Peter Peltonen wrote: > > Jon Pennington wrote: > > > In my experience, the four fastest common window managers are (slowest > > to fastest): > > > > IceWM > > XFCE > > WindowMaker > > Blackbox > > Maybe XFCE should really compared to GNOME / KDE, because it provides a > desktop environment... You could say that it provides an `environment', but it has very few `services' of it's own (I think it has a sound daemon and print server, but I'm not sure). XFCE 3.5 integrates very nicely into a GNOME desktop, much in the same way that bb 0.5x.x integrated into a KDE1 desktop. It's mostly subjective, and highly off-topic ;). > Umm, what avout FVWM? Faster than Blackbox? Not in my experience. FVWM2 is a decent window manager, but it's still pretty ugly (as noted by Rasterman and his XPM-FVWM variant that eventually mutated into the monster we know as Enlightenment). It's been so long since I used FVWM2 that I wouldn't venture a guess as to how fast it is. Ice and XFCE are within a nosehair of each other, as are WMaker and BB, but BB and WMaker have much lower latency, so they rate as faster in my four-line-take-it-or-leave-it opinions above. -- -=|JP|=- "Why, oh, why didn't I take the blue pill?" Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.atipa.com /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-595-3000 x1550 _\_V 6D04 39E0 CAE9 9ADA 2CA3 2EBE 898A 6C37 CA1E A29C
