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Possibly a slight naming conflict there, given, AFAIU, xwm was the first wm https://web.archive.org/web/20020609220837/http://www.xwinman.org/archive/xwm/ http

Possibly a slight naming conflict there, given, AFAIU, xwm was the first wm https://web.archive.org/web/20020609220837/http://www.xwinman.org/archive/xwm/ https://web.archive.org/web/20020609220837/http://www.xwinma... http://tech-insider.org/unix/research/acrobat/860201-a.pdf http://tech-insider.org/unix/research/acrobat/860201-a.pdf After which there was xnwmm http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/athena/system/x10r4/doc/mann/xnwm.n http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/athena/system/x10r4/doc/mann/xnwm... Then uwm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrix_Window_Manager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrix_Window_Manager

mcpcpc 6y ago
Oh man. I should have known, lol. Well I may need to consider a "rebranding". Thanks for pointing this out Any other advice for checking for naming conflicts? I used github, google and repology.org and was excited when I saw no hits on the name. =S
- kjs3 6y ago
  If I google for list of X11 window managers "xwm", there's a reference in the first hit. The quotes around xwm are useful to screen out false positives.
  - mcpcpc 6y ago
    ah. well my google-foo sucks. wikipedia even has an article. again, i appreciate you pointing this out. not sure what i will do yet though. :(
    - em-bee 6y ago
      run a naming contest: xwm2 x2wm xxwm newxwm xcbwm ywm wwm notxwm nxwm nwm tinyxwm txwm txfwm xcbfwm
      - mcpcpc 6y ago
        oh god. commence operation “spam the random name generator”! Taking a closer look at the original xwm, this project has long since been dead. i wonder if it would be fair to say the acronym itself could be used, as tribute to the original? or is that too confusing?
- MR4D 6y ago
  Go for “0xwm”, so it could be “Naught XWM”. Naught ~ not. Sorry for the bad pun.