[linux-audio-user] Re: E17 - our choice of WM in the future?

[Folderol]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:49:51 -0700
"Mark Knecht" <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/27/06, Drucer Ninetynine <drucer99 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > For kicks I built E17. It runs on my AMD64 machine
> > > and looks fairly
> > > nice but many of the basic windowing operations seem
> > > sort of slow
> > > compared to Gnome.
> >
> > Did you check the configuration tool? Check it out -
> > you can set the value of frames per second. I do not
> > remember what the default value was, but I could set
> > it up to 200 frames per second with my 2.8GHz P4
> > system with Matrox Parhelia P650 graphics adapter. It
> > was faster than anything else I've tried with this
> > computer (and I've been running XFCE mostly).
> 
> I didn't find any configuration tools, or they weren't obvious when I
> looked around with my mouse. None the less I'm not really talking
> about anything esoteric. It's just that I'll try moving a terminal
> around or flipping firefox in back and in front of something else and
> it seems sluggish.
> 
> No big deal as there was a deal breaker I ran into immediately. When I
> run MythTV in a window under Gnome I can move it around on my screen.
> When I run it in a window in E17 I can move the control part of the
> GUI but when the video starts playing it's stuck in the upper left
> corner of the screen. That's not true on Gnome or KDE. However fvwm
> and E17 all fail the same way. fluxbox, interestingly, doesn't give me
> window decorations and incorrectly starts the video in the upper left
> even when the GUI is located elsewhere, but at least fluxbox allows
> the playing video to be moved where E17 and fvwm do not.
> 
> >
> > Anyway, maybe you compiled it with wrong options or
> > something. It should not be slower than Gnome under
> > any circuimstances. I suggest you wait until it's
> > officially released and then test it and see if you
> > like it.
> >
> 
> Yeah, most likely it's something I did or something they are not aware
> of. Looks to me like they have a lot of work to do to come up to full
> usability though.
> 
> I've removed it from my system as it doesn;t look of value ot me right now.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark

FWIW I use the ROX desktop with OroboROX as the WM. It seems pretty
snappy to me, and VERY configurable. 

-- 
Will J G