[SOLVED] KDE3/4 to Xfce and very happy

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[stevepusser]

KDE 4 won't use that much RAM. You have something else going on eating up your memory.

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[bester69]

If you go for Xfce I'd recommend you MATE, in my opinion is much better than Xfce.

MATE is more polished, easier, quicker, more solid, and i think with long future.. MATE is going to include "unity bar apps" soon..

In my opinion and for my taste:
- KDE, MATE, Unity are Great
- Xfce, Gnome are Good
- Cinnamon, Lxde, others, are shitty

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[MALsPa]

What is with that no openbox direction?

Yeah, I wish there was an official Debian Openbox spin, but one can do a netinstall and then add Openbox. Alternatively, BunsenLabs is a very nice option.

[ruffwoof]

I use LXDE/Openbox and find it to be fine/good. Installed via livecd route http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unoff ... so-hybrid/ Pretty sure the LXDE choice came with Openbox by default (the non-free CD's in that list are pretty much identical to the official versions that exclude non-free http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/cur ... so-hybrid/).

How did you install LXQt? I can't find it in the (stable jessie) repository. Are you using backports?

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[ruffwoof]

Thanks 1624
Kiitos

I prefer to stick with stable (Mieluummin kiinni vakaa)

Have you tried google translate? for example

You can also enter a web address and it will translate all of that for example

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[stevepusser]

Hmmm--I just backported MATE 1.16 to stable Jessie a couple days ago, and I can't truly see much difference between it and the xfce4 4.12 (also backported) I usually run. They are basically both lightweight gtk 2 desktops (my backport followed a PPA that configured MATE to build against gtk 2 whenever possible, to avoid those damn gtk 3 issues such as incompatible themes). They certainly have a lot more in common when compared to KDE 4, which I also have installed.

Getting back to KDE mysteriously eating up a lot of RAM...is this on a true Jessie platform, or one where you have installed binary packages from outside Jessie...from Siduction, perhaps? ⊙▃⊙ ¬_¬

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[ruffwoof]

I Install pure Debian 8 + KDE and watch one movie.

First free -h is before movie and second is finished watching.

http://i63.tinypic.com/21l387d.png

Much of the decline in free memory will simply be down to cached data. If you want to free that back up again then as root run

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sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches