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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Window Managers
Date: 18 Aug 1995 05:18:46 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <40vv8l$f9q@cmcl2.nyu.edu>, Joseph Steinberg <steinber@slinky.NYU.EDU> wrote:
>
>I am running twm. I am looking to get a more Motif-type look (min & 
>maxbuttons etc.). Is there a free window manager out there that will do 
>it. Dows fwm do it?

    ctwm is an excellent choice, since it gives you both the flat-but-
fast twm-style windows, or nifty 3D window borders and gadgets.  You
can even have 3D animated title bar buttons.  That's what really did
it for me.  ;-)
-- 
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org