On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 03:22:01PM -0000, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote:
> May be this message is rather off-topic.
>
> I'm using fvwm as window maneger; I'm trying to optimize the usage of memory,
> because it's an old machine with only 160Mb of RAM memory. My question is
> regarding the process that set up a background for my fvwm desktop. I'm using
> fvwm-root to load a png image as wallpaper, but I can't see that process with
> 'ps' or 'top' command so I'm looking for information about memory comsumption
> of fvwm-root; I really want to know if the memory used for fvwm-root is
> proportional to the image size and if that memory is used during all my fvwm
> session or it is freed up after loading.
>
> thanks in advance and sorry for my english ...
>
You might be interested in this informative post by Olivier:
http://www.mail-archive.com/fvwm_at_hpc.uh.edu/msg02143.html
You could always set a solid background with FvwmBacker or
xsetroot -solid <colour> :)
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Received on Mon Jul 05 2004 - 11:52:23 BST