Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: favorite window Manager for making music?

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 14:03 -0800, thewade wrote:
> Quoting Carlo Capocasa <capocasa@email-addr-hidden>:
>
> > XFCE, the shining star among all linux desktops, with audio menu open.
> >
> > http://xthost.info/capocasa/xfce4audio.png
> >
> > Carlo
> >
>
> How does this do for processing overhead?
> I have been using fluxbox on my "performance" machine because it is
> lightweight but there are some features that I would like to have that
> don't seem supported in that manager. I use gnome 2.10 on my other
> machine because there isin't much you can do to make a pentium 700mHz
> speedy enough to do a lot of realtime processing.
>
> Lets say your building a machine for live realtime processing
> performance using PD: what windomanager is lightweight enough to not
> draw too much CPU power away from the audio apps, yet has a "desktop"
> and a customizable menubar able to do menus inside of menus?
>

    Fluxbox doesn't have a menubar per se but you can easily do menus
inside of menus. The right click in the root window menu is easily
customizable.

-- 
Jan 'Evil Twin' Depner
The Fuzzy Dice
http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/fuzzy.html
"As we enjoy great advantages from the invention of others, we should be 
glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and 
this we should do freely and generously."
Benjamin Franklin, on declining patents offered by the governor of 
Pennsylvania for his "Pennsylvania Fireplace", c. 1744