Re: LDM improvements made by Revolution Linux

On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 05:53:47PM +0200, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> Now that Ubuntu 10.04 is out, I have some time to spend on LTSP again :)
> 
> So, first thing on my list is to have the work done over the last few
> months by Revolution Linux reviewed and merged.
> 
> As I mentioned it at the last hackfest, we are getting some funding from
> nlnet.nl to work on LTSP and LTSP-Cluster, one of the projects was about
> improving LDM.
> 
> Basically what we did is a good rework of ldm:
>  - Integrated the minimal window manager from Scotty

I find it the utmost in hilarity that a private project undertaken
so many years ago to teach myself Xlib programming would finally
come to use somewhere other than on my own desktop.

For history buffs, back in the "Good Old Days" of GNU/Linux before
KDE and Gnome came along and standardized the fun out of desktops, the
normal "beginning to learn X" project was to hack up your own window
manager.

I've used a ton of whacky stuff in my life, from a heavily modified
TWM setup, to aewm, to EvilWM, FVWM2, etc.

The window manager that launched a 1000 window managers was 9wm:
http://unauthorised.org/dhog/9wm.html

It was simple, it was elegant, and one not-so-bright person like myself
was able to read and understand the codebase.

The code that is my window manager came via the following meandering
route:

9wm -> aewm -> evilwm -> wwm

Evilwm is still under active development after all these years:
http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/

My version was called wwm, for "Wicked Window Manager", for (as
my tag line for the project was) "What is wickedness, other than
refined evil?"

The lesson here to pass along is this: no matter how silly or old
the project of yours is, save the source: you never know when it will
come in handy.  I started playing around with wwm in 1999.  Eleven
years later...

I'll be doing some work over the next few months (now that year end's
over at work) on the libpam-ssh module I've done some work on.  We'll
plug it into this.

Thanks, Stephane!

Cheers,
Scott

-- 
Scott L. Balneaves | The human race has one really effective weapon,
Systems Department | and that is laughter.
Legal Aid Manitoba |     -- Mark Twain

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