Comments on: Reducing memory use with urxvtd and urxvtc http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/reducing-memory-use-with-urxvtd-and-urxvtc/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: X and Openbox in 12Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/reducing-memory-use-with-urxvtd-and-urxvtc/#comment-44795 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:07:57 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/reducing-memory-use-with-urxvtd-and-urxvtc/#comment-44795 [...] practical use though, I think the standard array of console programs inside rxvt-unicode’s daemon would be an improvement. And maybe dmenu and [...]

]]> By: Eric Fraga http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/reducing-memory-use-with-urxvtd-and-urxvtc/#comment-40346 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:41:50 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/reducing-memory-use-with-urxvtd-and-urxvtc/#comment-40346 The other alternative, although I am not sure of the exact memory hit, would be use one xterm with screen?

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/reducing-memory-use-with-urxvtd-and-urxvtc/#comment-40254 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:03:54 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/reducing-memory-use-with-urxvtd-and-urxvtc/#comment-40254 You’re right; sorry. I didn’t do a very good job explaining that when I wrote it.

]]> By: AlBundy http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/reducing-memory-use-with-urxvtd-and-urxvtc/#comment-40244 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:31:50 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/reducing-memory-use-with-urxvtd-and-urxvtc/#comment-40244 QUOTE
I have always resented the fact that my terminal-based systems running under X incur a rather hefty price in the way of one instance of urxvt per application, which in turn implies one instance of bash per application.
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That is not true.

You can always invoke a command like this:
xterm -e /usr/bin/vim
from some menu or shortcut of your desktop, and you will get a terminal application running under a X terminal, WITHOUT bash or any other shell.

You can replace xterm with your favourite X terminal, but you need check if the option is also named “-e”.

]]> By: Bryan http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/reducing-memory-use-with-urxvtd-and-urxvtc/#comment-40230 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:17:30 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/reducing-memory-use-with-urxvtd-and-urxvtc/#comment-40230 You could always use zsh, though I’m not sure how that relates to bash in terms of memory usage. It certainly provides me some extremely useful perks (smart auto-completion, correction of incorrectly typed commands, suffix matching, AWESOME globbing abilities etc.)

It’s funny – I’ve used urxvtd and urxvtc for a while – even on a system with 4GB RAM. (I’m a graphic designer and Adobe’s apps are notoriously RAM hungry) It simply makes sense to me, I suppose, to have a daemon that controls all of my term emulators.

]]> By: Using dmenu with xft fonts « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/reducing-memory-use-with-urxvtd-and-urxvtc/#comment-40218 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:33:05 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/reducing-memory-use-with-urxvtd-and-urxvtc/#comment-40218 [...] Projects « Reducing memory use with urxvtd and urxvtc [...]

]]> By: mulenmar http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/reducing-memory-use-with-urxvtd-and-urxvtc/#comment-40214 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:26:17 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/reducing-memory-use-with-urxvtd-and-urxvtc/#comment-40214 Nice, I hadn’t heard of that trick. :)

In the “lighter shell than bash” department, you could always compile a minimal bash, or even use dash. ;)

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