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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!wupost!rice!frank
- From: frank@owlnet.rice.edu (Frank T. Kang)
- Subject: Re: how to run gwm instead of twm
- Message-ID: <BtqE4D.42E@rice.edu>
- Sender: news@rice.edu (News)
- Organization: Rice University
- References: <HDy9PB3w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 06:02:36 GMT
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- In article <HDy9PB3w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS STAFF) writes:
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- >Change the line at the end from twm to gwm. Gwm has a mwm emulation mode
- >that I think looks great, but I can't get the menus to pop-up.
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- Yes, it looks pretty good, but on my 8meg 386/40, performance is noticeably
- worse than using twm. It takes more memory and screen activity feels much
- less snappy. I'll stick with twm(which doesn't look too bad when decent
- fonts are used like in the SLS dist.)
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- Frank
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