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  1. UWM? by Screwtape · · Score: 4 · on Interview With Tom LaStrange (The T In twm)

    There's something uglier than twm? I'd hardly credit it.

    Doing a quick google search, I turned up the Unix Desktop Environment's window manager, which looks rather nice, but hunting a bit more I found the uwm source code at, surprise surprise, the PLiG window manager page.

    Unfortunately it doesn't compile immediately here on RedHat 6.0, (conflicting definitions of wchar_t in glibc and XFree86, of all things), so I can't post screenshots. If someone *does* manage to get it to compile and work (any experts on porting from X10 here?) why not post a reply and keep us all informed? :)

  2. UWM? by Screwtape · · Score: 4 · on Interview With Tom LaStrange (The T In twm)

    There's something uglier than twm? I'd hardly credit it.

    Doing a quick google search, I turned up the Unix Desktop Environment's window manager, which looks rather nice, but hunting a bit more I found the uwm source code at, surprise surprise, the PLiG window manager page.

    Unfortunately it doesn't compile immediately here on RedHat 6.0, (conflicting definitions of wchar_t in glibc and XFree86, of all things), so I can't post screenshots. If someone *does* manage to get it to compile and work (any experts on porting from X10 here?) why not post a reply and keep us all informed? :)

  3. hmm. by Lonesmurf · · Score: 4 · on Interview With Tom LaStrange (The T In twm)

    I went looking for some screenshots of TWM as I had never used it (went from CLI to Enlightenment.. :). I found this page with lots of screenshots.

    Of particular interest was this. Is it just me, or does this stike you as vaguely reminiscent of BeOS?

    Rami
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  4. hmm. by Lonesmurf · · Score: 4 · on Interview With Tom LaStrange (The T In twm)

    I went looking for some screenshots of TWM as I had never used it (went from CLI to Enlightenment.. :). I found this page with lots of screenshots.

    Of particular interest was this. Is it just me, or does this stike you as vaguely reminiscent of BeOS?

    Rami
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  5. T R O L L Alert! (plus iPaq+Linux+Quake) by opkool · · Score: 1 · on More Fun To Be Had With the iPaq

    Attention!

    The site ( http://www.comp-u-geek.net/ ) linked to by the top post of this thread My favourite site from AdminMan is a TROLL site!

    It opens lots and lots of windows with not-my-kind-of-explicit-s-e-x-images.

    Do not loose your time with it.

    Why there's all this stuf going on at Slashdot comments?I do not understand.

    Slashdot provides great hi-tech news. It's all about sharing information, being nice and learn a little bit more every day.

    BTW, the iPaq hand-help small-computer (it's too cool to name it only "agenda") looks very good. I saw one using twm . It looked terrific!

    Now, we need the Quake-for-iPaq, but running under iPaq-Linux this time. That will be something!

    Have a nive Week-End!

  6. Fine - a better link. by Booker · · Score: 2 · on Mac OS X Desktop and GUI Design

    For a good overview of what's available, try this page.

    (although it seems to be down at the moment...?)
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  7. Linux Accessibility by bendawg · · Score: 1 · on Basic Linux Systems for the Home User?

    I found this wonderful link which I don't know if anyone has mentioned.

    This package has some cool features like MouseKeys, Magnification,
    and on the fly Video Mode Changing from a control panel. It is aimed at helping people with disabilities to use Linux, but it might be helpful in this situation as well.
    I found this at http://cmos-eng.rehab.uiuc.edu/accessx/

    A link which I also posted about earlier, but I feel should be mentioned again is the window managers page at http://www.plig.org/xwinman
    This page has screenshots and ratings of what different window managers can do.

  8. window managers by bendawg · · Score: 1 · on Basic Linux Systems for the Home User?

    You might want to check out the site
    http://www.plig.org/xwinman
    It's got a lot of comparisons of different window
    managers.
    I personally prefer wmx, but I wouldn't suggest it for this as there is no way to do button panels.

  9. Some to try: by BadlandZ · · Score: 2 · on Enlightenment now KDE compliant
    Go to plig.org to check a few out. I would recommend BlackBox or WM2 for something that can look nice, and still not suck up resources on a 486.

    The diffrence between a "window manager" and a "Desktop environment" is that the "desktop environment" includes a window manager, as well as a bunch of other applications that use the same widget styles.

  10. Re:What's wrong with FLTK? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Ask Slashdot: What is the Best GUI Framework?
    Here's a site where the author does side-by-side comparisons between the
    many GUI development environments/kits available. After reviewing this
    and reading whatever other comments I could find, I settled on FLTK
    myself. Mind you: I haven't done anything with it yet :-). (Other than
    install it and fool with it a bit.) And I am *not* an experienced GUI
    designer.

    For my near-term needs, I find Perl/Tk to be quite adequate. But I do
    intend to look at using FLTK for some possible projects.

    I chose FLTK for its "fast, light" aspect and for its cross-platform-ness
    (runs on Ms-Win* as well as *nix). I chose Perl/Tk because it gave me a
    graphical front-end to Perl when desired.

    Somebody once commented that FLTK "looked ugly." I wonder what they meant
    by that.

    Side note: I sure wish the *nix community would get it together wrt
    cut-n-past and drag-n-drop, don't you?

  11. Window managers: Attacking personal liberties? by Ptolemarch · · Score: 1 · on Interview: The Internet Political Experts Respond

    You know, I'm not so sure that you necessarily need to correct "CDE" to "CDA". I mean, sure, the CDA was terrible, and I was gleeful when it was struck down, but after having used Enlightenment, I personally find CDE to be pretty darned oppressive, too.

    <Chuckle.>

  12. Window managers: Attacking personal liberties? by Ptolemarch · · Score: 1 · on Interview: The Internet Political Experts Respond

    You know, I'm not so sure that you necessarily need to correct "CDE" to "CDA". I mean, sure, the CDA was terrible, and I was gleeful when it was struck down, but after having used Enlightenment, I personally find CDE to be pretty darned oppressive, too.

  13. Whats CDE? by eponymous+cohort · · Score: 2 · on CDE vs Gnome

    CDE is the standard desktop environment for commercial Unix workstations. It's based around Motif.

    You can find more information and screenshots at this page.

    KDE has little to do with CDE.