On 12May2012 21:50, Jim Graham <spooky1...@gmail.com> wrote: | On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:40:27PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > and I miss my infinite desktops setup I use under FVWM). I do turn off | > the "when switching to an app, switch to a desktop with its window" | > setting in the spaces prefs. | | Ok, here's a question for you: can I use ctwm for my window manager | under X11? ctwm (and before it, twm) has been my preferred wm since | MIT X11R4.....
Definitely. As I remarked, the GF uses icewm. The startup is slightly different to other X11 platforms. In particular, you want to make a ~/.xinitrc.d directory and make a file in it named something like "99-wm.sh". The 99 is to arrange that it runs after anything else in there. In that you would put: #!/bin/sh USERWM=ctwm That should tell the startup scripts to use ctwm instead of quart-wm (the default). Of course it needs read and execute permissions like any other shell script, so: chmod +rx ~/.xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion; - T.S. Eliot, _The Hollow Men_
