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Let's also not forget the unsung hero of the "let's pretend we're NextStep" saga, "bowman" (a fvwm hack). A much shorter shelf-life than its successors AfterSte

• peatmoss 12y ago
  I had entirely forgotten that one. In fact, I was having a hard time remembering what AfterStep was called. IIRC AfterStep also started as a set of FVWM or maybe FVWM 2 modifications.
• talideon 12y ago
  IIRC, that's because bowman became AfterStep.
  • mhd 12y ago
    Yep, the main abrahamic lineage of X11 window managers. uwm begat twm which begat fvwm which begat bowman... For quite a while, the window manager space was really dominated by rewrites and adaptions. Not quite sure what the first window managers of GNOME and the K(ool)DE were based on, but I wouldn't be surprised if some familiar names turned up... An important second clan would be the 9wm ancestry. lwm, aewm and probably a lot of the tiling wm namespace. Jeepers, I remember being excited when Xaw3D came out. This thread is really making me feel old, and goshdarnit, Pentium Pros with Slackware didn't happen that long ago..
• bnolsen 12y ago
  i switched from fvwm95 then to afterstep and then settled on windowmaker for my work systems. Come to think of it I ran enlightenment when I had dual sony trinitrons since that supported virtual desktops per head with xinerama. When I got my first lcd (a dell widescreen) I went back to windowmaker. laptops and systems others may use (at home) get xfce.