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

On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 16:10 -0600, Jan Depner wrote:
> Some window managers cause quite a lot of I/O. KDE and Gnome
> being
> the biggest offenders. Generally any change in the window manager is
> saved to disk somewhere. This isn't the case with Fluxbox, fvwm,
> Blackbox, etc.
>

Gnome does not do this.

> > If your WM is so bloated that it causes disk IO then the best advice
> is
> > to get a better WM.
> >
>
> This was the point of the entire thread. I was pointing out that
> CPU is not the only bottleneck and that is why I use a light WM
> instead
> of KDE when recording.
>

I think your problem is KDE specific. It's by far the most bloated of
the desktops.

Lee
Received on Sun Feb 26 20:18:17 2006