Hi Mihai, What do you mean by slow moving? Are window operations like moving the window, maximizing, iconify slow or is Firefox slow performing?
If it's Firefox, I have not had any issues on 6.8 but perhaps check the pkg-readme file if you haven't already for Cwm and Firefox. I don't know any security reason not to run fvwm 2 although it's older than others. Maybe worth confirming if this just an issue with the last snapshot and providing more details. Different window managers can certainly provide better general performance especially with low memory or older hardware but I'm not aware of any technical reasons why Firefox should be significantly faster with one rather than another. You'd still be using gtk either way I imagine. Regards Ed Gray On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, 3:48 pm Mihai Popescu, <mih...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Technically speaking, is it possible for a window manager to have a > performance impact on running applications in the GUI area? > > Real case: i had to run firefox very fast on a fresh snapshot install, so i > used the default fvwm instead of cwm. The graphical response is instant, > much much better than cwm. I tried twm, firefox was slow moving too. The > configuration for firefox is the same on all WM. > Is it possible, or is it my imagination? > > If that's the case, is it advisable to run fvwm from base? Is it too old > and should be avoided? > > Thank you/ >
