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patrick295767 08-01-2016 01:51 AM

Share your configuration file of TWM best X windows manager
 
Dear Linux&X11 users,

This thread is to show off what can do TWM.

TWM is a versatile, light-weight, fabulous, X windows manager. It dates from the origin of Linux, and it still offer a nice platform for working but also for compiling your own X11 window manager.

Simply share your ~/.twmrc and you can as well ideally post a screenshot.

Happpy Tux

FredGSanford 08-02-2016 10:42 AM

I doubt if anybody use it. For those who may use a barebone setup, they probably install openbox, fluxbox, awesome or some other window manager and continue configuring their system. I know that is what I do.

patrick295767 08-02-2016 10:44 AM

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patrick295767 08-02-2016 03:01 PM

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patrick295767 08-02-2016 03:09 PM

as lean as twm, there are :
https://sourceforge.net/projects/windwm/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kar...e=typ_redirect
http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cwm_%28window_manager%29



Is twm a viable wm?
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...window-manager

ondoho 08-06-2016 07:23 AM

http://dt.iki.fi/galleries/windowmanagers

patrick295767 08-08-2016 09:14 AM

Of course, TWM is still being used. Even today, twm can be of a great use and help.

CYGWIN has TWM into the repository !!

rkfb 08-11-2016 03:59 PM

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Here's mine, been using TWM as the main WM on my laptop for the last three or four years now.

patrick295767 08-11-2016 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by rkfb (Post 5589558)
Here's mine, been using TWM as the main WM on my laptop for the last three or four years now.

I like the icons on the desktop. Could you post the memory use of your twm config?

Mine JWM is eating very little of the memory, by compiling it the "Right" way. I like evilwm since it can be also pretty low in memory usage.

The big drawback of twm is the non automatic placement of new windows...

rkfb 08-12-2016 05:17 PM

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It was written in 1987 so don't worry about anything it does or doesn't do.

patrick295767 08-13-2016 01:50 AM

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Originally Posted by rkfb (Post 5590023)
It was written in 1987 so don't worry about anything it does or doesn't do.

TWM was pretty light, in the past, I used it when my PCs had quite low performances.

That's cool that people still compile it today to make it still available.

ondoho 08-14-2016 04:43 AM

nice one, rkfb!

twm is often included with the Xserver as a kind of fallback gui if you have problems with your DE.
but the lack of virtual desktops... not for me.

dugan 08-15-2016 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by patrick295767 (Post 5583971)
Simply share your ~/.twmrc and you can as well ideally post a screenshot.

I'm... pretty sure that nobody has one.

rkfb 08-19-2016 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by ondoho (Post 5590619)
nice one, rkfb!

twm is often included with the Xserver as a kind of fallback gui if you have problems with your DE.
but the lack of virtual desktops... not for me.


There's vdesk:

https://offog.org/code/vdesk/

You could also Ctrl-Alt-F2 (for instance) and login again. Start a whole raft of applications on this desktop and switch to and fro via Ctl-Alt-F7(F8). Add others as required.

Not trying to tell you TWM is the new desktop for 2016, just that if you do run with it you can work with it.

rkfb 08-19-2016 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by dugan (Post 5591351)
I'm... pretty sure that nobody has one.

I posted mine. And a screenshot :-)


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