[linux-audio-user] Advice on desktop/platform

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 15:49 +0000, carmen wrote:
> > I've been using KDE, and upon reccomendation I tried FVWM as it's
> > lighter, but I had the same number (lots!) of xruns and problems. It did
> > run slightly better; I had 9 extra megs of ram free but realistically I
> > want no xruns. I'm not running a patched kernel as I'm unable to find
> > out what patches SUSE needs to run that conflict with the realtime
> > patches. My kernel is 2.6.11 atm. Any advice? Apologies as this is
> 
> id upgrade to a kernel that is less ancient.

Agreed

>  and try something like fluxbox or wmii. the former at least has a panel with a system tray. which is most of what Gnome or KDE offers for the desktop at significantly less cost. if you still want to load up a GUI file manager now and then nothing is stopping you from installing Thunar...
> 
> 
> xruns could be due to your preemption settings (in kernel .config) or video drivers. but trimming the fat off your desktop can't hurt.
> 

Disagree, using Fluxbox over Gnome is not likely to make a difference
with a recent kernel.

Lee