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Re: getting the most out of TWM

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Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote at 21:35 this Friday (GMT):
> From the «hey, default» department:
> Title: Getting the most out of TWM, X11’s default window manager
> Author: Thom Holwerda
> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2024 12:17:49 +0000
> Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/140172/getting-the-most-out-of-twm-x11s-default-window-manager/
>
> Graham’s TWM page[1] has been around for like two decades or so and still isn’t
> even remotely as old as TWM itself, and in 2021 they published an updated
> version with even more information, tips, and tricks for TWM[2]. The Tab Window
> Manager finds its origins in the lat 1980s, and has been the default window
> manager for the X Windowing System for a long time, now, too. Yet, few people
> know it exists – how many people even know X has a default window manager? –
> and even fewer people know you can actually style it, too.
>
> OK, so TWM is fairly easy to configure but alot of people, upon seeing the
> default config, scream ‘Ugh, thats awful!’ and head off to the ports tree or
> their distro sources in search of the latest and greatest uber desktop
> environment.
>
> There are some hardcore TWM fans and mimimalists however who stick around and
> get to liking the basic feel of TWM. Then they start to mod it and create
> their own custom dekstop. All part of the fun in Unix :).
> ↫ Graham’s TWM page[1]
>
> I’ll admit I have never used TWM properly, and didn’t know it could be themed
> at all. I feel very compelled to spend some time with it now, because I’ve
> always liked the by-now classic design where the right-click desktop menu
> serves as the central location for all your interactions with the system. There
> are quite a few more advanced, up-to-date forks of TWM as well, but the idea of
> sticking to the actual default X window manager has a certain charm.
>
> I almost am too afraid to ask, because the answer on OSNews to these sorts of
> questions is almost always “yes” – do we have any TWM users in the audience?
> I’m extremely curious to find out if TWM actually has a reason to exist at this
> point, or if, in 2024, it’s just junk code in the X.org source repository,
> because I’m looking at some of these screenshots and I feel a very strong urge
> to give it a serious go.
>
> Links:
> [1]: https://www.cpcnw.co.uk/twm/twmrc.htm (link)
> [2]: https://www.cpcnw.co.uk/twm2/Grahams_TWM_page2.html (link)


Interesting. I think I tried TWM during my search for "the perfect
desktop environment" and passed on it pretty quick. If it's as
customizable as claimed here, I might give it another shot.
-- 
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getting the most out of TWM Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> - 2024-07-12 21:35 +0000
  Re: getting the most out of TWM candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-07-13 14:00 +0000
    Re: getting the most out of TWM D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-14 11:59 +0200
      Re: getting the most out of TWM candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-07-14 14:00 +0000
  Re: getting the most out of TWM Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-07-13 18:06 -0300
    Re: getting the most out of TWM arnold@freefriends.org (Aharon Robbins) - 2024-07-14 03:12 +0000
      Re: getting the most out of TWM Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-07-14 02:39 -0300
        Re: getting the most out of TWM arnold@freefriends.org (Aharon Robbins) - 2024-07-14 16:39 +0000
          Re: getting the most out of TWM Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-07-14 18:22 -0300
            Re: getting the most out of TWM Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-07-14 21:00 -0300
      Re: getting the most out of TWM Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-14 21:21 +0000
      xearth on xfce (was: Re: getting the most out of TWM) vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-07-24 06:44 +0000
        Re: xearth on xfce (was: Re: getting the most out of TWM) Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> - 2024-07-24 18:26 +0000
  Re: getting the most out of TWM John McCue <jmccue@hairball.jmcunx.com> - 2024-07-14 14:51 +0000
  Re: getting the most out of TWM scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2024-07-15 20:52 +0000
    Re: getting the most out of TWM Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-15 21:57 +0000
      Re: getting the most out of TWM Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2024-07-15 20:34 -0400
        Re: getting the most out of TWM Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-16 01:16 +0000
          Re: getting the most out of TWM Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-07-17 04:14 -0300
            Re: getting the most out of TWM The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2024-07-21 15:11 -0700
              Re: getting the most out of TWM Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-21 23:50 +0000
                Re: getting the most out of TWM The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2024-07-22 20:52 -0700
                Re: getting the most out of TWM Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-23 04:34 +0000
                Re: getting the most out of TWM The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2024-07-24 15:05 -0700
                Re: getting the most out of TWM Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-25 00:02 +0000
                Re: getting the most out of TWM candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-07-26 16:40 +0000
              Re: getting the most out of TWM Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-07-22 18:13 -0300
  Re: getting the most out of TWM kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2024-07-17 14:50 +0000
    Re: getting the most out of TWM Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-17 22:12 +0000

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