>	For an unexperienced BSD'er what IS Motif?

(joke) The beta release of Lesstif! :-)

(serious) It's a layer of code over and above X that provides a standard 
set of useful graphics tools and a set of conventions for their use.

X provides the actual drawing and communications protocols, while Motif 
provides a standard way of using these things to build a GUI.

'Lesstif' is a PD effort to provide a Motif-a-like.

>From my failing memory... the two most common toolboxes for X are 
Motif... and... Open Look. But I remember seeing somewhere that Sun had 
dropped Open Look in favour of Motif in order to support the CDE. 

(Off topic ramble) I've been amazed by the difference the X server makes 
to the quality of what Apple would call the 'user experience.' I was 
using Mi/X on under MacOS on a 6100/66 to serve a NetBSD C650, and it was 
very frustrating - windows would overwrite each other's contents, scroll 
bars would be drawn outside of windows, etc, etc.
Running MkLinux as an X server is a whole different ball game. It's a 
billion % faster, and actually draws stuff properly, and renders all the 
right fonts, and is generally a joy to use...

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