On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 00:18 +0100, Malte Steiner wrote: > - formerly I gained some performance by switching to a light > Windowmanager like Blackbox. Now I cant read any differences when I > measure the load with top, whether I use Gnome or Blackbox. Its a bit > strange in my opinion or did I miss a memo? > The Gnome developers finally started taking performance seriously a year or two ago and they have done a great job. Also the realtime kernel makes it much less likely that any display activity will perturb your audio. Unless you're stuck with a massively underpowered machine, use the WM that has the features you want. They all perform OK these days. Lee