On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 11:03:58AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Fri May 2 2008, andy wrote: > > Cheers Mike (& everyone else who has contributed). I downloaded OpenBox > > and am running it within Gnome after rebooting. I would say that Xfce4 > > has some very serious memory holes at present - my system was just > > grinding to a halt. > > well, I just switched from KDE to XFCE4 and just with a first look, it runs > MUCH faster than KDE. On KDE, when I run klibido it uses 101% cpu useage (Duo > Core?), yet xfce, running about the same processes ( mail, firefox, > terminals, liferea and klibido) when I run top, klibido is only taking 10% > CPU and I have 90% free.
I don't think anyone said that XFCE4 used as much CPU power as KDE, its the memory thing that makes GTK2 a pain for me. While I use Konq for most browsing there are a couple of websites I use that have bugs that only Iceweasel can ignore. I need to use my big box for that, then of course get back out of Iceweasel to a saner world. I used to use XFCE4-terminal, since it did what I need in a way I like, but if I left it open, away would go the memory. Now I have mrxvt setup to work almost the same as the XFCE4 terminal (nice fonts, tabs, off-white background, etc) with far less memory used. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
