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Re: tvtwm [was Re: X server for WinNT]



gaal@forum2.org writes:

 > >  > I don't want to start a holy war here (heh, famous last words :-)
 > >  > but...
 > >  > 
 > >  > gaal     26559  0.0  0.7  1700   492  p0 S   Jan 28   1:06 tvtwm 
 > >  > I don't use tvtwm ALL the time. Just most of it :-)
 > > 
 > > Last time I saw your desktop it was running KDE, what happened since
 > > then? ;-)
 > 
 > What happened? I did,
 > 
 > fripp ~ % ps aux | perl -ne 'print if /^.{59}k|CPU/'
 > USER       PID %CPU %MEM  SIZE   RSS TTY STAT START   TIME COMMAND
 > gaal     30486  0.0  4.7  5088  3012  p9 S    18:56   0:00 kwmsound 
 > gaal     30487  0.1  6.2  6640  3940  p9 S    18:56   0:01 kfm 
 > gaal     30489  0.0  4.8  5212  3080  p9 S    18:56   0:00 kbgndwm 
 > gaal     30490  0.0  4.9  5168  3108  p9 S    18:56   0:00 krootwm 
 > gaal     30491  0.2  6.2  5740  3956  p9 S    18:56   0:01 kpanel 
 > gaal     30492  0.0  4.7  4692  3024  p9 S    18:56   0:00 kwm
 > 
 > that's what happened!!
 > That's 20124k resident for a window manager! What's this, another
 > bloody Netscape!? It also takes over 20 seconds to load on my not
 > -overly loaded machine. Cripes.

Way to go! I ditched KDE for the same reason. I moved to Window Maker, 
though --
alexsh:~> ps auwx | egrep WindowMaker\|PID | grep -v grep
USER       PID %CPU %MEM  SIZE   RSS TTY STAT START   TIME COMMAND
alexsh     221  0.0  3.5  3532  2228  ?  S    20:02   0:01 /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker

 > >  > (yes, I also think vi is a very good editor. But at least I use
 > >  > FTE for programming)
 > > 
 > > I think the same about vi and also don't use it for programming (for
 > > me it's XEmacs).
 > 
 > Never to intrude on anyone's favorite editor, I'd like to re-recommend
 > FTE (hey, any other FTEers out there? wave or something :-) . It's got
 > loads of great features and it's very comfortable.
 > 
 > http://www.kiss.uni-lj.si/~k4fr0235/fte/

Everybody has his own preferences. XEmacs is at
http://www.xemacs.org, and I recommend it for editing, programming,
main & news reading, and just about everything else you do with your
computer. :-)


-- 
Alex Shnitman
alexsh@hectic.net, alexsh@linux.org.il
http://alexsh.hectic.net