Re: AfterSTep, A NeXT style Window Manager for X

[Peter Rottengatter <perot@pallas.amp.uni-hannover.de>]

On Fri, 31 May 1996, Peter Ross wrote:

> Here is info on AfterSTep,a freeware NeXT-style window manager for X windows.  
> Perhaps the source can be modified to be a front end to MiNT and XaAES. 
> 
I don't think that's a sensible thing to do. A window manager under X 
does all the stuff the wind_* library of GEM functions should do (i.e. 
stuff that is already build into XaAES), and lacks a lot of features a 
real GEM desktop should provide. X and GEM are simply far too different 
on this matter.

> 
> http://woodward-52.rh.uchicago.edu/~frank/afterstep/
> 
> Here is a screenshot:
> 
> http://woodward-52.rh.uchicago.edu/~frank/afterstep/screenshots/screenshot-fsf.jpg
> 
However, there are Xwindow ports for MiNT/MiNTnet, and it's certainly 
good to have a variety of window managers available for it. So a port for 
X unter MiNT might be quite interesting.

Cheers  Peter

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