Openbox overhead is similar to that with gnome-panel
- by drN
I just installed openbox via sudo apt-get install openbox. It already has obconf, btw.
I noticed that when I logged into my openbox session instead of the one I usually use (gnome-panel and NOT Ubuntu 2D or one of the high overhead environments) and checked via htop, I found that a similar amount of RAM was being occupied (~600 MB or so) with openbox or gnome-panel.
What gives? Openbox looks lighter but it certainly isn't any different. Obviously the same daemons etc would run in both environments as they share the same folders.
Is gnome-panel as good as openbox then?