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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!koriel!male.EBay.Sun.COM!male.ebay!dtm From: dtm@Ebay.Sun.COM (Duane T. Mun) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: OpenLook Windows Date: 09 Aug 1993 05:57:50 GMT Organization: Live freely...get GNU'd Lines: 26 Message-ID: <DTM.93Aug8225750@booyaa.Ebay.Sun.COM> References: <REPAYNE.93Aug8132021@iguana.syr.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: booyaa.ebay.sun.com In-reply-to: repayne@iguana.syr.EDU's message of Sun, 8 Aug 93 13:24:37 EDT "Rob" == Rob <repayne@iguana.syr.EDU> writes: Rob> I am thinking about getting another drive to add software to my Rob> system, and would like to know, before I do, if OpenLook Windows Rob> is available for any of the *BSD, or BSDi, in a free form? I Rob> know, I ask for quite a bit. 8^) If so, where is it ftpable from? Rob> I may just be looking for the wrong thing with archie. Thanks. OpenLook is a specification for the _look-and-feel_ of a windowing system. I'm assuming you're talking about Sun's OpenWindows environment. Its based on the X Window System with thier own extensions for display postscript, and probably some other stuff. So, when you say you want _OpenLook Windows_, I'm assuming you want X, which is available from many sites. There have also been several ports (of the X server) to the Intel platform, check comp.windows.x.i386unix, since it really depends on the type of graphics board you have. If you're talking about the OpenLook window manager, I believe that's freely avaliable, check export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib. BTW, if you're willing to try something new, give ctwm a try. --