Comments on: awesome WM Appreciation Post http://holyhandgrenade.org/blog/2009/10/awesome-wm-appreciation-post/ System administration from the trenches. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:10:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: John "Z-Bo" Zabroski http://holyhandgrenade.org/blog/2009/10/awesome-wm-appreciation-post/comment-page-1/#comment-139 John "Z-Bo" Zabroski Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:35:23 +0000 http://holyhandgrenade.org/blog/?p=270#comment-139 I looked up some paper history here. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=24054.24056 Check out who one of the authors is. I looked up some paper history here.

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=24054.24056

Check out who one of the authors is.

]]> By: Jeff http://holyhandgrenade.org/blog/2009/10/awesome-wm-appreciation-post/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Jeff Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:53:09 +0000 http://holyhandgrenade.org/blog/?p=270#comment-43 Hey, nice. I love it when I attract the attention of devs just by talking about things, even if it's only complaints about what an idiot I am. :) It's perfectly possible that my issues were caused by hardware or drivers or any of the other myriad things that make X.org behave completely differently on very similar tasks, but one of the things that drove me nuts the last time I gave Xmonad a serious try was that resizing windows was really, really slow, while other window managers (even relatively heavy-weight WMs like KWin) didn't seem to have this trouble. This is entirely anecdotal, and may not reflect everyone's experiences -- it may not even be current information. I should update the post to reflect that my experiences with Xmonad are based on code I used around a year ago. However, awesome does use XCB instead of Xlib, and this may translate into certain performance improvements. Hey, nice. I love it when I attract the attention of devs just by talking about things, even if it’s only complaints about what an idiot I am. :)

It’s perfectly possible that my issues were caused by hardware or drivers or any of the other myriad things that make X.org behave completely differently on very similar tasks, but one of the things that drove me nuts the last time I gave Xmonad a serious try was that resizing windows was really, really slow, while other window managers (even relatively heavy-weight WMs like KWin) didn’t seem to have this trouble. This is entirely anecdotal, and may not reflect everyone’s experiences — it may not even be current information. I should update the post to reflect that my experiences with Xmonad are based on code I used around a year ago.

However, awesome does use XCB instead of Xlib, and this may translate into certain performance improvements.

]]> By: Don Stewart http://holyhandgrenade.org/blog/2009/10/awesome-wm-appreciation-post/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Don Stewart Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:55:48 +0000 http://holyhandgrenade.org/blog/?p=270#comment-40 > "it seems to be a lot faster than Xmonad and other tiling WMs" This doesn't seem plausible, in my view. Xmonad uses O(1) operations for all key functions, and runs in constant space. We thought very hard about designing optimal data structures to keep the window manager footprint extremely light. Perhaps it is just psychological... > “it seems to be a lot faster than Xmonad and other tiling WMs”

This doesn’t seem plausible, in my view. Xmonad uses O(1) operations for all key functions, and runs in constant space. We thought very hard about designing optimal data structures to keep the window manager footprint extremely light.

Perhaps it is just psychological…

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