How to make Lean Xubuntu
To improve Xubuntu’s performance, you can make it leaner. These are what people usually do:
- Change desktop to Fluxbox.
- Uninstall Thunderbird, change it with leaner email client, eg: Claws Mail or Sylpheed Mail.
- Inactivate unnecessary services.
- Uninstall other unnecessary softwares.
You could uninstall fluxbox through synaptic. After fluxbox installed, logout and then login again. If a pop up emerged, click Just for this session. Some people confirm that there is bug on fluxbox for ubuntu in which the context menu not shows eventhough you alredy click the mouse’s right button.
Logout from Fluxbox, and then use xcfe again. This time we would like to edit fluxbox’s configuration file on /home/user/.fluxbox/startup.
Open the file to edit it. See the Applications you want to run section. There, you could specify which applications should be activated on startup. eg: you could activate ?fusesmb /media/network &? this app browse windows network.
Logout for xcfethen login again to fluxbox. Voila… your xubuntu will be faster.
Tags: Xubuntu Leaner, Fasten Ubuntu, Make xubuntu faster
