Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 18:28:36 -0800 (PST) From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) To: wes@btsslc.com (Wes Peters) Cc: kline@ns3.noc.netcom.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ctwm (was: Where to get fvwm...) Message-ID: <9601270228.AA14403@tera.com> In-Reply-To: <9601270216.AA14128@tera.com> from "Wes Peters" at Jan 26, 96 07:24:29 pm
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According to Wes Peters: > > Gary Kline writes: > > On a tantential subject, has anyone played around with > > ``ctwm''? At work on our Suns, a few people have switched > > over from twm to ctwm. It look nice; full of nifty > > features. But....I'm not sure that I want to hassle with > > changing the dot files. > > > > Can anybody summarize what these different window managers > > do that good ol' twm doesn't? > > ctwm gives you multiple workspaces, ala HP-VUE, without much more > overhead than twm. If you install and use the Xaw3d library, it will > also give you window gadgets (borders, iconify button, etc) that look > similar to Motif. Fvwm does a lot more, but eats huge amounts of > memory; on my 16m DX/2-66, ctwm is an ideal tradeoff. > > ctwm will also understand your .twmrc just fine. Best bet is to copy > .twmrc to .ctwmrc and add a feature at a time. > Well, sounds like I'll switch over. At work first!! Then if it works for me, on my FreeBSD system. Thanks to the mailinglist for all the feedback. I've salted away the info. gary
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