On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 01:30:13PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > > XFCE advertises itself as a fast window manager. But since both are based on > > GTK, won't Gnome be equally fast? What is it that makes XFCE faster than > > Gnome? > > > > Good question. > > It used to be faster. Today, I don't think it really is. IceWM and > Fluxbox are both better alternatives, IMO. XFCE is considerably more lightweight than GNOME. It doesn't have anywhere near the service load that gnome has, although it certainly *can*. There are options to turn on or off both gnoma and kde services -- useful if you run one or the other style of apps more frequently. It is true that it is much heavier than say ice-wm or *box. It seems to be getting heavier too, though its still pretty nice IMO. A
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