--- Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am running fvwm happily with a resolution of 1400x1050 at 24bit
> color depth with two desks and four screens per desk. Instead of the
> gray background I like to have photographs with [EMAIL PROTECTED] A
> friend of mine told me recently that this would be a waste of memory.
> Therefore, I wonder if any of you can tell me how fvwm handles the
> memory consumption for background images.
I believe it depends on how they're applied. If you use them with
fvwm-root -r, then the image is retained across desks. If you apply
them via a colorset, then depending on the options you use, that will
take up more memory.
> Moreover, I assume there is no difference between memory consumption
> of personal background images vs. uniform colorized backgrounds,
> right?
Not quite true -- often single block colour takes up less memory than
an image on the root window.
Of course, if FVWM (and the operation of your PC) is not sluggish, why
should it matter to you?
-- Thomas Adam
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