How much ram does a blank X session use?

[dragos240]

Just one that doesn't have anything, no GUI, no window manager, no desktop environment, not even a terminal emulator, just completely blank.

[kk0sse54]

Very, very little, try it out yourself. I think last time I did it was around 12 MB although K. Mandla succeeded with a window manager to get 12 MB I think.

[dragos240]

What would it be with fluxbox? Anyways, how can you have a blank one anyways? When I startx it displays my gnome setup. :\

[kk0sse54]

What would it be with fluxbox? Anyways, how can you have a blank one anyways? When I startx it displays my gnome setup. :\

If you use GDM disable the daemon and then make sure your ~/.xinitrc is blank when typing startx

[damis648]

As in enter a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and type in:

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
mv ~/.xinitrc .xinitrc.bak
X # or startx
and then when you are done:
m
v ~/.xinitrc.bak ~/.xinitrc

[Daisuke_Aramaki]

i ran 19mb with evilwm on an old machine. it was a very minimal crux/lunar setup.

fluxbox is very easy on resources as well. but the memory footprint depends on so many other things, like how many daemons and supporting processes are running.

on a no X setup, which i still use quite often i hit 37-50 mb mostly, with framebuffer, dvtm running a few instances of vim, elinks, and mpd to give you an idea.

[dragos240]

Ahh crud.

My home folder doesn't contain a .xinitrc, but it does contain a .bashrc. Is this for root?

[kerry_s]

my laptops 21mb on boot with jwm on arch linux, no login manager, uses inittab to autologin and .bash_profile to auto startx.

[RiceMonster]

Ahh crud.

My home folder doesn't contain a .xinitrc, but it does contain a .bashrc. Is this for root?

you can still run X without a .xinitrc. That file just tells X what to run when you start X. So if you don't have one, you'll launch a blank X session. You can create a .xinitrc yourself, as well. Also, .bashrc is your bash config file.

[dragos240]

thanks :)