Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:29:32 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg Message-ID: <20110612202932.bc8e2842.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <0776F7B0-AB3B-4224-8B97-E5058756F581@mac.com> References: <01E3114E-02B1-44A2-A6B6-E0AE93A95E9A@earthlink.net> <6B25F4E32F59B195428730A7@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <646739.74431.qm@web36506.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <0776F7B0-AB3B-4224-8B97-E5058756F581@mac.com>
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On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:25:02 -0700, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > 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. Without any further investigation and research, my brain seems to remember that is's (also?) called "Tab Window Manager". Is my brain wrong here? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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