriously slim Linux. I did a few rough experiments - logging into a Linux GUI, then checking memory use using top after using Ctrl+Alt+F1 to go to a text tty. ![]()
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