Re: [LUG] X-windows problems (rant)

["paul" <psutton@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Somehow I think KDE and GNOME are more than just window managers as they are
entire user environments,   where as icewm, enlightenment are much smaller
and simpler,

What affect does Graphics card have on window manager running, I would guess
it's pretty important,  no matter what processor you have, the graphics chip
(AFAIK) determins how fast things are drawn.   So for kde it's important,
lets say that my 16mb graphics card (banshee), 256 mb ram and AMD 500 run
KDE 3 + Suse 8 extensions nicely.

I would suggest going for a smaller window manager,  most integrate nicely
as long as KDE is there,  then the apps can be run via other window
managers.  Not sure how well they integrate with GNOME, I guess the same
applies,

Hope this helps

Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Hatton" <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 8:21 PM
Subject: RE: [LUG] X-windows problems (rant)


> > P.s A p200 running X with say Blackbox or fwm2 should be quite
> > responsive and useable
>
> Hmm my P233-MMX with 96megs, running Gnome (Redhat 7.3) over VNC is not
too
> bad.  However the old laptop I got hold of (P120 24megs) really struggled
> with Gnone (Redhat 6.2)  Swtich it wit blackbox on it, and it's now quite
> responsive.
>
> I've noticed KDE2 seems to be a slow window manager.  Is KDE3 any better,
or
> is it heading to the realms of a bloated window manager.
>
> Pete Hatton
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