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From: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: using mwm and others with Xfree86 and 386bsd
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Date: 11 Sep 92 03:51:49 GMT
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In article <1992Sep10.143155.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>, 31005_1650@uwovax.uwo.ca
(Mark Bramwell 1-519-661-3714) writes:
> Has anyone been using any other window manager other than twm?
> 
> I have been using the Motif window manager and I like it better than
> twm.
> 
> I have heard of gwm, olvwm plus a few others, but have not tried them
> with Xfree86.

I've got tvtwm working.  Its primary advantage is that it has virtual
windows - I can have multiple "screens".  I like the look of mwm better also
but it does not have a virtual window facility.

I hear that gwm has the basics of virtual windows and has a mwm emulator
(gwm is programmable in a lisp like language).  It also is the recommended
was to get menus added to the Epoch editor.  I do not know how good it is.

-- 
Gary Browning        | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a
		     | great idea hits you, and just before you realize
                     | what is wrong with it.