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I've definitely considered the lightweight wm route. I've heard a lot
about fluxbox lately. For 90% of my tasks (coding/browsing/email/IM),
they work just fine. The part where I've seen issues is on the other
"features" that come along with a wm that is tied together in the
background--which ultimately leads to complexity and the issues we deal
with. When considering multiple screens configuration, sound demons,
and getting various apps to talk well together, I find myself wanting a
more bloated wm like KDE. If this was a computer at work or a laptop,
then I think a lightweight wm would be fine. But for my home machine,
I want the extra "features". Anyway, I haven't had some of the issues you've seen--just this file browsing one. Everything else is working great which is the only thing that makes me stay. The multi-monitor/virtual desktop capabilities of KDE are simply awesome and that's a big deal to me. File browsing and playing movies are my two biggest headaches/shortcomings on this machine. Rob Clive Menzies wrote: On (15/03/05 21:50), Rob wrote:Just curious if anyone else has Konqueror/famd issues. With famd, my Konqueror file browsing will work fine until x hours later. At this point, Konqueror freezes on the first directory it shows. Then on a 'ps aux', I notice the famd process in a "D Uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)" or Z Defunct" state--today was "D". I have seen threads on the net about people giving up on fam and disabling it. As a result, you have to pause when entering directories occasionally, but its usually better than Konqueror freezing. I've been running without famd for a few weeks, but experienced Konqueror locking up again. So I enabled, famd. As usual, it worked for a while then the famd process went bad. '/etc/init.d/famd stop' nor 'kill -9' can stop the process and restore order. |
