[luau] xterm background in icewm

Joe Linux joelinux at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 4 05:00:00 PDT 2002


It's true that rxvt uses 1/4 the system resources of Gnome Terminal but 
on an AMD K6-2/500 it's insignificant.  ICE uses very little system 
resources to being with.

charon at netzero.net wrote:

>Joe,
>I MIGHT be wrong but Gnome Terminal HAS to make use of some gnome widgets or something and those DO take up memory and time to load
>(maybe insignificant on a fast enough machine).
>But try comparing those load times on something like 133mhz, you'll see the difference.
>As for rxvt and xterm not having a scroll bar, they work the same as ye ol' runlevel3 does - use Shift+PageUp to scroll up. :)
>P.S. I'm not trying to dispute the quality of Gnome Terminal (or gnome in general) here, but I do know for a fact that rxvt takes
>very little memory.
>





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