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- From: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: using mwm and others with Xfree86 and 386bsd
- Message-ID: <7eWy02MV21Pd01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 03:51:49 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.143155.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>
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- In article <1992Sep10.143155.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>, 31005_1650@uwovax.uwo.ca
- (Mark Bramwell 1-519-661-3714) writes:
- > Has anyone been using any other window manager other than twm?
- >
- > I have been using the Motif window manager and I like it better than
- > twm.
- >
- > I have heard of gwm, olvwm plus a few others, but have not tried them
- > with Xfree86.
-
- I've got tvtwm working. Its primary advantage is that it has virtual
- windows - I can have multiple "screens". I like the look of mwm better also
- but it does not have a virtual window facility.
-
- I hear that gwm has the basics of virtual windows and has a mwm emulator
- (gwm is programmable in a lisp like language). It also is the recommended
- was to get menus added to the Epoch editor. I do not know how good it is.
-
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- Gary Browning | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a
- | great idea hits you, and just before you realize
- | what is wrong with it.
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