RE: [iPAQ] window managers for the ipaq

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--George

> -----Original Message-----
> From: emddjf@chron.com [mailto:emddjf@chron.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 7:13 AM
> To: ipaq@handhelds.org
> Cc: emddjf@chron.com
> Subject: [iPAQ] window managers for the ipaq
>
>
>
> hi,
>
> I'm working on putting together a page about various window managers
> for the ipaq.
>
> In the interest of releasing early and often, and reducing potential
> duplication of effort, I submit this status report.
>
> I have built the following for the ipaq:
>
> flwm
> swm
> sapphire
> icewm
>
> You can see screen shots at http://www.chron.com/spider/screens/
>
> I have put some of them up for download at
> http://www.chron.com/spider/apps/wm/
>
> icewm is not there yet because it requires many libraries the
> way I have
> built it and I just haven't had time to put together a tarball.
>
> I have included some preliminary notes and impressions at the
> end of this
> message.
>
> Dwayne
>
>
>
> twm
> ---
>
> focus problem(?) fixed in latest version(?)
>
> large memory footprint, especially for its limited functionality
>
> looks dated
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 500 244 146288 Jan 1 1970
> /usr/bin/X11/twm
>
> 496 root 9 0 1564 1564 1148 S 0 0.0 5.0 0:00 twm
>
>
> swm
> ---
> oversimplified refresh behavior; windows do not refresh while dragging
>
> no shaped windows(?)
>
> very simple looking and working, but what do you expect for 17kB?
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17760 Oct 3 03:18 swm
>
> 486 root 1 0 968 968 808 S 0 0.0 3.1 0:00 swm
>
>
> sapphire
> --------
>
> bad off-screen menu behavior
>
> strange box at screen bottom
>
> theme switching not working right (may be user error)
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 125616 Oct 4 00:54 sapphire
>
> 474 root 9 0 1164 1164 936 S 0 0.0 3.7
> 0:39 sapphire
>
> flwm
> ----
>
> good offscreen menu behavior; menus auto-slide into full view
>
> strange sideways title bar
>
> no shaped windows(?)
>
> relies on fltk (maybe a good thing?)
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 59164 Jan 2 1970 flwm
>
> 494 root 9 0 1012 1012 868 S 0 0.0 3.2
> 0:00 flwm
>
> icewm
> -----
>
> cool themes
>
> strange rendering on bottom panel (bad config?)
>
> bad offscreen menu behavior
>
> large memory footprint
>
> large binary size
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 303600 Oct 6 03:24 icewm
>
> 679 root 8 0 1568 1568 1264 S 0 0.0 5.0
> 0:04 icewm
>
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Received on Fri Oct 6 08:52:51 2000