18 Feb
2004
18 Feb
'04
8:14 p.m.
Erik Steffl <steffl(a)bigfoot.com> wrote:
Windowmaker {gnustep, musickit, etc is pretty nice as well.}
http://www.windowmaker.org/
http://www.gnustep.org/
http://www.musickit.org/
--
See these tears so blue. An ageless heart that can never mend.
Tears can never dry. A judgement made can never bend.
...
And I've been putting out fire with gasoline...
{Dave}
Hope this
isn't off topic for this list. Would someone be
willing to suggest a Window Manager that would work well with a Linux
audio box using the Planet CCRMA images? I have used the Gnome and KDE
environments and just have come to feel that they are too bloated for
what I'm trying to do.
Does using a Window Manager instead of a full-blown desktop such
as Gnome mean that I can have more audio processing power since I am
giving up graphics overhead?
I am trying out fvwm and it is pretty sparse, but was wondering
what others might suggest as best for audio?
make sure you don't use enlightenment with root window animations
enabled. other then that you will not see much difference in CPU usage.
as far as the memory goes - you need enough memory (for audio processing
and other programs) that pretty much all WMs have memory footprints too
small to care...
I like fvwm (very configurable, can be made fairly slim).
responsiveness tip for fvwm - don't use outline move/resize, use opaque
(full window moves, resizes), the outline move/resize grabs X server and
can cause other X programs to freeze (for the time you move/resize
windows), this might be an issue for some audio programs (that would
wait for X before doing whatever audio processing they are doing).