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Open Motif

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 05/24/2000 - 16:50.

What exactly is Open Motif? Is it a window manager, a desktop environment a GUI like X? I didn`t see anything about this in the MotifZone FAQ.

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Wed, 05/24/2000 - 19:07#1

    

    

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It is a user interface toolkit that sits on top of the X Window System. On traditional UNIX systems, it is the "standard" for such toolkits. 



    

    

    		
    
  

  

    
    
    
  









  

    
    
    
  

  

    
    
    
Thu, 06/01/2000 - 14:04#2

    

    

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Mark, sorry to be pedantic, but that is a definition of "Motif". Open Motif is a near open source version of the Motif UI toolkit. Essentially it`s free if used on Open Source Operating Systems.



    

    

    		
    
  

  

    
    
    
  









  

    
    
    
  

  

    
    
    
Thu, 06/01/2000 - 17:16#3

    

    

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Absolutely correct! I should of said something like Open Motif shares the same API (and 100% of the code) with Motif, the UI standard on UNIX systems (but not Linux, at least as yet... ;-) )


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Mon, 06/05/2000 - 11:19#4

    

    

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who cares ;) motif rooles ;)