User statistics - how much does xfce gain?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-08-30, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> All three major desktop environments (gnome3, kde4 and unity) seem to have
> their problems with quality and robustness.
> Are there any statictics available, how much users xfce has gained?
>
> Thanks, Clemens
>
> PS: Any idea why xfce components consume quite a "lot" memory (rss):
> panel: 13m
> terminal: 10m
> Thunar: 10m
> xfwm: 9m
> xfdesktop: 9m
> xfce4-verve-plugin: 8m
> orage: 7m
> xfce4-mixer-plugin 7m
> xfce4-clipman: 6m
> xfce4-session: 5m
>
> This very basic xfce session (terminal + filemanager) sums up to 84mb rss.

I bet a lot of that is shared libraries (gtk, etc.), so adding up
those numbers probably isn't very meaningful.

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