From: ede@kadabra.osf.org (Ted Ede) Subject: Re: (emulating the) Motif Window Manager on Linux?? Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 13:15:43 GMT
In article <1992Aug21.052341.7138@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) writes:
>You just need one file from disk #15: mwm[something].taz. download
>this file from tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/SLS/15/mwm...taz, rename it
>to mwm...tar.Z on your linux disk, uncompress and untar from the root
>directory, create the directory /usr/lib/shared, within that directory
>make a symbolic link from /usr/lib/X11 to /usr/lib/shared/X11, change
>your "exec [t | olv]wm" line to "exec gwm -qf mwm" in your .xinitrc
>file, and you are ready to run gwm.
The the motif window manager is a licensable tool. Disk 15 contain gwm,
which can emulate the look and feel of mwm and other wm's.
If you want the real motif mwm and libraries, you'll have to convince
a binary vendor to port it to linux. I have some friends that work
for such a vendor. Do anyone think it would be worthwhile to port
motif to Linux. Considering the OSF would get the first $40 of the
sale, how much would you be willing to pay for a copy?
>On a similar note, could someone point the way to a postscript viewer
>for x windows or linux? I downloaded the postscript docs to gwm, but
>have no way of printing them. I would like to at least read them
>online so I can learn how to customize gwm/mwm to my own tastes (getting
>rid of the "lock to grid" positioning of icons, changing the menus, etc.)
ghostscript and ghostview, of course. Availalble in source from your
favorite gnu site. Doesn't appear to be built for linus.
Ted Ede -- ted@world.std.com -- on contract at the Open Software Foundation
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