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Old 12-22-2011, 09:54 AM   #31
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you might have some problem in your hard drive image because the download looks always corrupted (and always different): tried downloading the source of qtermwidget now, checking md5 and all looks ok.
qtermwidget is the only dependency between that stuff and it's needed only by qterminal.
Nevermind, I see the problem. Browsing to your site gives me this (yes I'm at work):
Code:
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This Websense category is filtered: Potentially Damaging Content. Sites in this category may pose a security threat to network resources or private information, and are blocked by your organization.
&*%@! Corporate Nanny-bots! BoB give me slack! Guess I'll download them at home!
 
Old 12-22-2011, 12:07 PM   #32
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about memory consumption: empiric measuring of busy memory (caches don't count) with free -m after booting with lxde, xfce, razor-qt and kde-4.7.4 (with a terminal to execute free ) on slackware64-current (kernel 3.1.6) with nvidia driver (memory hungry):
Code:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          5945        367       5578          0         44        197
-/+ buffers/cache:        125       5820
Swap:         2047          0       2047
lxde: 125 Mb
Code:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          5945        368       5576          0         45        191
-/+ buffers/cache:        131       5813
Swap:         2047          0       2047
xfce: 131 Mb
Code:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          5945        681       5264          0         81        392
-/+ buffers/cache:        208       5737
Swap:         2047          0       2047
razor-qt: 208 Mb
Code:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          5945        908       5036          0         96        353
-/+ buffers/cache:        458       5487
Swap:         2047          0       2047
kde: 458 Mb

Last edited by ponce; 12-22-2011 at 01:26 PM.
 
Old 12-22-2011, 01:19 PM   #33
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It's nice to be invisible. Well, I was asking about Andromeda, but I see I won't get an answer, unless I get it myself. Considering it's Qt4 (bloat) and your stats don't show it to be lightweight enough, I don't see an incentive to do so. Well, good luck with your playing with Razor.
 
Old 12-22-2011, 01:33 PM   #34
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sorry bob for not answering before: tried now qtfm and seems to work.
I was just sticking to razor-qt devs' hints for andromeda but, obviously, you can use any file manager you want.
And, as you said, you could have tried it yourself
Ah, what do you mean by "icon manager"?

To make it clear: I'm not pushing anyone in using this desktop environment, I'm happily playing with lxde pretty much everywhere in these days
Offering an easy way to build a full razorqt-desktop with sbopkg, I'm just trying to give slackers the possibility to test it theirself if they want, nothing more.

Last edited by ponce; 12-22-2011 at 03:49 PM. Reason: added question
 
Old 12-22-2011, 07:00 PM   #35
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At first I thougt it doesn't come with file manager, so that's why I mentioned the piece of software that I did. I saw the screenshots with something that looked like dolphin, not really like new/different file manager. And than you mentioned Andromeda (I lost you there). As I wanted to write a bit more on Razor elsewhere, I was asking you to clear the things up for me. Does it or does it not come with fm and what is Andromeda?

Btw, file/icon manager as in nautilus/konqueror/dolphin/pcmanfm. That is, file manager with desktop icons.

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Old 12-22-2011, 07:19 PM   #36
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And I hope we cleared up the missunderstanding. Sorry for posting qtfm on your thread, I really thought it would be usefull, as I tought Razor doesn't come with a file manager.
 
Old 12-22-2011, 07:27 PM   #37
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Btw, I'm not associated in any way with qtfm, and don't even usually use Qt applications. I run XFCE.
 
Old 12-23-2011, 12:39 AM   #38
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the razor-qt main package does not include a file manager.
Managing of icons on the desktop is integrated, it's not done through the filemanager like, for example, pcmanfm does for the lxde desktop when launched with the --desktop option (I think nautilus/konqueror/dolphin are not involved in managing icons on the desktop for their respective DEs).

Andromeda is mentioned as the QtDesktop file manager by the razort-qt developers in their wiki (good source of infos), on the page "3rd party applications" that I linked twice before:

https://github.com/Razor-qt/razor-qt...y-applications

Just a suggestion: if you like to write something on the matter, maybe it's better if you try this stuff yourself (as I wrote, I tried to make this as easier as possible without distributing packages) instead of basing your considerations on what I say
 
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Old 12-23-2011, 03:45 AM   #39
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Re Icons:
I think you are right. I think Nautilus (pretty sure about this one) and Konqueror were responsible some time ago, but not anymore (Gnome 3, KDE 4). I'm not sure about Dolphin.

Re 3rd party apps link on the wiki:
Sorry I didn't see that.

Re suggestion:
Probably a good suggestion, I just wanted to hear the first-hand experience before that.

Thanks.
 
Old 12-23-2011, 05:45 AM   #40
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Quote:
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about memory consumption: empiric measuring of busy memory (caches don't count) with free -m after booting with lxde, xfce, razor-qt and kde-4.7.4 (with a terminal to execute free ) on slackware64-current (kernel 3.1.6) with nvidia driver (memory hungry):
Code:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          5945        367       5578          0         44        197
-/+ buffers/cache:        125       5820
Swap:         2047          0       2047
lxde: 125 Mb
Code:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          5945        368       5576          0         45        191
-/+ buffers/cache:        131       5813
Swap:         2047          0       2047
xfce: 131 Mb
Code:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          5945        681       5264          0         81        392
-/+ buffers/cache:        208       5737
Swap:         2047          0       2047
razor-qt: 208 Mb
Code:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          5945        908       5036          0         96        353
-/+ buffers/cache:        458       5487
Swap:         2047          0       2047
kde: 458 Mb
Thanks for providing these figures, ponce! Just wanted to add, that after boot in runlevel 3 (multiuser, network, no X) logged in as a normal user free -m indicates 323 MB of used memory. Among the most efficient environment seems to be Fluxbox at only 272 MB, including Kmix and Kopete as autostart apps in the tray. So the console uses more memory than Fluxbox, LXDE, Razor-Qt and Xfce. Surprisingly, Enlightenment DR17 with all its eyecandy doesn't need much more memory than these.

Though I have to say, that the figures I get for Xfce and Razor-Qt are slightly bigger than yours, but still in the same order of magnitude.
It's about 370 MB for Xfce and 308 MB for Razor-Qt. For Xfce the difference might be caused by the fact that I have installed a few extensions from SBo, and maybe session management takes a few additional MB of RAM. For Razor-Qt I am not sure: Actually I haven't tweaked or modified it in any way...

Funny statistics!

So, the numbers make Razor-Qt attractive as a platform for Qt and KDE applications for use on older machines. In fact I have been wondering for while, when someone would start such a project, something like LXDE, but based on Qt. Maybe this is it! Only other option would be to solve the problem with new hardware, and Xmas is close, isn't it?

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Old 12-23-2011, 01:54 PM   #41
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I tried others, for completness, on this same machine

Code:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          5945        356       5589          0         43        242
-/+ buffers/cache:         70       5875
Swap:         2047          0       2047
console: 70 Mb
Code:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          5945        428       5517          0         45        283
-/+ buffers/cache:         99       5846
Swap:         2047          0       2047
X and just an xterm: 99 Mb
Code:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          5945        633       5312          0         55        441
-/+ buffers/cache:        136       5808
Swap:         2047          0       2047
enlightenment: 136 Mb
Code:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          5945        430       5515          0         45        284
-/+ buffers/cache:        100       5845
Swap:         2047          0       2047
fluxbox: 100 Mb
Code:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          5945        436       5509          0         46        283
-/+ buffers/cache:        105       5840
Swap:         2047          0       2047
windowmaker + pcmanfm --desktop: 105Mb (pcmanfm launched this way needs 5Mb)
Code:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          5945        435       5510          0         46        286
-/+ buffers/cache:        102       5843
Swap:         2047          0       2047
fvwm2: 102 Mb

wmaker, fluxbox and fvwm2 are weightless :-o

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Old 12-23-2011, 04:53 PM   #42
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Strange, I get these:
For xfce:
Code:
bash-4.1$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3706       1155       2550          0         87        634
-/+ buffers/cache:        434       3272
Swap:          996          0        996
and for fluxbox:
Code:
bash-4.1$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3706       1113       2593          0        103        727
-/+ buffers/cache:        281       3425
Swap:          996          0        996
Must be the number of buffers?

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Old 01-03-2012, 12:47 AM   #43
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sorry for the late reply: don't know really why you have much more busy ram, can be your video card, supplementary processes (qps is very handy in this case), etc...
you can check if a simple X and an xterminal already need that lot of ram: to test that here, I first backupped my ~/.xinitrc and then
Code:
echo "xterm" > ~/.xinitrc
BTW, the additional build scripts, besides Robby's razorqt.SlackBuild, to complete the Qt-desktop suggested by the razor-qt devs, are now on slackbuilds.org

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Old 01-03-2012, 04:29 AM   #44
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sorry for the late reply: don't know really why you have much more busy ram, can be your video card, supplementary processes (qps is very handy in this case), etc...
No problem. I'm not really bothered by those differences, considering the amount of RAM that's available.
 
Old 01-06-2012, 10:41 AM   #45
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I got similar numbers, first, when I just logged off from KDE and logged in to the other environments to run mem -f in an xterm window. Obviously, memory is not freed when a user logs off. Services like Akonadi continue to run.

ponce did it exactly right: To get more reliable figures, you'll have to reboot every time and execute the measurment before starting anything else than the xterm and running free -m. That's time-consuming, of course, so thanks for this, too, to ponce, but more, of course, for making this very promising new DE available to us!

Does anyone have a recommendation for a Qt based email client for use in Razor-Qt, that is not in symbiosis with a monster like Akonadi?

gargamel


P. S.: In order not to be gotten wrong: Akonadi is a great effort from a software architecture point of view, but it's unfortunately very big, too, and the real benefits for a typical home user aren't all that obvious.
 
  


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