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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SMALL Xterms AND Window Managers
Date: 26 Oct 1993 21:11:56 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <CFIovw.MLn@ucdavis.edu>,
Jason Gabler <ccjason@othello.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>
>I was hoping someone had a list/review of different xterm rewrites and window
>managers that are smaller than xterm and twm.

I've been using fvwm for a window manager, and IMHO it's just as nice as any
I've tried before, with virtual windows, menu bars, etc..

Give it a shot.  I'll probably make a package of it available for FreeBSD
sometime when I get a little more time, but due to other priorities it
won't be today.



Nate

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