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lorddimwit is now @rk@well.com

Back in the early days of the X Window System, X10 era, there was a window manager that tried to emulate the Andrew System’s original tiled window interface, which tiled windows based on constraint solving.

Andrew moved to a simpler layout algorithm and there is a later X window manager also called “Andrew somethingorother” that uses this simplified algorithm.

But the original X WM. I saw it on a tape, source and all, years ago, and now I can’t find it.

#x11#unix#andrew

@lorddimwit do you mean Siemens RTL Window Manager?

@leah

Sadly no, though they is an important entry in the history of window management. :)

@lorddimwit I don't know any other early tiling wm, so I'm curious what you find. The X10R3 tape has xwm, xnwm and uwm (all overlapping): retro11.de/ouxr/43bsd/usr/src/

www.retro11.de4.3BSD - /usr/src/new/X