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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Bringing an Xterm window to top Post 302346639 by pidge66 on Sunday 23rd of August 2009 03:24:49 PM
Old 08-23-2009
Thanks! Currently, someone showed me to use a different windows manager, namely, gnome, where left clicking on a window raises it to the top by default. So I'm cool. But I would like to try out the .twmrc approach next time when I am ready to reboot.
 

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gnome-wm(1)							   User Commands						       gnome-wm(1)

NAME
gnome-wm - launch the GNOME window manager SYNOPSIS
gnome-wm [--default-wm wm] [--sm-client-id id] DESCRIPTION
gnome-wm is a shell script which launches the GNOME window manager, metacity. The user may specify that another window manager should be launched, either by using the --default-wm option or by setting the WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: --default-wm wm Launch the window manager wm. --sm-client-id iSpecify the session management ID with which the window manager should be launched. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching the dtwm window manager using --default-wm example% gnome-wm --default-wm dtwm Example 2: Launching the dtwm window manager using WINDOW_MANAGER example% WINDOW_MANAGER=dtwm gnome-wm EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully >0 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/gnome-wm Executable for GNOME window manager ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-panel | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |External | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
metacity(1), gnome-session(1) NOTES
Written by Mark McLoughlin, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003. SunOS 5.10 9 Jan 2003 gnome-wm(1)
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