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Michael Fratoni |
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[Rule-list] Slinky and tinyX |
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Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:30:10 -0500 |
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I've built XFree86 rpms for slinky, and they seem to work well. They are
about half the size of the stock rpms. They also offer about half the
functionality of the stock rpms.. ;) These packages use the stock
XFree.org 4.2.0 source, and are then patched to 4.2.1 during the build.
(There was no full source for 4.2.1 posted, only a patch file.) Next,
I'll try it with the source included with RH 8.0.
If anyone would like to try these packages, I'll make them available.
Here is a little bit of size comparison:
5.3M XFree86-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm
11M ../../devel/dist-8.0/stock/RedHat/RPMS/XFree86-4.2.0-72.i386.rpm
1.4M XFree86-libs-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm
2.2M ../../devel/dist-8.0/stock/RedHat/RPMS/XFree86-libs-4.2.0-72.i386.rpm
I did a slinky install on a P100 laptop, including base packages, network,
laptop, web/communications, and ssh package sets. Disk usage was about
319M.
address@hidden root]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 2.7G 314M 2.3G 12% /
none 18M 0 18M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 95M 4.7M 87M 6% /boot
Then, I built and installed Xfree packages, plus fontconfig, freetype and
fluxbox.
address@hidden root]# rpm -ivh XFree86-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm
XFree86-libs-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm
XFree86-tools-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm
XFree86-base-fonts-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm
XFree86-font-utils-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm
XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm
XFree86-twm-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm
XFree86-xauth-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm
freetype-2.1.2-7.i386.rpm
fontconfig-2.0-3.i386.rpm
fluxbox-0.1.12-1.i386.rpm
After install and removal of the .rpm files, it looks like the X packages
account for ~ 34M of disk usage. (348M v. 314M on /):
address@hidden root]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 2.7G 348M 2.2G 13% /
none 18M 0 18M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 95M 4.7M 87M 6% /boot
Create a link to the X server needed;
ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/servers/Xfbdev /usr/X11R6/bin/X
Available servers for kdrive are:
# ls /usr/X11R6/bin/servers/
Xchips Xfbdev Xi810 Xigs Xmach64 Xsavage Xsis530 Xtrident Xtrio
Xvesa
Create a .xinitrc file to load the desktop (in the users /home
directory).:
address@hidden mfratoni]$ echo exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fluxbox > .xinitrc
Then start up the server:
address@hidden mfratoni]$ startx
It took no more than 3 or 4 seconds to start up and have the fluxbox
desktop ready. The twm window manager included in the XFree86-twm package
also works, loads quickly, and is quite usable. I prefer fluxbox to twm.
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- -Michael
pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt
Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/
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