Ugly Huge BSD Monster

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:45:53PM -0600 I heard the voice of
Brett Glass, and lo! it spake thus:
> At 08:30 PM 9/3/2003, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> 
> >I use ctwm.  It works great.  Far better than all that crap stuffed into
> >Gnome or KDE.  It does the two things a window manager is supposed to do;
> >manage my windows, and stay the hell outta my way.  And it's not GPL'd.
> 
> More information, please.

About which part?

As a WM, it's just what you'd expect from the name; a derivative of twm,
with the same flavor and some additional functionality.

As to the license, it's rather like the MIT license crossed with a
3-clause (1/2/4) BSD license.


I'm coming to the view that somebody needs to step back a bit, and try
assembling a "desktop environment" perhaps a bit richer[0] than twm and
fvwm and the like, though less cluttered[1] than KDE/Gnome, by assembling
and slightly blending existing components, rather than building it all
together.  I think there's room to profitably experiment between the
extremes.


[0] See also "cluttered"
[1] See also "richer"



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Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd at over-yonder.net
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      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"