[640] in athena10
Re: set skip_foo; window managers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Tue Dec 2 14:42:31 2008
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:35:39 -0500
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
Perhaps we should scan Athena lockers for:
dash users
mwm users
twm users
and find out the scope of the need?
-Bill
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On Dec 2, 2008, at 2:33 PM, andrew m. boardman wrote:
>
> I'm fairly low-opinion on most of the skip_* questions (and agree with
> you on the rest), but for this:
>
>> Neither twm nor mwm are installed by default under Athena 10, and
>> they're not in the windowmangers locker because they were always
>> in the
>> release. Should we install twm and motif-clients for
>> debathena-workstation and debathena-cluster?
>
> There seems to be a small but extant user population, and they're
> really
> small, so I'm in favor of adding them.
