Re: Desktop Environment

From: Johnson David (DavidJohnson_at_Siemens.com)
Date: 06/17/03

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To: David Lodeiro <dlodeiro@optusnet.com.au>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org

    On Tuesday 17 June 2003 06:26 am, David Lodeiro wrote:
    > What would be the fastest, most efficient desktop environment to use
    > on freebsd?

    Don't confuse "desktop environment" with a window manager. Blackbox uses
    very few resources, so on machines with few resources it will be
    faster, but it is not a desktop environment.

    The actual window managers of KDE and GNOME are very small and very
    fast. They just seem slow because you're running a desktop on top of
    them. You can use Blackbox as the window manager for KDE, but it will
    be just as "slow" as if you used the native "kwin". If you've got less
    than 64MB of memory then you may want to stick with a small window
    manager, but from my experience with more than 64MB, once you have the
    environment started you'll see no speed differences between a plain
    window manager and a full desktop.

    Efficiency depends on how you work. If you're a classic UNIX user who
    thinks that the only purpose of X is so you can have multiple terminals
    on the screen at once, then by all means stick with a small window
    manager.

    p.s. On this dual-boot Win2k/FreeBSD workstation, I once did some
    informal time comparisons. From bootup to login to the final rendering
    of my homepage in a browser, FreeBSD/KDE/Konqueror was faster than
    Win2K/Windows/IExplorer.

    David
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