Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!stan!marvin!toml From: toml@marvin.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif Subject: Re: What's tvtwm? (was: Re: Does Motif do virtual desktops?) Message-ID: Date: 4 Mar 91 16:24:18 GMT References: <1991Mar4.023808.15734@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: toml@Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange) Distribution: comp Organization: Solbourne Computer, Inc. Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: hecht@theory.tn.cornell.edu's message of Mon, 4 Mar 1991 02:38:08 GMT > >Having just seen tvtwm, I would love to have the virtual desktop > >feature in mwm. Is this available? If not is it being considered? > > > > What is tvtwm? What is the virtual desktop feature? Is it what it sounds > like, something along the lines of AIX desktop? tvtwm is a modified version of twm that has the same virtual desktop features of swm (Solbourne Window Manager). Basically the virtual desktop can be thought of as a large root window that you can then pan around in. For a complete description of the virtual desktop you can read "swm: An X Window Manager Shell" in the Summer 1990 USENIX proceedings. tvtwm is available on expo.lcs.mit.ed in contrib/tvtwm.tar.Z -- Tom LaStrange toml@Solbourne.COM