On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Pablo Manalastas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> It's possible you're thinking of applications that use Motif libs for > rendering, such as Netscape Navigator/Communicator. Yes. I was refering to libXm.so, libMrm.so, libUil.so. Thanks for pointing this out. > But (to pick an > example) Netscape has been available only with the lib statically > compiled in, for many, many years. So, those applications don't benefit > at all from you having the Motif dynamic shared object library installed. With Opera you have a choice of dyn-link or static-link to those libs. How about Amaya and other motif-using apps from Europe? > And, in any event, the Motif window manager is doubly not required, > since you don't strictly speaking need a window manager at all to run > Motif-linked apps, let alone needing mwm. I was referring to mwm as the "standard" window manager on Unix systems. It is not as beautiful as enlightenment, but has traditionally been "expected to be there" in the Unix box, just like "vi". Isn't this why twm tries to look like mwm? PMana _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
