How is there an entire lengthy page discussing it that doesn’t provide any screenshots?

Classic window managers and screenshots can be found on this page: http://www.xwinman.org/vtwm.php

man pages don't have screenshots. They typically use a pager, but they can have formatting. Just type 'man man' in the cli without the single quotes. Online used to mean documentation provided on the local system.

X11R7.6 Manual Pages: Section 1: Commands

https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/man/man1

Of course, there is not a reason why the manual page cannot have images and figures. The whole PIC language exists to put diagrams into things like ?roff, and it was at one time de rigueur to format the manual pages to postscript and send them to the printer. It was also common in later times to generate PS or DVI output and view that with the appropriate viewer. Honestly viewing the manual pages with a plain text pager is the new, worse-is-better method.

Most man pages give good PostScript output with "man -t". I like reading those on screen or occasionally printing manuals I refer to frequently. The main problem I've run into in recent years are man pages that use ASCII art but don't wrap that in explicit roff requests for a fixed-width font, making the result mostly unreadable outside the terminal.

Why would you need screenshots, when all you'd ever do is running terminal emulators?

As it seems customary.

I also need a pair of googly eyes that follow every movement of the mouse cursor and Neko, the tiny cat to sleep on it.

Android version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tamanegi.a...

This is the one true way to validate DISPLAY is set correctly for remote apps.

I prefer xlogo, personally.

I guess since it’s a news article I assumed it was some bleeding edge implementation of something non-mainstream like a tiling window manager.

So I clicked through and was like… a couple pics would do way better at helping me understand what it was on about.

Then a reply here had a link of what looked my early 00s openbsd sparcstation desktop.

And suddenly it all made sense.

I probably was using twm the first time I used NCSA Mosaic. A few months later Al Gore gave a speech talking about the information superhighway.

because man pages don't have screenshots.

it's possible the person asking the question is younger than good old manpages.

Everyone born after 1972 is younger than man.

Now I feel very old.

To be fair, they could. Some VT terminals could display ReGIS and Sixel graphics.

Sixel is a terrible standard, BTW, but at least it can be easily integrated into the character flow of a page. ReGIS (and Tektronix) can't.

Yet they don't...to be fair.

I guess that if we manage to force sixel support into xterm, QTermWidget, and VTE, we'd have a reasonable excuse to add graphics support into man and info for terminals that have sixel graphics in their termcap entries.