Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!math.ksu.edu!tar From: tar@math.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: tvtwm patchlevel 6 available Message-ID: <1991Jun14.010121.16472@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Date: 14 Jun 91 01:01:21 GMT References: <9106131641.AA19511@lyre.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (The News Guru) Organization: Kansas State University Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: hilbert.math.ksu.edu swick@athena.mit.EDU (Ralph Swick) writes: [ ... ] >Can anyone tell me why I should want to suffer through *wmxlate/vroot.h/ >non-interleavable_nailed_windows_and_un-nailed_windows rather than what >seems to me to be the much more natural feeling provided by Williams >and Edmondson's vtwm? The advantage of tvtwm seems to be that it moves the overhead of the virtual desktop to the server, where vtwm forces every client to notice that they have moved (virtually). However, it takes a lot more memory in the server than vtwm. Personally, I prefer vtwm. I don't like my background pictures spread out over the entire virtual root window. :-) -- Tim Ramsey/system administrator/tar@math.ksu.edu/(913) 532-6750/2-7004 (FAX) Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS 66506-2602