What desktop environment you are using?

[syms]

Originally Posted by tjwoosta Yes, that is exactly what I meant. Gnome and xfce cant do it without devilspie. Fluxbox and apparently kde can. As far as window tabbing, I meant like haiku's tabs. Here is a youtube video demonstration of fluxbox showing you what I meant. Its not exactly the best demonstration but its all I could find. Basically you can drag a window with the middle mouse button and drop it into another window, the two windows merge to become one window with tabs in the titlebar to switch back and forth between the two original windows. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zENMoS1BbwM Anyway after googling, I don't think kde has this feature, then again its not really a big deal like window placement. Its basically just an alternative to minimizing.

Well, thats very interesting feature, its first time i see it. I dont think that kde can handle it, but to me this features looks interesting, but useless. Well, maybe i was a bit wrong, these window managers can do unique things, so sorry. Anyway good luck trying out kdemod3, and before installing it, you should make sure that you have installed libjpeg 6 from AUR:
http://chakra-project.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=1097

[anticapitalista]

syms,
hi again.
Here are 2 screenshots of antiX running on my box with icewm.



and, with wicd disabled

[syms]

Originally Posted by anticapitalista syms, hi again. Here are 2 screenshots of antiX running on my box with icewm. and, with wicd disabled

Well well. Does your antix have desktop icon service? Does it have daemon which informs about newly plugged device? Does it have browser preloaded? Does it have good copy paste support just like klipper? And does it have sound events service running?
If so, then you win, i loose.
Also, you stated that more ram you have, then more applications use it. In first screenshot you started kernel with 300 mb ram, on second with 3 gb. As i see amount of ram doesnt affect how much application will use. So i was right?

[jomiolto]

Originally Posted by syms Also, you stated that more ram you have, then more applications use it.

Not the applications, but the kernel. The more memory you have the more is required to keep track of free/used areas and such. It's the same thing as with file systems: an 8GB volume might only require some (dozen) megabytes for the structure of the file system, while an 800GB volume might use a gigabyte or few.

I have 2GB of memory and a regular boot to Openbox shows about 40MB of memory usage (it's a very barebones system with no frills). The memory usage drops to 38MB if I limit the memory to 128MB. That's only a 2MB difference, but it gets bigger the more memory you use and the longer you keep the system on: with Firefox running the difference grows to 5MB (70MB used with 128MB ram compared 75MB with 2GB ram).

[anticapitalista]

Originally Posted by syms Well well. Does your antix have desktop icon service? Does it have daemon which informs about newly plugged device? Does it have browser preloaded? Does it have good copy paste support just like klipper? And does it have sound events service running? If so, then you win, i loose.

It is not a question of winning or losing, but how you want your own desktop/laptop to work for you. I don't want/need icons (though antiX comes with rox-filer and pcmanfm if icons are wanted) nor do I want/need a daemon to inform me that a device has been plugged in. I know it has been plugged in as I plugged it in
I feel I can do lots of things with my antiX icewm/fluxbox box that others prefer to do with a full desktop environment such as kde or whatever.

Another experiment I'd like to try. If you don't mind, could you post a list of the kde apps used on your box and I'll see how well it runs in antiX. (antiX is basically Debian Testing plus MEPIS tools).

jomiolto answered your second question.

[syms]

Originally Posted by anticapitalista It is not a question of winning or losing, but how you want your own desktop/laptop to work for you. I don't want/need icons (though antiX comes with rox-filer and pcmanfm if icons are wanted) nor do I want/need a daemon to inform me that a device has been plugged in. I know it has been plugged in as I plugged it in I feel I can do lots of things with my antiX icewm/fluxbox box that others prefer to do with a full desktop environment such as kde or whatever. Another experiment I'd like to try. If you don't mind, could you post a list of the kde apps used on your box and I'll see how well it runs in antiX. (antiX is basically Debian Testing plus MEPIS tools). jomiolto answered your second question.

Well, i use kdemod applications, they are tweaked. But i use konqueror for file managing and browsing, konversation, kuickshow, kmplayer, kedit, and some other stuff which i dont remember.
But if you meant what i used before taking screenshot, then well, there was daemons, konqueror preloaded and konsole.
And about that memory consuption thing, then well, this is more likely a theory thing than practical. If ill get 2gb of ram, and then i will run system, will ram consuption grows from 58mb to 200mb? I strongly believe it wont be so, ill lose just few mibs.

[UltimatePisman]

I'm using Gnome the most of the time.
I used to have LXDE, IceWM, KDE and Xfce, but Gnome fits my wishes the most.