Last Thursday 12 August 2004 08:58, Anahata was like: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:22:39PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 14:30, Andrew Dahlin wrote: > > > > I assume you're worried about the WM overtaxing the system therefore > > causing xruns. > > > > It should not matter which WM you're using if you are running a proper > > kernel. > > I've been thinking that: I'm glad somebody else said it :-) > > The windows manager and desktop is only user-land code and if jack and > the sound drivers are all running at higher priority all that should > happen while you've got audio apps running is either(a) no difference or > (b) the desktop becomes a little less responsive, depending on the > overall CPU and disk workload. Valid point, the issue is that the desktop can become a _lot_ less responsive on low-resource systems, also, if you're maxing out your CPU usage you can get nasty stuttering. KDE does take more juice. I don't think there's much to choose between the rest. My choice of WM is really based on ergonomics. configurability and looks. cheers tim hall
