On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:01:24 -0400 "Reuben D. Budiardja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted:
>On Friday 22 August 2003 03:17 pm, Cliff Wells wrote: ><snip> >> As an aside, I am a bit curious: if you are running, say Evolution >> under WindowMaker (with perhaps a WindowMaker-style theme to make it >> look pretty), do you *really* see any performance gain? > >In my experience, Yes. I run KMail, Mozilla, Konqueror all kind of KDE stuff, > >tried Evolution but don't use it regularly. I use FVWM. In my cases, running >it in FVWM is faster and snappier, *after* it has started. >What I mean it, for example like KMail, first time running it in FVWM, it's >probably as slow as loading it in KDE (or sometime a tad slower), since most >"KDE init stuff" is not yet initialized, but after it run, switching virtual >desktops, raising/lowering window, is definitely faster. Especially if you >run on "slow machine", it's more apparent. > >A friend of mine used to run KDE on Pentium II 300 Mhz 128 MB RAM. Running >openoffice, Kmail, Galeon (with some tabs) can something make the machine >like crawling, especially when lowering or raising windows. I switched her to > >FVWM (with FVWM-Themes), and the machine is really snappy right now (plus she > >can run more stuff). =================================================== Give ratpoison a try.......... VERRRRY small footprint and miserly on resource use, saving most of it for apps. Mike -- "The man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life" --Muhammad Ali -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
