Richard Bown wrote:
> BTW on a related OT thread I saw slashdot carrying the flag for some
> one-pixel WM.
Yeah, perplexing that. evilwm has been around for years, it's
hardly the last word in window-manager design, and it's one of
at least a dozen closely-related window managers of which you
could probably pick any one, if that was your thing. Actually a
family tree of these things might be quite interesting (to me and,
ooh, about one other person). Let's draw one:
xwm, wm, uwm (X10/X11R1/2)
.
.
twm (X11R3) awm gwm (lisp)
|
+---+--+-------+ olwm (Sun) mwm
| | | | |
tvtwm vtwm fvwm | +------+----+----+
| | olvwm | | |
piewm fvwm2 mvwm 4dwm (SGI) vuewm (HP) etc
|
+-----+------+
| . |
fvwm95 . afterstep
. windowmaker icewm
enlightenment
9wm (David Hogan)
|
+-----------+------+--+-----+------+
| | | | |
wm2 (me) lwm aewm w9wm larswm etc
| |
wmx aewm++
alloywm blackbox
evilwm kwm |
maewm fluxbox
etc, etc, etc
metacity sawfish
and probably a load of others. Hmm. OK, maybe that wasn't all that
interesting. wm2 (Oct 1996) predates all the other 9wm-derived ones
except possibly lwm. It was also the only window manager I know of
at that date that was written in C++ (9wm was in C -- I used very
little 9wm code literally in wm2, but borrowed an awful lot in
principle). And it's _still_ the only one to use those wacky
sideways floating tabs. Can't think why.
Apparently the author of 9wm died a couple of months ago -- I was
rather shocked to learn (from that Slashdot thread, in fact). See a
lot of someone else's code, and you begin to think you know them.
Chris
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