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

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 15:39 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> 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.
>

    I don't have a problem because I don't run Gnome or KDE when
recording ;-)

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