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Re:CDE 2.5.1 by chasil on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @02:16PM (#33251653)
The Motif Window Manager and widget set are older, and incorporated into CDE.

"Motif was first shipped by OSF in 1989."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software)

"Hewlett-Packard, IBM, SunSoft, and USL announced CDE in June 1993 as a joint development within the Common Open Software Environment (COSE) initiative."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment

Because this software was written for 100MHz CPUs, it screams with high-performance on modern systems.

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Re:CDE 2.5.1 by anthk on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @02:36PM (#33251898)
FVWM was MWM like but much faster. With Rxvt it screamed against CDE. Pentium PC's felt faster than some Sparc machines...
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Re:CDE 2.5.1 by chasil on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @02:53PM (#33252154)
FVWM also remains the default windows manager in OpenBSD.

It also includes CWM, but you really have to know what you're doing with that.

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Re:CDE 2.5.1 by anthk on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @08:38PM (#33255992)
Actually you have to know less ;)

Configuring FVWM it's far more difficult, and I did it several times under lots of Linux and BSD's. CWM was a breeze. I just added a bigger border, keyndings for tags, xclock and xload at the bottom-right corner, stacked up. Done.

I have it w/ OpenBSD under a netbook, it flies.

I say this because I use FVWM for old unstable software from the 90's, some computational nature (mandelbrot, chaotic systems, attractors) code. The examples from the book crash CWM. And setting up FVWM it's difficult for different screens...

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Re:CDE 2.5.1 by ttkciar on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @03:33PM (#33252685)
/me sees FVWM referred to in the past tense from his FVWM desktop, and scowls
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