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

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From: Ian R. Searle
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:58

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Peter Mutsaers (muts@estec.esa.nl) wrote:
: >>On Mon, 4 Jan 93 11:35:19 GMT, sinkwitz@ifi.unizh.ch (Rainer Sinkwitz) said:

:   Rainer> One vote for olvwm, you get the virtual screens and much
:   Rainer> more, and it's free !!!

: One vote against olvwm. It is open look. (typing this on a SUN with
: ^&*%#$ open look completely removed; I use plain X11R5 instead). Use
: ctwm, it is like twm, thus completely customizable (the standard
: customization is not very nice) but offers virtual screens as well. I
: shall append my .ctwmrc file, which is quite nice:

Since you all seem to be pretty good with ctwm maybe you can help me?
I just picked up ctwm (2.1) from export. Compiled it on my DECstation 3100
(X11r4, compile goes smoothly). When I fire up ctwm the workspace manager
buttons are nowhere to be found. I have twiddled with the .ctwmrc file
(workspacemanagergeometry) add-nauseum. I have tried the system.ctwmrc file.

Thanks in advance
Ian Searle (ian@hobbes.ds.boeing.com)

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