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- From: peter@fission.gatech.edu (Peter Halvorson)
- Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
- Subject: Re: Best WM?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.050605.6252@sm.sony.co.jp>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 05:06:05 GMT
- Sender: onoe@sm.sony.co.jp (Atsushi Onoe)
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- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 22:01:32 GMT
- Message-Id: <78902@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- References: <1992Dec30.173001.11601@mail.cornell.edu>, <7357@tivoli.UUCP>
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- In article <7357@tivoli.UUCP> taylor@foraker.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Eric Taylor) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec30.173001.11601@mail.cornell.edu>, phydeaux@guru.med.cornell.edu (Dave Weingart) writes:
- >|> Loathing twm, and before I spend hours ftp'ing and hacking into shape
- >|> a better window manager, which should I go for? Running R4 under
- >|> A/UX, if that's significant.
- >If you are a sun-phreak you will probably like olwm.
- >However, few window managers are free.
-
- Actually mwm is one of the few window managers which isn't free, olwm is
- freely available as part of the xview package. There are dozens of free
- window managers ( well more than one dozen anyway).
-
- There are a few variants which support virtual screens, and are otherwise
- like their parent program. I can't offer much advise with regard to the
- original question, because I happen to like twm ( I've already spent the
- hours hacking it into shape), I just wish it had a better control
- language to allow me to have the menu scripts responds to program return
- codes, etc ( any hints out there?).
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- Peter Halvorson -- Georgia Institute of Technology -- Nuclear Engineering
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