Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:53:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg Message-ID: <507809.47793.qm@web36503.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <9EA6D425-7C39-445A-9935-CEE9D71D7DFF@mac.com> References: <01E3114E-02B1-44A2-A6B6-E0AE93A95E9A@earthlink.net> <6B25F4E32F59B195428730A7@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <646739.74431.qm@web36506.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <0776F7B0-AB3B-4224-8B97-E5058756F581@mac.com> <20110612202932.bc8e2842.freebsd@edvax.de> <9EA6D425-7C39-445A-9935-CEE9D71D7DFF@mac.com>
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=0A=0A=0A=0A________________________________=0A=0AFrom: Chuck Swiger <cswig= er@mac.com>=0ATo: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>=0ACc: FreeBSD Questions <fr= eebsd-questions@freebsd.org>=0ASent: Sun, June 12, 2011 2:43:16 PM=0ASubjec= t: Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg=0A=0A=0A=0AI stand correct= ed. Tab Window Manager it is....either way, I use it because it's =0Ajust p= lain simple and I don't really need all the whistles and bells that come = =0Awith the other WM's. I'm still stuck with using Windows because all my b= usiness =0Ais conducted there and it's got all the bells and whistles one w= ould need.=0A=0AOn Jun 12, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Polytropon wrote:=0A>> twm do= esn't stand for "Trivial Window Manager"-- it stands=0A>> for "Tom's Window= Manager" because it was written by Tom=0A>> LaStrange on Sun-3_35 or 3_50 = hardware back around X11R1.=0A> =0A> Without any further investigation and = research, my=0A> brain seems to remember that is's (also?) called=0A> "Tab = Window Manager". Is my brain wrong here? :-)=0A=0AI went by wikipedia to do= uble-check.=0A=0AI'm right about the original name.=A0 At some point after = twm was included in the =0AX11 core distribution, later developers decided = to rename it to "Tab Window =0AManager" because they'd changed so much code= .=A0 (If they'd done it with Tom's OK, =0Athen I don't have any concern; if= they'd just renamed it themselves without =0Adiscussion with the original = author, well, I'd find that a bit tacky.)=0A=0AI remember switching from uw= m? to twm around 1990 and finding the later vastly =0Amore tolerable.=A0 Bu= t I also largely switched from X11 to Display Postscript on =0ANEXTSTEP or = Sun's OpenWin (X11+Motif+DPS extension, IIRC) around then.=0A=0ARegards,=0A= -- =0A-Chuck=0A=0A_______________________________________________=0Afreebsd= -questions@freebsd.org mailing list=0Ahttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list= info/freebsd-questions=0ATo unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-question= s-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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