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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: mwm for Xfree Message-ID: <1994Aug3.234143.22096@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <31on66$6gm@sundog.tiac.net> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 1994 23:41:43 GMT Lines: 28 Brian McGovern (mcgovern@spoon.beta.com) wrote: : Has anyone ported either mwm or gwm for Xfree for FreeBSD 1.1.5? Twm is nice, : but I miss the familiarity of mwm, and I can't get the standard distribution : of gwm to compile (nor have I spent considerable time on it). : thanks, : Brian You have to purchase mwm. I grabbed a ported version of gwm off of the old defunct ref.tfs.com about a year and a half ago. I found it to be extremely huge and very slow. Your best bet is to grab fvwm from spcot.sanders.com It does a better motif emulation than gwm and is far smaller and quicker. It also provides a virtual desktop as well. While you are on spcot.sanders.com you should also grab rxvt as well. It is a slimmed down and speeded up xterm alike. Using both fvwm and rxvt will decrease your memory usage and speed up your X performance. They both port to FreeBSD nearly out of the box. If you run into trouble e-mail me. Steve -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- stever@babbage.cba.csuohio.edu "What's better than a free OS?" " A free OS with source." FreeBSD at freebsd.cdrom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------