On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Andy Arbon wrote:
> Hello, > > I was having a discussion with a mate about our respective choices of > window manager and it occurred to me that I know very little about where > FVWM came from.. > > Who started it? When? What was it based on? I'd find info on this sort > of thing quite interesting if anyone knows anything about it. The guy who started it was Rob Nation. The earliest mentioning I could find on usenet dates to July of 1993. The code was (as far as I know) based on twm. It was designed to mimic mwm (Motif's WM), (but actually IMHO the default window border handles look a bit like IRIX's 4dwm). // Marcus > > Perhaps it'd be worthy of a page on the FVWM website too? > > Cheers, > > -- > Andy > > > -- > Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. > To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a > message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
