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Date:      Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:25:02 -0700
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com>
Cc:        John or Judy Hixson <johnorjudy@earthlink.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg
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On Jun 12, 2011, at 4:40 AM, Bill Tillman wrote:
> I have installed and configured Xorg many times on several different machines. 
> When it installs it comes with twm (Trivial Window Manager) [ ... ]

twm doesn't stand for "Trivial Window Manager"-- it stands for "Tom's Window Manager" because it was written by Tom LaStrange on Sun-3_35 or 3_50 hardware back around X11R1.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck




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