Hi,
I had thought all window managers (and windows too) are a means of
displaying more
information on the display. - not just ssh sessions. Roll on the day
when there is a morse coded
report of slashdot along the titlebar.
The question I have - is why are window managers so "bloated"? If you
take an older release
(ubuntu 10.04 say) and put it on a machine which was running the latest
ubuntu (11.10) the
graphics are much much much faster. New windows are created in an
imperceptible short period of time.
Whereas - "seconds" pass by to construct a new window with the latest
ubuntu.
To get really snappy graphical response - you go back to (say) redhat 9.
Me thinks/wonders if the
last 10 years of gui development have just been a cleverly worked
disguise to get us to buy
bigger/faster machines.
Derek.
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On 11/04/12 10:36, Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 10:05 +1200, C. Falconer wrote:
I have ended up with a minimal xfce setup... window managers should
get out of the way and manage windows, not be an entire UI.
And at home its twm. Yes, a window manager from 1987.
Window managers are only there so you can open more ssh sessions...
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