James Hiscock wrote:
Sure, there's plenty of difference... it's the same difference that caused me to switch to running gnome-panel under openbox rather than running Openbox as GNOME's WM.My fave is fluxbox and I run the gnome-panel on top and the fluxbox bar on the bottom. It seems much "snappier" than running the full Gnome desktop environment.
...and here I was just running gnome-panel from within fluxbox... I suppose there isn't that much difference, is there? <shrug>
If you do the latter (change GNOME's WM) you still have all the infrastructure of GNOME running on the backend (most notably Nautilus, to draw the desktop, for one example). If you run gnome-panel under a different WM (but not gnome-session), the GNOME backend is much minimized, which really speeds things up a lot. Since you're not really using the majority of GNOME anyway, just possibly some individual GTK programs, the backend is quite "missable" except for the very basics needed to run gnome-panel itself and the panel applets you're using.
Holly
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