Old window managers

[Colonel Panic]

Hi. Partly in an effort to save system resources, I've downloaded and installed a window manager which originally dates from 1992 - vtwm, which is a slight expansion of the legendary twm. It looks pretty spartan and retro but it does the job and offers all the features I really need (especially the ability to move, resize, raise and lower windows etc.)

Is there anyone else here who still uses an early window manager such as this one, or is everyone these days using the likes of KDE, Gnome, XFCE etc.?

[M0E-lnx]

I use twm every now and again over a NX or VNC session.

[Colonel Panic]

Thanks for replying. I couldn't find twm either in Vector 6.0 itself or as a download, which is one reason I turned to vtwm (though it does have slightly more features).

[M0E-lnx]

We have twm in the repos

root:# slapt-get --show twm
Package Name: twm
Package Mirror: http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-6.0/extra/
Package Priority: Default
Package Location: ./x
Package Version: 1.0.4-i486-1
Package Size: 76 K
Package Installed Size: 180 K
Package Required:   libICE >= 1.0.4-i486-1,libSM >= 1.0.3-i486-1,libX11 >= 1.1.4-i486-1,libXau >= 1.0.3-i486-1,libXdmcp >= 1.0.2-i486-1,libXext >= 1.0.4-i486-1,libXmu >= 1.0.4-i486-1,libXt >= 1.0.5-i486-1,libxcb >= 1.0-i486-2
Package Conflicts:
Package Suggests:
Package MD5 Sum:  43b2f6520672bf81b98aa61286cdc82d
Package Description:
 twm

 twm is part of X11.

 For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
 X.Org implementation of the X Window System), see their website:

 http://www.x.org



Package Installed: no

you need to enable the "extra" repo

[Colonel Panic]

Thanks again. I've downloaded it (twm) and may well give it a try later on.

Of the two I'll probably stick with vtwm though, being an evolutionary development of twm it has more features and it also uses very little extra memory.

[dima]

WindowMaker!