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In article <199209222120.AA16488@quip.eecs.umich.edu> anon@eecs.umich.edu (Omar S. Juma) writes:

   Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc
   From: anon@eecs.umich.edu (Omar S. Juma)
   Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
   Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1992 21:20:05 GMT
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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.

I use gwm daily, and it runs for weeks at a time without problem.  I
have found it to be a fairly robust and very flexible window manager.
I wouldn't trade it for anything!  As far as the off loading of functionality
to lisp code goes, I find gwm to have much better response time than
Sun's olwm especially with NeWS and Sunview support, and gwm is much more
flexible. I also find the response times of twm and gwm to be comparable,
but probably twm has some speed advantage over gwm.

I tried out a much earlier version of gwm a couple of years ago and wasn't
too pleased, but I like the version I have now  (GWM 1.7l) quit well.
I believe there are quite a few PD things to hook gwm and epoch together
in an integrated way, but I haven't had the time to explore this yet.


						Darrell Schiebel
						(dschieb@nrao.edu)