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From: Collins Richey <erichey2@××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Aterm ebuild README?
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 15:48:43
Message-Id: 20011023160205.36cdb578.erichey2@home.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Aterm ebuild README? by Karl Trygve Kalleberg
1 On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:15:30 +0200 Karl Trygve Kalleberg
2 <karltk@×××××××.no> wrote:
3
4 > On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 19:49:57 -0600
5 > Collins Richey <erichey2@××××.com> wrote:
6 >
7 >
8 > > So, then is xterm a resource hog? Aterm looks pretty, I doubt
9 > that I
10 > > could tell the difference in resource consumption.
11 >
12 > karltk 431 0.1 0.5 3412 1476 tty1 S 16:12 0:00 aterm
13 > root 433 0.4 0.9 5140 2396 pts/4 S 16:12 0:00 xterm
14 >
15 >
16 > It is a well-known fact that xterm is a resource hog. In the above
17 > "test",
18 > xterm has a black background, nothing fancy at all, while aterm runs
19 > a
20 > tinted background (means that the root bitmap is visible as the
21 > background
22 > in aterm, but with a tint. As you can clearly see, the tint color is
23 > blue
24 > ;).
25
26 Thanks, I'm convinced.
27
28 --
29 Collins Richey
30 Denver Area
31 gentoo_rc6 xfce+sylpheed