#xwinman #wm #des

Hi all,

I've had a few instances of people contacting me about the site of xwinman.org

When I mirrored it, I did say as just that -- a mirror of the information, which is found here:

https://xteddy.org/xwinman/

I've no intention of letting that go.

But, it seems there's a few people who are disputing the legality of these pages. and/or, wishing to clone the content for themselves and "modernise the CSS".

This seems odd to me. and should not happen.

To this end, I've added the mirrored files of xwinman.org here:

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/xwinman

... and want anyone to know that these are the official files from the original mirror.

Remembering #xwinman #wm #x11

https://www.xteddy.org/xwinman/

I mirrored this some time ago, hoping that the original (https://www.xwinman.org) never went away.

Alas, it has.

Matt Chapman created xwinman.org at just the right time, to allow for a good selection of DEs and WMs to be documented -- with screenshots -- and where applicable -- configuration files as well.

I know that for many, it was a really good resource to discover what was out there and for people to reuse components from config files to customise their own environment.

Good luck trying to do this on Wayland...

It's a snapshot in time when things were simpler and the choice for the user was at its peak. Again... Wayland will never offer this degree of flexibility because XServer needed you to handle window management.

Nowadays, Giles Orr provides a more up-to-date list of WMs which you can see here:

https://www.gilesorr.com/wm/xwmtable.html

Although some of curation is arguably opinionated.

But I wanted to raise the fact that xwinman.org is mirrored, and that it's a very interesting resource.

As it happens, one of Matt Chapman's programs, xtt, is something I've included #x11cp:

https://x11cp.org/apps/xtt/