On 2 February 2012 09:51, Lisi lisi.reisz@gmail.com wrote:
My husband's desktop died pretty conclusively at the beginning of teh mirror outage. Not knowing about the outage, I set out to install Squeeze + TDE. Without success, of course. I tried David's offering, which I liked very much and had help from several people on this list, but had not succeeded in getting it all running properly when my husband came home. So I installed LXDE so that he could use Thunderbird to read his emails.
He has fallen for the speed of LXDE, and, for once, doesn't mind having to work differently. He wants to keep LXDE.
I therefore have a lot of TDE dependencies, but no actual TDE packages.
- If I install the rest of TDE at this stage, so that it is there if
needed, will it impact at all on LXDE's speed of booting up and shutting down?
No. Unless Trinity applications are also being started at startup, it
should not impact the speed of lxde.
I had been intending, as part of the reinstall, to move him from Thunderbird to KMail. In KMail, it is easier to remove virus-laden emails, before he sends them on to Windows using friends, without damaging or altering other emails. And I know it a lot better, and can more readily answer questions.
- Would using Kmail slow LXDE down at all?
Using KMail will load other trinity libraries and IIRC will also start up some background trinity programs (dcop etc). This will fill up your ram. "Slow Down" is subjective.
That's All I know, Calvin Morrison