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‎Alternative Desktop Environments: added LXDE

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‎Adjusting filesystems

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‎Taskbar/Panel

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‎Streamlining the desktop environment: font change

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+==Alternative graphical environments==
 {{Todo|...}}
 ==Streamlining the desktop environment==

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-==Alternative graphical environments==
+>==Alternative graphical environments==
 {{Todo|...}}
 ==Streamlining the desktop environment==

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 * [http://foxdesktop.sourceforge.net/ FOX Desktop Environment] <tt>uses FOX Toolkit</tt>
 * [http://www.gnustep.org/ GNUstep] <tt>provides it's own toolkit</tt>
 But also, some Window Managers exceed the task of managing windows towards providing a functional workbench. See below for a list.

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 ==Adjusting filesystems==
-You can also try to optimize memory usage by making sure that you have as little as possible of your filesystem residing in RAM. To do this make sure that the following mount points are set to reside on your harddisk in {{path|/etc/fstab}}.
+You can also try to optimize memory usage by making sure that you have as little as possible of your filesystem residing in RAM. To do this make sure that the following mount points are set to reside on your harddisk in {{path|/etc/fstab}}. {{Todo|how?}}
 * /dev (not possible if you use udev)
 * /tmp

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 *[http://jodrell.net/projects/perlpanel Perl Panel] <tt>(depends on GTK 2, gnomevfs, perl)</tt>
 *[http://www.gkrellm.net/ GKrellM] <tt>(depends on GTK 2, flexible plugin based skinable vertical panel)</tt>
 ====Desktop Pinboard====

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 You can mark packages installed as automatically installed by hitting 'M' (uppercase m), it will be marked for deinstallation if it's not longer required.
-You could also install <tt>localepurge</tt> which will remove all unneeded locales and localized manpages for packages you install.
+You could also install <tt>localepurge</tt>, which will remove all unneeded locales and localized manpages for packages you install.
 ===System clock===
 <tt>ntpd</tt> can occupy around 4MB of memory, which is a substantial proportion of many older systems' total. [http://chrony.sunsite.dk/ <tt>chrony</tt>] is a pair of programs that replace the standard <tt>ntp</tt> and require much less memory.

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 **[http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wmx/ wmx] <tt>slightly more featureful version of wm2</tt>
 **[http://wmii.suckless.org wmii] <tt>keyboard driven approach, very small, dynamic window managing</tt>
 ====Taskbar/Panel====

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-|style="vertical-align:top" |This page is meant as a collection of information on how to save memory to make Linux work reasonable on older system with limited amount of RAM.
+|style="vertical-align:top" |This page is meant as a collection of information on how to save memory to make Linux work reasonable on older systems with limited amount of RAM.
 Most distributions nowadays don't take much care about it anymore, so there are a lot of things you can do to save memory. To get a smoothly working Linux environment on a low memory machine you will need to consciously choose a lot of aspects of your system, most importantly the graphical environment, desktop environment and applications. This page provides detailed information about these various optimization possibilities.

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 * [http://www.lesstif.org/ Lesstif] / [http://www.openmotif.org/ OpenMotif]
 * [http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/index.html QT]
-* [http://www.windowmaker.org/development-wings.html WINGs] <tt>(kind of a lightweight GNUstep toolkit, provided by the WindowMaker developers)</tt>
+* [http://www.windowmaker.org/development-wings.html WINGs] (kind of a lightweight GNUstep toolkit, provided by the WindowMaker developers)
 * [http://www.x.org/ X Toolkit]