[641] in athena10
Re: set skip_foo; window managers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quentin Smith)
Tue Dec 2 14:53:12 2008
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:52:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Quentin Smith <quentin@MIT.EDU>
To: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
cc: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>, Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>,
athena10@mit.edu
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I definitely think that twm should continue to be part of the release;
it's the canonical light-weight window manager. I was very surprised the
last time I tried to use it on an Athena 10 machine and found it missing.
--Quentin
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, William Cattey wrote:
> Perhaps we should scan Athena lockers for:
> dash users
> mwm users
> twm users
> and find out the scope of the need?
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> -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.
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