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From: Eric Brown <eric.c.brown@mac.com>
To: Andy Tai <atai@atai.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: adding motif to guix
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2023 21:01:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m25ydg5s40.fsf@ecbrown.ericcbrown.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJsg1E9xvRcWgWgW5b4L5ymJu9qnb7K-Y9JGELh_0CWxyoEtPw@mail.gmail.com> (Andy Tai's message of "Sun, 8 Jan 2023 16:25:10 -0800")

Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> writes:

> It should be; openmotif was just some kind of marketing term
>
> Although guix has some existing packages using lesstif, the now dead
> early motif clone (as free software) and I don't know if emacs may be
> using that...
>

Thanks for the clarification. My interest in this package is because
openmotif is the best of the X window managers that do not suffer from
a rather infamous and longstanding GTK bug which will bring down Emacs.



  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-09  3:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-08 23:50 adding motif to guix Andy Tai
2023-01-09  0:15 ` Eric Brown
2023-01-09  0:25   ` Andy Tai
2023-01-09  3:01     ` Eric Brown [this message]
2023-01-09 17:40       ` David Pirotte
2023-02-11 23:59       ` Andy Tai
2023-02-12 15:12         ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice

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