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Date:      Tue, 9 Feb 1999 23:21:12 +1100
From:      Jim Mock <jim@corp.au.triax.com>
To:        Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au>
Cc:        Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: WindowMaker
Message-ID:  <19990209232111.A28908@corp.au.triax.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990209231222.A28805@corp.au.triax.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902081417210.14869-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> <19990209112130.17119.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> <19990209231222.A28805@corp.au.triax.com>

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On Tue, 09 Feb 1999 at 23:12:23 +1100, Jim Mock wrote:

[snip..]

> > For reasons that aren't important here, they want to use the
> > mouse rather than compound keyboard tricks.  That's their
> > choice, but it all adds up to windowmaker not being a suitable
> > tool.  I was just curious to see if it had perhaps adopted a
> > pager for this kind of user, because the rest of the program is
> > really very nice and would have been a good choice.  I'm not
> > about to go badmouthing it because it doesn't do what these
> > people need, I was just curious about its current direction.
> >
> 
> I don't know of anything planned in the development itself, but
> there's a dockapp pager (why not, everything else exists as a
> dockapp, even tetris =)) that you might find useful.  You can get it
> from http://www.linuxbox.com/~bac/
> 
> I haven't tried compiling it, but I will in the morning, and if I
> can get it working, I'll submit a port of it.
>

I take that back.  I just tried it, and with a minor patch to the
Makefile, it worked.  I'll submit the port tomorrow morning.

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