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- From: lecom@slhp1.epfl.ch (Claude Lecommandeur)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: Best WM? Vote for ctwm, plus good .ctwmrc file, HELP
- Message-ID: <4594@sicsun.epfl.ch>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 08:56:57 GMT
- References: <MUTS.93Jan7141241@PMCS.estec.esa.nl> <C0p8Gr.CJ4@plato.ds.boeing.com>
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- You don't seem to be accessable by mail, so i port it :
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- 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:
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- |> : Rainer> One vote for olvwm, you get the virtual screens and much
- |> : Rainer> more, and it's free !!!
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- |> : 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:
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- |> 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.
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- |> Thanks in advance
- |> Ian Searle (ian@hobbes.ds.boeing.com)
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- Did you put :
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- ShowWorkSpaceManager # start with workspcace manager up
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- in your .ctwmrc ?
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- Claude.
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