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Article #24778Re: Best WM? Vote for ctwm, plus good .ctwmrc file
From: Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:24
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!charnel!rat!usc!rpi!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!univ-lyon1.fr!chx400!sicsun!siisun.epfl.ch!brossard From: brossard@siisun.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Best WM? Vote for ctwm, plus good .ctwmrc file Message-ID: <1993Jan11.102418@siisun.epfl.ch> Date: 11 Jan 93 09:24:18 GMT References: <1992Dec30.173001.11601@mail.cornell.edu> <1993Jan4.113519.826@ifi.unizh.ch> <MUTS.93Jan7141241@PMCS.estec.esa.nl> <7146@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <ds_3vr@rpi.edu> Sender: news@sicsun.epfl.ch Reply-To: brossard@sic.epfl.ch Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Lines: 20