On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 14:03 -0800, thewade wrote: > Quoting Carlo Capocasa <capocasa@xxxxxxx>: > > > XFCE, the shining star among all linux desktops, with audio menu open. > > > > http://xthost.info/capocasa/xfce4audio.png > > > > Carlo > > > > How does this do for processing overhead? The "processing overhead" of one desktop environment vs. another is negligible on a modern system. On a correctly set up system with properly written RT apps the desktop won't be able to interfere with the RT stuff anyway. Lee > I have been using fluxbox on my "performance" machine because it is > lightweight but there are some features that I would like to have that > don't seem supported in that manager. I use gnome 2.10 on my other > machine because there isin't much you can do to make a pentium 700mHz > speedy enough to do a lot of realtime processing. > > Lets say your building a machine for live realtime processing > performance using PD: what windomanager is lightweight enough to not > draw too much CPU power away from the audio apps, yet has a "desktop" > and a customizable menubar able to do menus inside of menus? > > fluxbox cant seem to display a "desktop" and iconbox only does icons > and isin't really a menu system. > > The gnome screen: http://aproximation.org/transport-screen.jpg > > -thewade > > > >
