Submitted by xmorg on Sun, 07/24/2005 - 15:33. General Questions
I use openMotif both on my laptop and my Desktop, FreeBSD 5.2, and 5.4 respectivly.

1) Lack of bloat (hackedbox is also Good), I like to have a clean desktop where 5-15% of your screen isnt taken up by menues, icons, etc.
2) fast! Even with xvid, trying to watch a dvd on my laptop(2.3G celeron, 521 ram) was painfully slow, skipping always, etc with gnome. mwm starts fast, rarely crashes, and plays games and dvd's alot faster.
3) Neither looks nor feels like windows... when you want to escape....

Heres how i spiced it up a bit, to squelch claims that it is "ugly"

1. Wallpaper I use xfbd from xfce3 (not 4). This is a great app that lets you graphicly pic the backdrop and keeps it in a simple text file for the next time you login. BSD still has it in ports, but if you are on linux you may have to go hunting for it.
2. osd_clock, a really cool clock that takes up very little space, and fits nicly in a corner of your desktop.
3. Gnomes apps, who said you gotta use gnome to use their apps? :)
4. Motif apps, xmcd (cdplayer) xmmix (volume control), Emacs, and gVim, allow Motif version, Acrobat Reader just went to Gtk but there are still plenty of Xm rpm's floating around...
5. Xplore ... very nice file manager that only lacks a url bar and thumbnails imho.... I used to use nautilus --no-desktop, but its getting more and more integrated with Gnome.... Rox is also good.
6. Menus, and resouce files. mwmrc is EXTREEMLY easy to configure. Heh, try figuring out how to add or remove items from the gnome system menu, Good luck even with Root access. You can learn how to colorize and theme your windows with Xresrouces very simply. You can even add pics, but they must be 256-color xpm's. Its usually app*resource: value.

I havent figured out how to use multiple windows(virtual desktops), however I have never really used them, or have gottem my share of frustration, whem playing a game and suddenly switching desktops with a mouse move or key-combo.