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- Path: sparky!uunet!nic.unh.edu!unhtel!morwyn!forrie
- From: forrie@morwyn.uucp (Forrie Aldrich)
- Subject: Re: MGR stuff
- References: <Brpoz2.I7o@world.std.com|
- Organization: Vision Graphics
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 05:04:05 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.050405.349@morwyn.uucp>
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- In article <Brpoz2.I7o@world.std.com| azog@world.std.com (Azog Thoth) writes:
- |
- | Is anyone doing anything with mgr anymore? Its a great window manager, but
- | I am wondering if there are any more clients out there? I recently got
- | the Atari ST version of MGR, and have been playing around with it.
- | Seems that this stuff could really shine in a multi-machine environment.
- | I used mgrterm to connect to my 3b1, and ran eyes, and it worked. It
- | followed my local mouse pointer! Now call me naive :-) But this is
- | real cool.
- |
- | I would like to start writing some stuff myself, but I am not much of a
- | programmer, so itll take a while.
- [ ... ]
-
- Well, despite my many postings and questions on the topic, I have
- found little or no support in the community for MGR. MGR requires
- a Hardware modification (called VIDPAL), which noone is producing
- anymore. And without it, it's just a pain to run... it's very
- slow in the shell mode, anyhow.
-
- Seeing the lack of support, which is really sad, I wouldn't spend
- too much effort developing for MGR. Perhaps someday it will be
- more popular... and hopefully someone capable will begin creating
- VIDPALS, or at least something that would work like it.
-
- I, too, had some plans for different programs with the MGR environment,
- however it just isn't worth the bother when essentially no one would
- benefit.
-
- Good luck.
-
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