Top Tweaks to Make Ubuntu Start-up Faster
It is a general notion that Ubuntu is a bit sluggish; but here are some handy tips to trigger faster Ubuntu start-up
Boot-Up Manager
The Boot-Up Manager commonly abbreviated as BUM, happens to be a handy utility for starting or terminating boot-up scripts. After the installation is done successfully, BUM appears under — System -> Administration menu.
Using BUM Ubuntu’s start-up time may be reduced to a good extent.
Use Preload
Preload is a daemon process that helps in adaptive read-ahead functionality and monitoring various applications that are currently running so as to look for commonalities.
Depending upon the analysis, it preloads selective apps into the memory that are most commonly used. As a result, the start-up time is very low for commonly used applications, as they’ve already been fetched to the memory.
Use Openbox rather than Metacity
Openbox is a lightweight, minimalist version of the window manager that runs a lot faster than Metacity, which is lot bulkier, and hence slower. It has also been acclaimed that by running Openbox inside Gnome, the computer works faster and becomes cleaner.
To install Openbox, follow these steps:
sudo apt-get install openbox obconf openbox-themes
Next, you need to add an entry in start-up applications in order to set up Openbox as the default window manager. It can be done in following manner:
Go to System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications
Now, enter these details
Name: Openbox
Command: openbox –– replace
Note: As per Openbox documentation there are other ways of making Openbox your default window manager, though some of the functionalities are broken in 9.04, so the above steps are a safe work around for any version.
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