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From: schweikh@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Any nice X-windows manager ?
Date: 16 Jan 1996 09:34:23 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
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In article <DL8rvD.r3@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de>,
Thomas Graichen <graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>2-King (wleong@sfsu.edu) wrote:
>
>: Hi,
>:   Can someone recommend a nice windows manager besides twm ?
>i think fvwm is small & very beautiful

If your emphasis is on 'nice' meaning colourful,
I recommend ctwm. The interpolated menu colors
are a screamer. It also has animated buttons,
XPM bitmaps, lots of 3d effects, virtual screens
etc, etc. It's reasonably fast like any twm descendant.
And it's configurable to the max.

Bye, Jens
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