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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:29:32 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg
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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? :-)


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