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From: gancarz@decvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Exotic Interface Query
Message-ID: <35@decvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Apr-87 18:07:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  6 18:07:26 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 8-Apr-87 03:22:23 EST
Reply-To: gancarz@decvax.UUCP (Mike Gancarz)
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Organization: Ultrix Engineering Group, Digital Equipment Corp.
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Keywords: keyboard, window manager, uwm


It wasn't long after uwm was released before I hacked up 'twm'.  Twm
is a kind of companion for uwm that takes window manager functions as
command line input.  It's great for aliasing f.inconify to function keys
and the like.

I suppose you could make a case for adding the functionality to uwm, but
twm is small and  efficient because it doesn't have all the extra interactive
stuff that uwm provides.

Where can you get twm?  Good question.  The intent (not commitment) is
to make it part of DEC's next Ultrix-32W distribution.  That won't help
you much if you're running on another vendor's hardware.  I don't know
whether it will be put in the public domain or not.  I guess that means
that I'd have to test it on something other than a VAX. :-)

I think Jim (Gettys) has the right idea:  Scream loud enough and you'll see
that kind of functionality appear in the X11 window managers--which it
should.

--Mike