Hi,
Replacing GDM for LightDM was a smart move.
(You can make it look like GDM; here's a hand: https://goo.gl/WpMrYg)
If you like GNOME and would still like to use it, I recommend changing
vm.swappiness to a higher value (default is 60). In my case I found
that changing it to 80 solved most of my unresponsive DE issues -
although I use Cinnamon, and I have 8GB of RAM. YMMV.
Regards
Marc
On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 8:39 PM, Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Hello again, Thanks to your suggestions, I decided to 1. Replace GDM with LightDM 2. Install LXDE as lightweight DE The installation was easy and I am really glad of the RAM performance obtained (I suppose GDM was the real resource hog).
These is only one small desire that is still unexpressed for me: I both have mutter and openbox locally installed and I would like to use only mutter (looks much better) when using LXDE. The problem is that I have literally no idea of how to set up its keys; from its man, I should change them from the Control Center, that is not present in LXDE (it's GNOME stuff) and I am not sure of which GNOME settings services I should execute to make it work. If anyone has any tips, please speak ahead!
Thanks again to all, anyways :)
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