Hi Wizard,
sddm worked great with plasma-desktop. Thanks! When I logged into plasma-desktop using the wayland option on the login screen, xinput was not able to detect keypresses so thumbs up. plasma-desktop uses less memory than GNOME Flashback but GNOME Flashback did not have a wayland option on the login screen so that comparison is incomplete - maybe the GNOME Flashback version uses less memory. GNOME Flashback xinput shows keypresses being captured from terminal, calc, and browser and I see Xorg in htop so it is not defaulting to wayland. One nice feature of GNOME Flashback is it is more responsive than plasma-desktop in VirtualBox on my notebook. Do you know if there is a setting to tell GNOME Flashback to use wayland?
Thanks for all the great feedback. The tasksel app alone saves so much time as I have a fully configured base install which I clone in under a minute. The base install has VirtualBox extensions in place, a higher resolution console, larger fonts, shared folder with the host OS, and aliases. It is so very nice to easily read the screen and copy and paste from host files and not wait for the base system install for each desktop install.
And pointing out plasma-desktop gave me the idea to look to its dependencies as a source of packages which could potentially be removed, at the cost of functionality. And this led me to wonder if the tasksel option for GNOME Flashback is installing an equivalent to plasma-desktop. Such Fun! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
GNOME Flashback htop/xorg/xinput:
https://i.postimg.cc/rmqhJk9R/Gnome-Min-Xinput.gif
plasma-desktop htop:
https://i.postimg.cc/T2jxfV1T/plasma-de ... d-htop.gif
sddm worked great with plasma-desktop. Thanks! When I logged into plasma-desktop using the wayland option on the login screen, xinput was not able to detect keypresses so thumbs up. plasma-desktop uses less memory than GNOME Flashback but GNOME Flashback did not have a wayland option on the login screen so that comparison is incomplete - maybe the GNOME Flashback version uses less memory. GNOME Flashback xinput shows keypresses being captured from terminal, calc, and browser and I see Xorg in htop so it is not defaulting to wayland. One nice feature of GNOME Flashback is it is more responsive than plasma-desktop in VirtualBox on my notebook. Do you know if there is a setting to tell GNOME Flashback to use wayland?
Thanks for all the great feedback. The tasksel app alone saves so much time as I have a fully configured base install which I clone in under a minute. The base install has VirtualBox extensions in place, a higher resolution console, larger fonts, shared folder with the host OS, and aliases. It is so very nice to easily read the screen and copy and paste from host files and not wait for the base system install for each desktop install.
And pointing out plasma-desktop gave me the idea to look to its dependencies as a source of packages which could potentially be removed, at the cost of functionality. And this led me to wonder if the tasksel option for GNOME Flashback is installing an equivalent to plasma-desktop. Such Fun! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
GNOME Flashback htop/xorg/xinput:
https://i.postimg.cc/rmqhJk9R/Gnome-Min-Xinput.gif
plasma-desktop htop:
https://i.postimg.cc/T2jxfV1T/plasma-de ... d-htop.gif
Statistics: Posted by CloisteredNeuron — 2024-06-09 04:46
