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Re: Best WM? Vote for ctwm, plus good .ctwmrc file

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From: Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:24
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In article <ds_3vr@rpi.edu>, rogerj@aix.rpi.edu (Diversion (Jeff Rogers)) writes:
|> >I also love ctwm
|> 
|> [...lots of ctwm and other WM stuff deleted...]
|> 
|> The biggest comaplaint I've had with ctwm (In my uneducated opinion - I
|> don't use it) is it's inabilityy to have non-ctwm backgrounds on your
|> screen. You can put one up, but it disappears as soon as you change rooms.
|> There's probably -rc options to correct this, but since I don't use it, I'm
|> really not interested in what they are.

   There is actually wrong, at least for ctwm 2.1.  I have a nice
gif image which I load using xloadimage and ctwm never touches that.
There is a way to tell ctwm in your .ctwmrc to use a different bitmap
for each room, but that is under user control.
-- 

Alain Brossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
	SIC/SII, EL-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Suisse, +41 21 693-2211
brossard@sic.epfl.ch
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From: brossard@siisun.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII)
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Subject: Re: Best WM? Vote for ctwm, plus good .ctwmrc file
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Date: 11 Jan 93 09:24:18 GMT
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