Tiling window managers make your life easier by automatically arranging windows on the screen for you. Xmonad is a minimal one that’s easy to get started with — all you have to do is learn a few keyboard shortcuts. ( Read more... )
http://www.howtogeek.com/114728/how-to-use-xmonad-a-tiling-window-manager-for-linux/In this blog post, we'll look at a couple of older graphical user interface toolkits that were popular in the 1980s and 1990s.
Why would anyone care about old software like this? One reason is purely for nostalgia, particularly if you used these systems back in the days when they were state-of-the-art. They can also provide a glimpse into how early graphical user interfaces worked, and how they influenced today's systems. Another possibility is that you have a legacy application that you need to continue to support, but need to move off of obsolete hardware (such as a UNIX workstation or server) and onto a more modern hardware platform (such as a Linux-based desktop).
Finally, while expensive at the time, these older systems ran on what would now be considered very limited resources as far as CPU, memory, screen resolution and file storage. The software might be suitable for running on current low-cost hardware like the Raspberry Pi or BeagleBoard or on embedded systems.
Motif (1) is both a standard for a graphical user interface as well as a widget toolkit. Written in the C programming language, it runs on the X Windowing System. It includes a window manager and development tools. In the 1980s, Motif was the standard user interface on UNIX systems from vendors such as Digital Equipment Corporation and Hewlett-Packard.
Motif was sold and licensed commercially as proprietary software. An initiative called LessTif developed an open source replacement, but it was not very compatible and never widely used. In 2000, Open Motif was released and made available at no cost on open source platforms, such as Linux, but was still not free on commercial UNIX systems. In 2012, Open Motif was released as free software under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
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http://www.ics.com/blog/retrocomputing-motif-and-cde
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