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Although the computer screen is two-dimensional, today most users of
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windowing environments control their systems with a one-dimensional
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list of choices -- the standard pull-down or drop-down menus such as
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those found on Microsoft Windows, Presentation Manager, or the
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Macintosh.
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An alternative user-interface technique is "pie" menus -
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two-dimensional, circular, and in many ways easier to use and faster
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than conventional linear menus. Pie menus also work well with
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alternative pointing devices such as those found in stylus or
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pen-based systems.
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piewm is a virtual window manager based on tvtwm, which uses pie menus.
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