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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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
tixmwm
tixMwm(n) Tix Built-In Commands tixMwm(n)
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NAME
tixMwm - Communicate with the Motif(tm) window manager.
SYNOPSIS
tixMwm option pathName ?args?
COMMAND OPTIONS
tixMwm decoration pathName ?option? ?value ...?
When no options are given, this command returns the values of all the decorations options for the toplevel window with the pathName.
When only one option is given without specifying the value, the current value of that option is returned.
When more than one "option value" pairs are passed to this command, the specified values will be assigned to the corresponding
options. As a result, the appearance of the Motif decorations around the toplevel window will be changed.
Possible options are: -border, -menu, -maximize, -minimize, -resizeh and -title. The value must be a Boolean value. The values
returned by this command are undefined when the window is not managed by mwm.
tixMwm ismwmrunning pathName
This returns true if mwm is running on the screen where the specified window is located, false otherwise.
tixMwm protocol pathName
When no additional options are given, this command returns all protocols associated with this toplevel window.
tixMwm protocol pathName activate protocol_name
Activate the mwm protocol message in mwm's menu.
tixMwm protocol pathName add protocol_name menu_message
Add a new mwm protocol message for this toplevel window. The message is identified by the string name specified in protocol_name. A
menu item will be added into mwm's menu as specified by menu_message. Once a new mwm protocol message is added to a toplevel, it can
be catched by the TK wm protocol command. Here is an example:
tixMwm protocol . add MY_PRINT_HELLO
{"Print Hello" _H Ctrl<Key>H}
wm protocol . MY_PRINT_HELLO {puts Hello}
tixMwm protocol pathName deactivate protocol_name
Deactivate the mwm protocol message in mwm's menu.
tixMwm protocol pathName delete protocol_name
Delete the mwm protocol message from mwm's menu. Please note that the window manager protocol handler associated with this protocol
(by the wm protocol command) is not deleted automatically. You have to delete the protocol handle explicitly. E.g.:
tixMwm protocol . delete MY_PRINT_HELLO
wm protocol . MY_PRINT_HELLO {}
BUGS
On some versions of Mwm, the -border will not disappear unless -resizeh is turned off. Also, the -title will not disappear unless all of
-title, -menu, -maximize and -minimize are turned off.
KEYWORDS
Tix(n)
Tix 4.0 tixMwm(n)