Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 10:37:30 -0700 From: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> To: David Lodeiro <dlodeiro@optusnet.com.au>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Desktop Environment Message-ID: <200306171037.30793.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <200306172326.13507.dlodeiro@optusnet.com.au> References: <200306172326.13507.dlodeiro@optusnet.com.au>
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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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