I am now using ratpoison as a window manager on my mythtv frontend. I saved myself some ram managed to shave a few seconds from boot to ui. Here is my .xsession. #!/bin/bash #xfwm4& ratpoison -c focus& #xterm & mythwelcome I also added VideoModeLin = 3 to the ~/.zsnes/zsnesl.cfg of the mythtv user in order [...]