Re: [orca-list] intro and observations on Archlinux/Mate

From: kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>
To: "B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>, Chris Watson <ai6u w6sfm com>, orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] intro and observations on Archlinux/Mate
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 00:27:04 -0500

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hi
This sounds like what I get with thunderbird sometimes. Sometimes you
can alt tab away from, and back to it and orca will come back, but
mroe often than not you have to kill it and restart thunderbird. I'm
pretty sure this is a thunderbird issue, rather than an orca one. Your
system is plenty fast enough to run mate. I'd suggest maybe installing
a little more ram though, maybe up to 2 or 3 gb if you can. Mate
itself doesn't use much, but if you start running memory intensive
apps,  firefox, libreoffice, things can slow down. Even on my system,
8 gb ram, quad core intel 3470 cpu at 3.2 ghz if I have a lot of big
apps open, libreoffice, thunderbird, firefox, the system can use as
much as 4gb actively, not just cached. I never have run out of memory
but things can get cramped if you have less than 2 gb.
My system still is as responsive as ever, so my processor load is
usually down. Thanks
Kendell clark


On 08/22/2014 12:11 AM, B. Henry wrote:

No, not if you've configured things normally, mate will be fine
with a gig of ram. I think you may be better off with either
thunder-bird nightly, may be cqalled daily from the AUR, or rolling
back to TB 24 if you do not mind the sync issues that for me are
show stoppers, i.e. msg list is not in sync with actual message 
shown, so you must double check each message before deleting it. I
have run mate, XFCE and now mostly use fluxbox on Arch64bit on a
1.65GHz atom netbook. I do have larger swap, but never use more
than a couple hundred MB, and usually, even with mate which uses
the most memory of the three GUIs I have only use a few hundred KB
of swap. I do not do a lot of multitasking, and did adjust
swapiness and cache pressure a bit, but this should not be
necesary. Of course more is always merrier when it comes to memory
and processor power, but you are not pushing it at all with what 
you have. PJust for the record I also ran arch CLI-only for a bit
beforre installing my first GUI on it, XFCE. Then I installed mate,
and finally because of the limited hardware decided that my best
setup was ultra-lightweight with fluxbox and some nice
customizations. I run a pure alsa system, no pulse, and use startx,
no DM. This is a bit ot FOR here. I'd suggest you join the
talkingarch IRC channel to discuss details of your configuration
and perhaps get or share tips and tricks. Regards, and welcome to
the list, -- B.H.


On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 07:49:17PM -0700, Chris Watson wrote:

Howdy folks. My name is Chris, and am new to this list or any
other for that matter.

Old DOS junky, and have been fooling with arch cli for a year and
a half now. Great wikis.

Well, finally took the gui plunge, and settled on Mate. System is
3 ghz,SMP with1 gig of RAM.

When running Thunderbird, the speech freezes, and have tried
repeated (orca-super-s) and alt-f2, but no joy. If I move to
quickly, that seems to cause it. Probably need more memory? Have
1.5 g swap. Was amazed at the fast bootup time.I' starting out in
console and then issuing startx to bring up Mate.

Should I give up on this box and go for a more robust box?
Thanks.

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Follow-Ups:
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  - From: B. Henry

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