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On 12 Mar 2007 at 11:18, Steven wrote as follows ( portions snipped):

> > The new BL looks really interesting.  I've fiddled 
> > a bit with jwm, having bumped into it first while 
> > testing out Puppy Linux. 
> 
> Yeah, they use it on Puppy.  I think one of the DSL
> versions used it too.  It's a very popular wm for BSD
> (or one of those other non-Linux OS). 
> 
> > It has some nice features (e.g., the xml config file) 
> 
> And that includes user-defined keyboard commands, which
> should make some users happy.
> 
> > How much smaller is it than icewm, btw?
> 
> Even though the jwm features are very similar to icewm,
> it is one-quarter the size.  The jwm stuff on BL3.5 will
> actually take less space than the swm stuff on BL3.4.

I look forward to it, Steven.

The DSL I have now is ver 3.3RC2, I think.  Have been using the loading line 
pasted below - note the   jwm   item

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kernel /boot/linux24 fromhd=/dev/hda3 root=/dev/hda3 quiet noacpi dma 
restore=hdb2 nopcmcia frugal host=asus write desktop=jwm

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Thanks,
Sheldon Isaac