From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 11 15:58:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA20611 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:58:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from digital.netvoyage.net (root@digital.netvoyage.net [205.162.154.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA20606 Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:58:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bogawa@localhost) by digital.netvoyage.net (8.6.13/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA09613; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:57:31 -0700 Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:57:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryan Ogawa at Work To: Richard Chang cc: Satoshi Asami , hasty@rah.star-gate.com, ports@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Lesstif (motif compatible) package. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, Richard Chang wrote: > On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, Satoshi Asami wrote: > > > * > olvwm or something like it should be part of the OPEN Look toolkit. > > * > > > * > Long long time we had all this stuff running on FreeBSD. > > * > > * I ran FreeBSD since 1.0GAMMA but does olvwm look like motif/fvwm > > * in any way since both of these allow hitting alt-F7/F8(fvwm) and > > * alt-tab(motif) to go to the next window.... What window manager does > > * XFree86 come with? > > > > Guys, please look at the ports collection. Xview toolkit and olvwm > > are both in there and have been working fine for quite some time. > > > > By the way, if you want a mwm lookalike, go for fvwm, and for an (HP) > > vuewm lookalike, ctwm. > > Do all of these windows managers have a way on the keyboard to > switch between windows? I can't talk about others, but fvwm 1 does. It can be more erratic than the one in MS Windows (which works according to a pretty good system, actually), but it's bound by default to Alt-F7 and Alt-F8... I also wish Circulate-Up and Circulate-Down were inverses of each other. That would make me happy. bryan > > Richard > > Bryan K. Ogawa Questions or Problems with NetVoyage? help@netvoyage.net Check out the NetVoyage HelpWeb at..