On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Adam Tauno Williams awilliam@whitemice.org wrote:
I've not used it, but have noticed that Gnome in particular uses lots of screen real-estate versus other WMs.
"GNOME" is not a window manager. The real-estate required by various applications and dialogs won't change by switching window managers; all window managers do is decorate windows.
Educate yourself: http://tuxtraining.com/2008/12/20/how-to-best-utilize-screen-real-estate-in-...
Window managers do a lot more than decorate windows. The toolbars, the icon sets, the layout and placement of widgets "brands" the particular window manager. And sure, if you want to be pedantic, the Gnome desktop is more than the window manager.
Since this is a CentOS list, compare the default "Gnome" desktop (i.e., choose Gnome from the display manager) and the default setting has a couple toolbars, large window decorations, large fonts, etc.. On my 24" monitor it won't make much difference, but on my 1280x800 laptop it's wasteful.