[PlanetCCRMA] No frills window manager

Mark Knecht mknecht@controlnet.com
Wed Sep 29 08:47:00 2004


Andres Cabrera wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm wondering how I can set up (or find information for setting up) a no 
> frills window manager with my planet CCRMA FC1 installation (please 
> remember that I am pretty new to linux...). I can only choose between 
> gnome and kde. Would doing that improve realtime audio (or video- as in 
> pd gem) performance significantly?

Some of us use fluxbox. It's more hands on to get it configured the way 
you want but it's a very nice little environment when you do. It runs 
almost nothing in the background and has a pretty small footprint in memory.

Have fun,
Mark