On 10/28/10 02:47 PM, Peter Tribble wrote:
On the one hand I like playing with all the fancy new desktop
environments, while on the other hand I can get quite nostalgic.
Following the nostalgia, I've recently built and packaged up some
of the older window managers - from the relatively rich Enlightenment
and AfterStep, through Window Maker, some of the twm derivatives,
the modern but minimalist pekwm, and even the old Ardent window
manager.
I also tried to get piewm working, and ended up simply adding piewm
support to the latest tvtwm source rather than try and work out why
piewm itself wouldn't work for me, generating a merge I call ptvtwm.
Anyway, enough chatter. Downloads here:
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/x11-wm.html
These are SVR4 packages, so they will work on Solaris 10. You can
install them on OpenSolaris distributions as well, and binary
compatibility will make sure they continue to work.
I've supplied dtlogin and gdm integration for all of them. I believe
these builds to largely work, and use them regularly, but can't
guarantee them to be entirely bug free.
Enjoy!
(And let me know what you think, good or bad.)
Window Maker and AfterStep installed fine on OpenIndiana though the
latter required gnome-base-libs (in openindiana repository) and
medialib (in opensolaris repository).
AfterStep initially didn't show up in GDM. Had to remove or comment out
the NoDisplay=True line in AfterStep.desktop.
It's been awhile since I've been in those two environments, especially
ASTep (years it seems). Everything is much speedier than being in GNOME.
Thanks for putting these out there. I'll be testing the others soon.
--
==ANIME SENSHI==
Marc D. Williams
http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/ -- DOS Internet & Tandy 1000
http://www.digisensei.info/win3/ -- Win3.x Makeover
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