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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: Fvwm version 0.99 X11 Window Manager
Date: 28 Oct 1993 00:08:18 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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Message-ID: <2an2hi$48q@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <NATION.93Oct25155155@bailey.sanders.lockheed.com>
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In article <NATION.93Oct25155155@bailey.sanders.lockheed.com>,
Robert Nation <nation@bailey.sanders.lockheed.com> wrote:
>Fvwm release 0.99 has been uploaded to spcot.sanders.com
>(192.233.11.10) as file /pub/fvwm/fvwm-0.99-src.tar.z.
>
>Fvwm is a light-weight window manager which provides a simple virtual
>desktop, a 3-D look for windows decorations, and color icons.
>
>Memory consumption for Fvwm is about 1/2 to 2/3 that of twm.
>Fvwm is targeted at machines with too little memory, at laptops
>on which mouse usage may be awkward, and at users who prefer the appearance
>of the Motif window manager to twm's appearance.

Now available as a binary package from FreeBSD.cdrom.com in the packages
directory. 

Thanks go to Rob for such a fine package that it's slowly replacing ALL
WM at the University. :-)


Nate
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