[linux-audio-user] Re: favorite window Manager for making music?

[thewade]

Quoting Ismael Valladolid Torres <ivalladt at punkass.com>:
>
> If you're trying to get the lowest latency posible it's dumb having a
> desktop system that eats half your resources.
>

I think what Lee is saying is that with realtime-lsm (and ingo's 
spin-locking?), jackd, your audio apps, and limits.conf all set up 
right all processes bow to your audio apps. So audio will still get the 
lowest latency possible independant of other threads running on your 
machine, including the window manager. The screen may not refresh as 
frequently or be as responsive, but you should incur no addidional 
XRUNS from using one window manager over another.
Am I right?

Its kind of a techincality though, because if your not getting any 
XRUNS at a low latency, yet WM and thusly your interaction with your 
machine isin't very responsive, then what is the advantage of no XRUNS?

So there needs to be a balance, and that is where WM's with a small 
footprint fit in I guess. Because if it takes less resources to draw 
the screen, screen redraws are more likely to be called from the 
scheduler between audio app calls.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but that is my understanding.

-thewade