Michael Peters wrote:
> 
>   Does anyone know where I can find a virtual windows manager?  After a
> lot of poking around I can't seem to find the source for one.  Is there
> one precompiled somewhere and I'm just missing it?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> -MDP
> 
> Man invented alcohol,
> God invented grass.
> Who do you trust?

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If you're a hacker, check out gwm, which is available from the koala
project at INRIA. (www.inria.fr). GWM, currently version 1.8, is
absolutely configurable. It uses a scripting language based on scheme to
decide how things ought to be drawn. There is a package that is included
with it that designs virtual windows managed sort of like mwm. I found
it to draw faster than fvwm2-95, but that's just me. Also, I have no
respecct for a window manager whose interface mimics Win95.

OLVWM is available in source and in certain binary forms from Sun. The
source, shaken for linux, exists at sunsite, and there is also a freebsd
port of it if you want some info on the required patches. Fetch the
directory: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/ports-current/x11/olvwm

This directory has a patch for the freebsd version and a makefile that
has the distribution site and all,
ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/olvwm4.tar.Z, and its related patch:
olvwm4.Patch01.Z. 

Olvwm requires libXview, which is available in
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/xview3.2p1-X11R6.tar.gz. This actually includes
most of the xview distribution, which is kind of cool anyway, and
include things like the cmdtool and the shelltool.

olvwm i've found to draw really well, etc.

-John