[luau] xterm background in icewm

charon at netzero.net charon at netzero.net
Tue Jun 4 03:53:01 PDT 2002


> I don't think that's correct at all.
Might very well be so. Just to find out though, can someone with a similar setup run gnome terminal (not being in gnome) and see
what it access and how much memory it takes?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Linux" <joelinux at earthlink.net>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 03:45
Subject: Re: [luau] xterm background in icewm


> I don't think that's correct at all.  I don't run ICE on top of Gnome,
> and  Gnome Terminal launches instantly from ICE and in my opinion has
> certain advantages.  One of the advantages of ICE is that it runs both
> KDE and Gnome applications without problems. I believe he said he had it
> installed on RedHat which as far as I know tends to have Gnome as the
> default desktop, and KDE as the secondary choice.  At any rate, I run
> the Gnome Terminal in conjunction with ICE and think it's great and can
> see no speed compromise whatsoever.
>
> Michael Ableyev wrote:
>
> >Joe,
> >Gnome Terminal has nothing to do with icewm. The only way he could have it is if he has gnome installed.
> >Also, I believe (not sure though) that if you're running icewm NOT on top of gnome and use gnome terminal it takes a lot more
memory
> >and time to load because it has to load gnome libs. Point here being that if Daniel isn't using gnome he shouldn't run gnome
> >terminal. He could use xterm or rxvt instead.
> >
> >Mike the "Which font do you like better sir?"
> >
>
>
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