Alexander Polakov wrote:
* Predrag Punosevac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080613 11:53]:
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.
Bloated? What are you talking about? dwm [1] is less that 2000 LOC and it has
virtual desktops, various tiling alghorithms, nice panel, window
matching and what not.
[1] http://dwm.suckless.org
We were not even talking about dynamic window manager dwm. We were
talking about CWM which is in the base. Those are two different things.
Have you ever tried dwm?
Do you know that when you try to use full screen mode in Xpdf on dwm the
Xpdf will be unable to find it because of the way dwm is coded. Have you
tried panel for dwm?
Please do and then lets talk about it.
I like dwm but it is not for everyone. One of the reasons I said what I
said above about CWM is that I would like to see CWM remaining as
minimal as possible which in practical terms means competing with DWM
which is the king of minimal.
Best,
Predrag Punosevac OKO
