[Wylug-help] Windows manager and low resources consumption (and gnome/KDE applications under blackbox)

[James Holden]

Think you meant to post this to the list....

I don't use KDE/Gnome/Blackbox often enough to say really.

James

Quoting Corrado & Rina <c.topi@bradford.ac.uk>:

> Concerning swalowing Gnome applications, I noticed that, whenever you
> launch a Gnome application under blackbox (as Galeon, Gimp, Gnumeric),
> the oafd server, which is launched by the application does not kill
> itself when the application is closed by the user.
>
> When you launch a KDE application (as Koffice), the dcop server (and the
> kinit) are launched with an option, which automatically shuts down
> itself when the user closes the application (but, sometimes, not when
> the user kills it with kill -9)
>
> Did anyone notice the same thing ....
>
> James Holden wrote:
>
> >Quoting Frank Shute <frank@esperance-linux.co.uk>:
> >
> >
> >
> >>On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 06:30:15PM +0100, Rina & Corrado wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>  Hy all.
> >>>
> >>>I was wondering, which is the window manager, which uses the lowest
> >>>amount of resources (memory, cpu ...).
> >>>
> >>>At the present I am using blackbox, which seems quite fine, but I would
> >>>like to hear from people using other windows managers.
> >>>
> >>>
> >[...]
> >
> >Fluxbox is even lighter than Blackbox.
> >
> >http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net
> >
> >It looks cool too, and can swallow Gnome panel apps, if you must.
> >
> >James
> >
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> >James Holden, Leeds, United Kingdom
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James Holden, Leeds, United Kingdom
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