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Article #24831Re: Best WM? Vote for ctwm, plus good .ctwmrc file, HELP
From: Claude Lecommandeur
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:56
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:56
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You don't seem to be accessable by mail, so i port it :
In article <C0p8Gr.CJ4@plato.ds.boeing.com>, ian@hobbes.ds.boeing.com (Ian R. Searle) writes:
|> 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)
Did you put :
ShowWorkSpaceManager # start with workspcace manager up
in your .ctwmrc ?
Claude.
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