Is there any further tips to improve performance on a pdaXii13 5.3.3 installation on Akita ?
I have removed scim as mentioned in the following post (https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=22798&st=45&p=153264&#entry153264), and also enabled swap partition.
Despite above steps, opening more than 1 program, eg. FBReader and xmms would cause menu redraw and windows dragging to be much slower than usual. The system feels much more responsive under Sharp / Cacko ROM.
Am I constrained by hardware limitation of the c1000, or there is anything more that I can tweak/modify to improve the system's responsiveness ?
PdaXrom cannot be lighter than Sharp / Cacko as it is running X(well tiny X but still) which alone is quite heavy for the Z. You can feel it when running games or videos inside and outside X environment. But on the other hand thanks to X we can run almost whatever linux desktop application, we can have moving windows, taskbar, pager, ... Do you have this on Cacko ?
What you can do is:
- upgrade to pdaxii 5.4.9(many things have been fixed and enhanced so it could speed things up a bit) or better upgrade to pdaxiiv2
- use a swap file
- if possible, do not use solid window dragging(I know it is possible with fluxbox, icewm, evilwm, jwm but don't know for openbox)
- use quasar mediaplayer instead of xmms (it's lighter, prettier and the dev is an oesf member)
- if you want to use xmms, use ALT + stylus to dragg the xmms window, it is much faster
- use gpicview instead of gqview(I know you will love it)
- if possible, do not use rox pinboard
- you can try xfe 1.0 to replace rox + gqview + leafpad (you will run fewer processes this way since xfe has an included image and text viewer ala Tree!ExplorerQT Plus(nice peace of application by the way))
- use keyboard shortcuts instead of navigating in the gtk apps menus with the stylus(remember you can redefine quite a bunch of shortcut keybindings if you enable gtk-key-accels in your .gtk2.0rc file, I know it works for rox, leafpad, gqview, gnumeric, mtpaint, but not for abiword )
- use nano 2.0.6 instead of leafpad
- As Capnfish said, you can try evilwm but then you won't have eye candy but it sure is extremely light.
- and of course you could use CLI for many things, writing scripts and so on but I don't think this is what you want
Hope this helps
