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From: Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Virtual windown managers
Date: 16 Jul 1995 06:05:08 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp
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Just as a followup to those interested. I managed to
get tvtwm and vtwm and fvwm. The following is a small
summary of my results:
tvtwm: needs xpm from ftp.x.org and is OK but has some mysterious
bugs like a new xterm will somehow drop you into vi
with the same file as you were editing in the
previous xterm: very strange !!. There also seem
to be numerous version of this src so if at first
you dont succeed: get another source. Biggest
drawback is NO AUTOPAN
vtwm: really wantd this because it has the "autopan" feature
i.e. move the mouse to the edge of the screen and it
automatically pans the virtual screen. But no matter
what I tried could not get this to work. It compiled
and ran but no windows at all showed only the X background.
fvwm: could not get this up either but didn't try really hard.
Thanks for the replies
Jon
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