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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: getting the most out of TWM
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:00:04 -0000 (UTC)
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D <nospam@example.net> wrote at 09:59 this Sunday (GMT):
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> On Sat, 13 Jul 2024, candycanearter07 wrote:
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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.
>>
>
> Why did you pass on it?
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It felt kinda confusing to use, and I think the auto-startup script I
had broke on it.
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