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Re: efficiency of windows managers



On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 06:21:31PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote:
> On 9/27/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> >
> > its probably got more to do with memory *use* than management. By that
> > I mean, you may end up wasting memory by using kde apps within a
> > different wm. The kde apps will load up whole bunches of kde libs in
> > order to function in addition to the libs used by whatever wm you're
> > using. You haven't said what your 10-15 windows are doing, so I'm only
> > guessing. Also, it what ways does kde perform better than windowmaker?
> > is it in overall response of the system? screen drawing? window
> > dragging? just switching from one app to another within the same
> > workspace?
> 
> More windows are pretty standard, like gaim, iceweasel, icedove,
> xchat, amule, etc.  The thing happened is that whenever I need to move
> to a workspace with more than 3 windows already there, it takes
> seconds to "reload"

that sounds like either you're swapping or some problem with X
itself. Again, watch top and see what process is spiking during that
time and maybe you can narrow it down.


> and always give me a window on top which is not
> previous on the top. 

that's a WM problem for sure.

A

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