>
> But I found a bunch of other window managers to try.  Unfortunately, I cannot
> compile them.  Why?  X11/xpm.h is missing.
> 
> Where can I find it?  If you suggest the NetBSD X11R6 include tarball, try again.
> 
> alan

This is something I have not yet understood. Virtually all wms ask
for xpm, and the base X distribution does not include it. This is
merely the X-pixmap library. It is at

ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/xpm-3.4j.tar.gz
	(libXpm.so.3.4)
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/xpm-4.7.tar.gz
	(libXpm.so.4.7)

These distributions will have the source and headers for the
library. Even if you had the header, you would not be able to link
any programs. You might as well get both libraries, and install
3.4 before 4.7. That way, you can do programs made for both major
versions.

You can get xview, for certain, but requiring some patching,
from

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/.25/FreeBSD/distfiles/xview3.2p1-X11R6.tar.gz

I personally find Open Look to be the only "good" wms out there.
When it gets used, it works right. But it also has a number of
problems, just like every wm. The interface just seems very clean
to me, and that's all. But it doesn't run for me on other machines
like it does on a sunos machine, and that's the major problem.

Choose whatever is good for you, and write for it.

peace,
	_john