From: Frank T. Kang (frank@owlnet.rice.edu)
Date: 08/29/92


From: frank@owlnet.rice.edu (Frank T. Kang)
Subject: Re: how to run gwm instead of twm
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 06:02:36 GMT

In article <HDy9PB3w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS STAFF) writes:

>Change the line at the end from twm to gwm. Gwm has a mwm emulation mode
>that I think looks great, but I can't get the menus to pop-up.

Yes, it looks pretty good, but on my 8meg 386/40, performance is noticeably
worse than using twm. It takes more memory and screen activity feels much
less snappy. I'll stick with twm(which doesn't look too bad when decent
fonts are used like in the SLS dist.)

Frank