From: muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Subject: Re: Motif Public Domain?? Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1993 10:18:22 GMT
>> On Fri, 30 Jul 1993 21:37:01 GMT, sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve
>> Sheldon) said:
SS> I rather like Motif. The only other one that looks nearly as
SS> nice is Openlook. I use olwm on my Linux box, and have gotten
SS> to like that too.
SS> Don't suppose emory will let you select a different wm? Our
SS> systems here do. There are even some people that use twm and
SS> tvtwm(Gag!) :)
Even?!? I use ctwm, another derivative of twm. Maybe mwm looks nicer,
but the functionality of twm and derivatives is unmatched by mwm and
olwm (but gwm gets even further). twm is very flexible and
configurable, and the icon manager is very handy if you use many
windows on your screen. And, you can install it everywhere without
needing to pay for Motif, or to install many megabytes of OpenLook
libraries before. I work on many different machines and am very
attached to having a similar environment everywhere that I can install
in a few minutes.
-- _____________________________________________ Peter Mutsaers, Bunnik (Ut), the Netherlands.