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Openbox: A lightweight window manager (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 3, 2006 9:01 UTC (Fri) by niner (subscriber, #26151)
In reply to: Openbox: A lightweight window manager (Linux.com) by zblaxell
Parent article: Openbox: A lightweight window manager (Linux.com)

Actually on my 4-year-old-not-even-top-of-the-line-back-then machine konsole takes about one second to start from cache.
Starting konsole and exiting it takes 0.76 CPU seconds according to time.

But how did you measure those startup times? Looks nice.

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Posted Feb 3, 2006 13:28 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

You use the word "actually" as if you were disputing the original poster but your numbers are very close to his (760ms vs 570ms). So, I don't understand what you're trying to say.

Openbox: A lightweight window manager (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 4, 2006 14:14 UTC (Sat) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]

I dispute this sentence: "On 3-year-old machines the newer applications are almost unusable."

I can hardly say that on a 3-year-old machine konsole is almost unusable, when on an even older one it takes not even a second to start.