Is it only 10 years? feels like longer ;-)
I started using Unix in the days of proprietary-hardware CAD systems. When the
industry's software mostly started running on Sun equipment, and a little later
Sun supported X11 with Openlook, a sysadmin turned me on to MWM as an
alternative. I think I started using FVWM in about 1994, and even then, like
most TWM descendents I guess, it was pretty stable. I liked it because it was
versatile, configurable down to the pixel, and had a single, reasonably sensible
configuration file that I could play with to my geeky heart's content. I used
CTWM for awhile because for a time, you could do more with the titlebars, but I
was running used Sun equipment at home and had performance problems. So I went
back to FVWM and found that not only was it immensely faster on my creaky
SparcStation, but it had made strides in designability in the meantime. Then,
when the MultiPixmap style was added, almost all my wishes came true (many
thanks to Suzanne.)
It's only in the last year that I finally switched to Linux at home. But I
still run FVWM on my Sun at work, as well as on my MacOSX machine on the rare
occasions when I run a rooted X server on it (alas, the Fink distribution is
still version 2.4.x)
Happy Birthday to the best of all window managers!
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Dorothy Robinson
http://www.twobarleycorns.net
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Received on Sat May 31 2003 - 22:24:26 BST