Okan Demirmen wrote:
On Thu 2008.06.12 at 11:28 -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
Daniel B. wrote:
Hi,
I can't get the response desired to some of the default keybindings in
cwm.
Some of them: M-/, C-/, M-?. With the first and the third, I just hear a
beep (or a Wuff!! in screen). The second delete my window if not in
screen, or just "Wuff!!" in screen.
Any hints? Thank you.
can we see your .cwmrc?
I would try to arise ~/.cwmrc from your home directory. The another
thing is that you should carefully read man pages for cwm and make sure
you understand the meaning of M (meta key).
Meta key is different on different keyboards. So I do not know what is
meta key on your key board but on mine IBM (M type) it is ALT. I like
CWM very, very much but I didn't ditch the
OpenBox just because I thing that CWM is rapidly changing and the
configuration process is not 100% bullet proof. Namely if you go to
web-site CWM you will see that configuration is very different than of
the one in the base of OpenBSD. So obviously it has been modified by
OpenBSD developers. I must however say that CWM looks impressive to me
and I hope they fix few issues and maybe introduce few new features
which would probably make it one of the best WM around.
yes, our cwm is now very different.
can you elaborate on the "few issues"? there are a few, but i'm sure
you can help by informing us of issues we are not yet aware ;)
Disclaimer: I played with CWM little bit so
my statements should not be taken too seriously.
I personally had hard time trying to configure CWM to lunch
applications. In another words
according to documentation on
CWM web site one needs to edit
~/.calmwm
but OpenBSD man pages say that
~/.cwmrc
is correct file to edit.
Even after the editing ~/.cwmrc I could not
open the menu with the right button on the mouse which according to
CWM web-site should list the applications.
That was on OpenBSD 4.2 release. I have not pursue the issue seriously
as according to
discussion on misc about WM from about 2-3 months ago CWM is in development.
The only thing that I personally miss in CWM
are virtual desktops. I DO know that if people start saying things like
that and developers start listening the CWM will soon become bloated. I
do not wish that. CWM is one of the best because it is minimalistic and
gets job done. It is also great thing that is in the base.
I think VDESK package from ports can accomplish virtual desktops on
CWM. I might be able to get used to grouping if I play more with CWM
which I probably will do if you tell me that the above is caused by my
stupidity and not by actual problem with the code.
Another feature that is appealing for me is
Xinerama support. Again that might make code more bloated which I do not
want to see.
Thank you for your HARD work,
Predrag
P. S. By the way I liked CWM so much that I configured key binding in
OpenBox to behave on exactly the same way as in CWM so I am very close
to switch to CWM.
