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Re: wearcomp displays

NOTE: This heavily depends on what window manager you use under X. If you use
twm, wm or even fvwm you should be fine, using KDE or GNOME will bring the cpu
and ram use back up and past that of windows NT/98. remember the more "cute" or
"neat" features a wm has the more ram/resources it will use.  I have found that
not using a wm for some instances works well, I start X with the application I
desire to run, but this is for dedicated information/control panels and not a
wearable.. I would try using fvwm first, and then explore some of the older and
much smaller window managers later.

On Mon, 15 Mar 1999,  may have wrote:
::Greg-
::
::	X shouldn't take much CPU at all - I live in X by default.
::Make sure its not trying to poll one of your serial ports as a mouse
::port.  Also, you might see if there are options to your APM utilities
::that ignore small spikes in CPU use - I could see X doing that.
::
::	The other thing is to try different X configurations/servers
::and see what takes the least power.  Most developers don't think to
::optimize their windowing system for watts :-)
::
::					Thad 
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