27 Oct
2006
27 Oct
'06
7:54 p.m.
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:49:51 -0700
"Mark Knecht" <markknecht(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/27/06, Drucer Ninetynine
<drucer99(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
FWIW I use the ROX desktop with OroboROX as the WM. It seems pretty
snappy to me, and VERY configurable.
--
Will J G
--- Mark Knecht <markknecht(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
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).
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