Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!montnaro From: montnaro@spyder.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: X marks the suit Message-ID: Date: 4 Aug 90 17:32:52 GMT References: <9008031720.AA08100@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <9008040324.AA08838@efbhp1.draper.com> <24334@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development, Schenectady, NY Lines: 15 In-reply-to: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu's message of 4 Aug 90 16:55:01 GMT In article <24334@boulder.Colorado.EDU> grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) writes: I briefly used 'vtwm' (it crashed too much on my server) & I've played with the Solbourne virtual desk top feature, but I was under the impression that the virtual desktop concept was older than Solbournes implementation, in fact, that it dated back to XEROX PARC days. How do the vtwm and swm virtual destops compare to the xrooms program that was posted in the last year? I found rooms an interesting concept. Without having seen vtwm or swm, it sounds like rooms are about the same thing as virtual desktops. -- Skip (montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com)