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Tag: Window Manager

  • Some words on X windows

    I’ve recently been reading about and watching a few videos about the replacement for X called Wayland. Now I know very little about Wayland itself, but I’ve been a user of X since about 1999 when I first went to university, so I can’t help it, I feel moved to…

  • WindowMaker on FreeBSD

    This weekend I decided it was time to upgrade the software on the two functional Sun Sparc systems I have. I have FreeBSD on the newer of the two machines, and had been trying various window managers to use. The older Sparc has FVWM (recently upgraded to the latest version)…

  • Fvwm on NetBSD

    Back when I first started university the computer labs in the engineering faculty used to mostly be filled with a type of thin client called a X terminal connected to servers running Solaris. This was my first exposure to pretty much any kind of Unix at all. Fortunately having been…