Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com)

Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 24, 2007 20:06 UTC (Sat) by mikov (subscriber, #33179)
In reply to: Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com) by drag
Parent article: Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com)

I did a few tests on my machine. gnome-terminal came out 2 times faster than xterm with the "python" test. konsole came out 30 times faster than xterm ! I am as surprised as you are.

As for starting time, xterm literally trumps them. From this test (time seq 1 18 |while read i;do xterm -e ls ;done) I have:

xterm - 2.723s
gnome-terminal - 11.137s
konsole - 15.590s

In all cases I had another instance already open.

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