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

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 16:10 -0600, Jan Depner wrote:
>     Some window managers cause quite a lot of I/O.  KDE and Gnome
> being
> the biggest offenders.  Generally any change in the window manager is
> saved to disk somewhere.  This isn't the case with Fluxbox, fvwm,
> Blackbox, etc.
> 

Gnome does not do this.

> > If your WM is so bloated that it causes disk IO then the best advice
> is
> > to get a better WM.
> > 
> 
>     This was the point of the entire thread.  I was pointing out that
> CPU is not the only bottleneck and that is why I use a light WM
> instead
> of KDE when recording.
> 

I think your problem is KDE specific.  It's by far the most bloated of
the desktops.

Lee