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- From: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk (Michael!)
- Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
- Subject: Re: Best WM?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.055956.3758@sm.sony.co.jp>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 05:59:56 GMT
- Sender: onoe@sm.sony.co.jp (Atsushi Onoe)
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- Date: 1 Jan 93 14:37:54 GMT
- Message-Id: <7102@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- References: <1992Dec30.173001.11601@mail.cornell.edu>, <7357@tivoli.UUCP>, <78902@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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- In article <78902@hydra.gatech.EDU>, peter@fission.gatech.edu (Peter Halvorson) writes:
- |> 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?).
- |>
- |>
- |>
- |> Peter Halvorson -- Georgia Institute of Technology -- Nuclear Engineering
- |> (404) 894-8710
- |> peter@fission.gatech.edu -- ne201ph@prism.gatech.edu
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- have people tried claude's ctwm?
-
- CTWM(1) USER COMMANDS CTWM(1)
-
- NAME
- ctwm - Claude's twm for the X Window System
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- SYNTAX
- ctwm [-display dpy] [-s] [-f initfile] [-v]
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- DESCRIPTION
- Ctwm is a window manager for the X Window System. It is
- actually twm (Tab Window Manager) from the MIT X11 distribu-
- tion slightly modified to accomodate the use of several vir-
- tual screens (workspaces). It is heavily inspired from the
- Hewlett-Packard vuewm window manager.
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- Michael
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