Re: [iPAQ] UWM -- the unnamed window manager

how about RWM the re-named window manager :)
...
nope thats gone :

AWM: Ardent Window Manager
BWM: Blue/Bat/Boris's Window Manager
CWM: Cambridge Window Manager
DWM: Desktop Window Manager
EWM: eWM
FWM: FWM/FVWM
GWM: Generic Window Manager
HWM: Hummingbird window Manager
IWM: INterviews window manager/ion window manager
JWM: Jws Window Manager
KWN: KDE window manager
LWM: Lightweight window manager
MWM: Motif Window manager
NWM: Nooted window manager ???
OWM: Open Window Manager
PWM: PWM (ion's daddy)
QWM: Seems vaguely unused (but would be an alusion to Qt :)
RWM: Reality Window Manager
SWM: Small Window Manager
TWM: Tom's window manager
UWM: Universal/Ultimate/Ultrix Window manager
VWM: Virtual Window Manager
XWM: must be the daddy :)
YWM: Y-window system Window Manager
ZWM: Le Z window manager ???

you can see where a window manager writer might go astray.....

No-Named window manager?

we need better utf8 support in order to extend the TLA possibilitites...

owen

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Keith Packard wrote:

>
> Around 8 o'clock on Jan 3, Jim Gettys wrote:
>
> > I know I'm showing my age, but UWM as the name for an X Window manager
> > is already bound: please pick a different name ASAP.
>
> I, personally, found the name amusing -- probably more so because it was
> chosen at random. Ah, for the days of a ginsu window manager. I wonder
> how many modern application would survive running under uwm. Hmm...
>
> Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team Compaq Cambridge Research Lab
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