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30 Mar

Improve Fedora’s Performance

Turn off Nautilus. I’m not kidding. It’s that much of a bloated pig. Sure, you won’t have icons on your desktop, or use the file manager, but to be honest, I never have. I think I’ll lose some stuff with drag and drop, but I’ve never used it anyway. The performance increase is noticable.

Run gnome-session-properties, pick the current session tab, highlight “nautilus”, and click “remove”. Then click “apply”. If you don’t like it that way, you can just run nautilus from the command line.

I also tried Openbox and sawfish for window managers. The latter is the best of the two, IMHO, but I couldn’t get some things to work the way I wanted to so I reverted back to the default, Metacity.

3 Responses to “Improve Fedora’s Performance”

  1. 1
    Frank Merenda Says:

    Thanks Sean!
    I never use nautilus for anything, but didn’t know how to shut it off. Thanks for the tip!

    -Frank

  2. 2
    Ryan Says:

    I should point out that this works for Slackware 9.1 as well. It really makes GNOME not suck so much.

  3. 3
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