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Subject: 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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