Re: Is for this community XFCE the most common DE to replace GNOME 3?

[Stephen Allen <marathon.durandal@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:51:08AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Vi, 18 nov 11, 19:44:09, Stephen Allen wrote:
> > 
> > You might try using Openbox. I run it without a desktop environment and it just
> > works. Even better without the overhead of LXDE.
> 
> $ ps aux | grep -i lx
> amp       3151  0.0  0.0   4012  1392 tty1     S    Nov15   0:00 /usr/bin/lxsession -s LXDE -e LXDE
> amp       3164  0.2  0.5  25700 11272 tty1     S    Nov15  15:18 openbox --config-file /home/amp/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml
> amp       3166  1.5  3.3 167032 67984 tty1     S    Nov15  80:14 lxpanel --profile LXDE
> amp       3174  0.0  0.4 102764  9040 tty1     S    Nov15   0:00 pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE
> [manually deleted the 'grep lx' entry']
> $ uptime
>  11:38:36 up 3 days, 15:50,  7 users,  load average: 0.07, 0.06, 0.08
> 
> It seems lxpanel brings some "overhead" (at least compared to openbox), 
> but it's probably due to the several applets (including a systray with 
> other apps). I doubt however that it is significant for any other usage 
> of LXDE than terminal multiplexer.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
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Might be more relevant if you removed LXDE entirely and installed openbox by itself. Then
compare the results of LXDE Desktop Environment vs Openbox Window Manager. ;)