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  • From: russ loroville <bontemps AT m-net.arbornet.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] TWIN - interesting non-X windowing system
  • Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:29:20 -0400 (EDT)

Cancel that last message. I just read your subject line.

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, russ loroville wrote:

> You can do this in icewm can't you? Just open multiple xterms in one
> window.
>
> On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, James Miller wrote:
>
> > I ran across a piece of software that seemed of potential interest to
> > the BL project. It is called "TWIN" and, as the subject line indicates,
> > it allows one to do windowing on a Linux console. In other words, as I
> > understand it, with this software you can have multiple command line
> > utils open in a single console. "Windows" in the console move to the
> > background or foreground, depending on whether they are active. "Windows"
> > can be resized, moved, etc. The whole thing sounds rather intriguing to
> > me, and I'll be looking into it further. For others interested in
> > learning about and/or using this software, the link is:
> > http://linuz.sns.it/~max/twin/ . It comes only as source but, if I use it
> > and like it, I may consider making a Slackware package out of it and
> > making it available to others. Enjoy.
> >
> > James
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