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- From: ede@kadabra.osf.org (Ted Ede)
- Subject: Re: (emulating the) Motif Window Manager on Linux??
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.131543.5296@osf.org>
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <zhao.714325741@unixg.ubc.ca> <1992Aug21.015103.4965@ennews.eas.asu.edu> <1992Aug21.052341.7138@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 13:15:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug21.052341.7138@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) writes:
- >You just need one file from disk #15: mwm[something].taz. download
- >this file from tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/SLS/15/mwm...taz, rename it
- >to mwm...tar.Z on your linux disk, uncompress and untar from the root
- >directory, create the directory /usr/lib/shared, within that directory
- >make a symbolic link from /usr/lib/X11 to /usr/lib/shared/X11, change
- >your "exec [t | olv]wm" line to "exec gwm -qf mwm" in your .xinitrc
- >file, and you are ready to run gwm.
-
- The the motif window manager is a licensable tool. Disk 15 contain gwm,
- which can emulate the look and feel of mwm and other wm's.
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- If you want the real motif mwm and libraries, you'll have to convince
- a binary vendor to port it to linux. I have some friends that work
- for such a vendor. Do anyone think it would be worthwhile to port
- motif to Linux. Considering the OSF would get the first $40 of the
- sale, how much would you be willing to pay for a copy?
-
- >On a similar note, could someone point the way to a postscript viewer
- >for x windows or linux? I downloaded the postscript docs to gwm, but
- >have no way of printing them. I would like to at least read them
- >online so I can learn how to customize gwm/mwm to my own tastes (getting
- >rid of the "lock to grid" positioning of icons, changing the menus, etc.)
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- ghostscript and ghostview, of course. Availalble in source from your
- favorite gnu site. Doesn't appear to be built for linus.
-
- Ted Ede -- ted@world.std.com -- on contract at the Open Software Foundation
- -- All views expressed are mine unless explicitly stated otherwise --
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