[ale] Cool X setups

[Vernard Martin]

> I want my computer to be able to generate tornado images like that - 
> or at least pictures of Helen Hunt.  Anyway, it looked like the SGI 
> laptop was running Motif and not the SGI 4dwm window manager.  Doesn't
> matter much - mwm with the right settings looks like an SGI I'm sure.
> (At least the buttons and menu titles)

Ugh. No. SGI's 4Dwm is pretty hard to simulate. I think they use some
custome fonts or something.

> A lot...if you feel happier working on your computer, it'll be more 
> productive.  One of the reasons I avoid Macs is because I think the 
> interface is butt ugly.

Amen to that. One of the reasons I used a NeXT machine for quite sometime.
And that's the main reason I use mini-tower cases instead of desktops or
full tower cases. I like the compact design.

> I'm willing to setup on my web server images of peoples desktops and 
> how they were configured to get that way.  Just send me an image of 
> your desktop and whatever info about how you got it that way, and 
> I'll put it out there.  Almost any format is fine...preferably tared 
> and gziped, then uuencoded.  Images preferably in gif or jpg, though 
> xwd's will be handled.

Cool. There are several of them on the FVWM home pages and they are pretty
impresive in their own right. And if you check out the Window Manager home
page that has screen shots of various window managers that exist you can't
even tell you are on a unix machine. Except for the better performance :-)

Also, check this out:

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Red Hat Software is pleased to announce the....

	Red Hat Free Desktop Contest

to encourage the creation of user friendly X based desktops.

User's of Red Hat Linux and Red Hat Linux based products (such as the
Caldera Network Desktop) are all encouraged to submit their favorite
X desktop. The basic rules are:

	1) Everything you use must be freely available as RPMs
	2) Maximum resolution of 1024x768 and 256 colors
	3) We need to see a glint or control-panel in the screen
	   shot somewhere

For complete details on this contest, including rules, procedures, and
samples desktops, please look at http://www.redhat.com/dtc.

Our prizes will be awarded by a panel of 5 judges, and include:

	A Universal Desktop Box (UDB) Alpha system donated by
	Digital Equipment Corporation! This 166 MHz Alpha
	system with 24 MB of RAM is the (very) grand prize!

	A 1 gigabyte hard drive from Linux Hardware Solutions.
	IDE or SCSI, it's up to the winner.

	Free copies for Red Hat Linux for any platform we support. If
	you already have the latest Red Hat, we'll wait and send you
	the next version.

The judges are:

	Giles Bateman of PCTV
	Marc Ewing of Red Hat Software
	Jon "maddog" Hall of Digital Equipment Corporation
	Marc Hamstra of Bentley Systems
	Erik Troan of Red Hat Software

Dates:

	Entries must be submitted by June 15, 1996
	Winners will be announced on July 4, 1996

Again, the magic URL for information on this contest is:

	http://www.redhat.com/dtc

=================

Red Hat Linux is a freely distributable distribution of the Linux 
Operating System. For more information on Red Hat Linux, check out
http://www.redhat.com. It is available for free on the Internet as
well as commercially from a variety of CD resellers, including Red Hat
software, Infomagic, Yggdrasil, and Pacific Hi Tech.

=================

Thanks to Digital Equipment Corporation and Linux Hardware solutions for
donating the prizes to make this contest so exciting. Thanks also to
the members of the Red Hat mailing list for the inspiration and outline
of this contest.

-- 
Vernard Martin
(vernard.martin at cc.gatech.edu) http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/vernard/
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332