Desktop Environment
Johnson David
DavidJohnson at Siemens.com
Tue Jun 17 10:38:17 PDT 2003
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 06:26 am, David Lodeiro wrote:
> What would be the fastest, most efficient desktop environment to use
> on freebsd?
Don't confuse "desktop environment" with a window manager. Blackbox uses
very few resources, so on machines with few resources it will be
faster, but it is not a desktop environment.
The actual window managers of KDE and GNOME are very small and very
fast. They just seem slow because you're running a desktop on top of
them. You can use Blackbox as the window manager for KDE, but it will
be just as "slow" as if you used the native "kwin". If you've got less
than 64MB of memory then you may want to stick with a small window
manager, but from my experience with more than 64MB, once you have the
environment started you'll see no speed differences between a plain
window manager and a full desktop.
Efficiency depends on how you work. If you're a classic UNIX user who
thinks that the only purpose of X is so you can have multiple terminals
on the screen at once, then by all means stick with a small window
manager.
p.s. On this dual-boot Win2k/FreeBSD workstation, I once did some
informal time comparisons. From bootup to login to the final rendering
of my homepage in a browser, FreeBSD/KDE/Konqueror was faster than
Win2K/Windows/IExplorer.
David
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