obviously select only the modular parts you actually need don't just emerge xorg-x11 (this pulls down loads of unnecessary stuff)<br><br>determine the exact dependencies necessary<br><br>in addition to kdrive (which I'm not hugely familiar with but search "xorg kdrive" on google and i found some useful mailing lists etc.) USE="minimal" reduces unneceassary stuff i use minimal as a global for a lot of packages when building livecd/usb's <br><br>I use gentoo-portage to check what use flags do, also actually reading the ebuild in question can tell you a lot<br><br><a href="http://gentoo-portage.com/x11-base/xorg-server/USE#ptabs">http://gentoo-portage.com/x11-base/xorg-server/USE#ptabs </a><br><br>check the bottom of the page it mentions<br><br><div class="useflag"> <div><b>minimal</b></div> <div>Global: <i>Install a very minimal build (disables, for example, plugins, fonts, most drivers, non-critical features)</i></div> </div> <br>i haven't tried kdrive yet but will at some point<br><br>Hanni<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 04/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Vladimir Pouzanov</b> <<a href="mailto:farcaller@gmail.com">farcaller@gmail.com </a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 11/4/06, Francisco Ares <<a href="mailto:frares@gmail.com">frares@gmail.com </a>> wrote:<br>> How can I make X "thinner"? The system doesn't need a window manager,<br>> so I didn't install any. The machine application is the X shell. It<br>> uses Python and WxPython.<br><br> You can try USE=kdrive (kdrive is X11 mode for embedded devices),<br>AFAIK it reduces it's size by removing useless features.<br><br>--<br>Sincerely,<br>Vladimir "Farcaller" Pouzanov<br><a href="http://hackndev.com"> http://hackndev.com</a><br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org">gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org</a> mailing list<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:hanni.ali@gmail.com"> hanni.ali@gmail.com</a><br>Mobile: 07985580147<br>Website: <a href="http://www.ainkaboot.co.uk">www.ainkaboot.co.uk</a>