[ale] minimal wm

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Mon Nov 17 20:41:11 EST 2003


On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 20:26, Stephen Turner wrote:
> hey this fvwm looks snazzy but twm? the default manager that comes with
> xfree86 how configurable is that? i should say how easy and how much can
> it be customized :-p 

Gee, Stephen, you're sure showing your age, er, youth! :)

twm was all there was for a very long time. I still have scientific
machines that use X for multiple process display and use twm for it's
absolute minimal load on the system. It is configurable using the most
basic of configuration tools, vi on an rc file. twm can be very
customized to have all sorts of stuff load from menu's. 
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