On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:59:02 +0100, William Light <wrl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> on Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 08:45:43AM +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: >>> >>> 2013/2/20 Len Ovens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> > >>> > With all the talk about minimal DE installs, and reading about the >>> > problems with different kernels and video cards... and what things >>> > cause >>> > xruns. I thought of a solution that may work well. >>> > >>> > Here is my minimal DE through the eyes of ps: >>> > >>> >>> About minimal/light DE, I would suggest the use of awesome >>> http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Main_Page >> >> >> Or, if it fits your workflow, there's not much lighter than dwm. >> http://dwm.suckless.org/ > > > Perhaps there are, maybe there aren't, but tiled WMs anyway are useless for > a serious audio production GUI workflow, you even don't need a WM, simply > use X only, if you like to break a sane workflow. > > At the moment I build a minimal install, that seriously can be used for a > common audio workflow and for this install I keep Xfce4. > > There's a difference between a minimal install that makes sense and a geek > contest, to get something that is lightweight, but useless for serious GUI > audio work. > > You at least want something as LXDE or Fluxbox. Frame based WMs might fit to > the very special needs of a minority, but can't be a serious recommendation. I've been productive on OpenBox with fbpanel, though it wasn't with audio. It's pretty much indistinguishable from more complex desktops - it has a start button/menu, task bar, "desktops"/"workspaces", a clock and a Network Manager icon. -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb; Computational Journalism Publishers Workbench http://j.mp/CompJournBench/ I am not an IP address! I am a free man! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
