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Re: gwm - anyone use it? Is there a mailing list/newsgroup?

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From: Omar S. Juma
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1992 21:20

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gwm is unreliable.  Use it to satisfy your curiosity, but don't expect
any productivity or functionality gains.  The various lisp modules for
window manager emulation are poorly written and rather bug-ridden.  I
have managed to make gwm hang or crash without much effort.

I like the concept, but the implementation is terrible.  Too much
functionality is off-loaded onto the lisp code, whereas it should
be encapsulated in high-level functions in the C code.  I
would prefer an xlisp extension to tvtwm, for example, instead
of the weird and hacked lisp that's included in gwm.


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