Thus spake Yves Rutschle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:19:46PM -0500, Ryan M. Golbeck wrote: > > apt-get install ratpoison > > ratpoison looks interesting (I never actually tried it, > because I ran into ION first and fell in love). > > The idea of only having one, full-screen frame at a time > seem to reductionnist to me, though. On a large screen, I > will typically want to have gkrellm or similar monitors, an > editor and a shell (to compile and run), which I really > want to have all at the same time (I'm greedy). > > > As for which one came up with the idea, I think it's arguable. > > Fair enough. I'll reword by saying it's one of the very few > WMs (with ratpoison) to stray from the "many floating, > overlapping windows" paradigm.
Wirth's Oberon system also eschewed the overlapping windows. Not sure of the date. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
