04-19-2013
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Originally Posted by
Corona688
I dislike the trend of becoming more dependent on the GUI when there was no need. I also dislike the trend where KDE and the like keep incorporating Windows features everyone hates the most just to make it "familiar" instead of extending on features we want. I'd rather have tab completion for filenames than autocomplete -- tab complete at least waits to be asked before filling in a garbage wrong guess.
Worse, they're becoming the only way some bits of hardware can be used. Like bluetooth. They had excellent commandline support for it then gutted it and left it to rot. How're you supposed to automate that? Why should you need a working X server to use a bluetooth keyboard?
+1 from my side! You put very well what i was thinking the last years.
I myself use
mwm (Motif Window Manager) without any "desktop" or
fvwm configured to look like
mwm, but i prefer
mwm because it can be so simply configured.
fvwm typically has a 50k-configuration file with hundreds and thousands of options.
IMHO
mwm has the most elegant appearance of them all. The overwhelming majority of my windows are
xterms and Mozilla sessions and the only "menu" i need is the one i get when i right-click the root window. In this menu i have several xterm-entries in different colours for the various tasks (for instance root-windows have a different colour scheme so they stand out from non-root windows).
bakunin
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LWM(1) General Commands Manual LWM(1)
NAME
lwm - Lightweight Window Manager for the X Window System
SYNTAX
lwm [ -s session-id ]
DESCRIPTION
Lwm is a window manager for the X Window System. It provides enough features to allow the user to manage their windows, and no more.
Windows are surrounded by a frame with a titlebar at the top next to a small box. The frame is a grey colour for all windows except that
which has the input focus, where it is black.
In the default configuration, lwm uses the enter-to-focus scheme, where moving the pointer into a window gives that window the input focus.
Lwm may also be configured to use the click-to-focus scheme, where a window must be clicked on (with any button) to receive the input
focus. Clicking on a window in this mode causes the window to be raised. Note that a click used to focus a window is always swallowed by
lwm, so clicking a button in a new window requires two clicks.
A button 1 click on a window frame brings that window to the top. Dragging button 1 on the frame of a resizable window repositions that
edge of the window. If a corner rather than an edge is dragged, then both edges forming the corner are repositioned. While you're reshaping
a window, a little window pops up to show you the window's current size.
In the default configuration, button 1 on the root window does nothing.
Button 2 is used to drag a window by its frame, repositioning the window but maintaining its position in the window stack.
In the default configuration, button 2 on the root window brings up a new shell.
A button 3 click on a window frame hides that window. Pressing button 3 on the root window brings up a menu of all the hidden windows.
Releasing the button while over an item will unhide the named window.
A button 3 click in the frame while Shift is held down pushes the window to the back, under any other windows. (Users with 4-button mice
are encouraged to use their fourth button for this function.)
A click with any button inside the little white box in a window's frame can be used to close the window.
OPTIONS
Lwm accepts the following command line options:
-s specifies a client ID for the X Session Management system, and is used exclusively by session managers.
RESOURCES
Lwm understands the following X resources:
titlefont font used in window titles
popupFont font used in popup window (menu/size indicator)
border width in pixels of window borders
button1 program spawned when button 1 is clicked on the root window
button2 program spawned when button 2 is clicked on the root window
focus focus mode, one of "enter" for enter-to-focus (or sloppy focus), or "click" for click-to-focus
SEE ALSO
X(7)
AUTHORS
Elliott Hughes <ehughes@bluearc.com>, James Carter <james@jfc.org.uk>
LWM(1)