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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MWMRC(5x) LessTif Manuals MWMRC(5x)
NAME
mwmrc - The M*tif Window Manager configuration file
DESCRIPTION
The LessTif window manager mwm supports both a global configuration file /etc/X11/mwm/system.mwmrc and a per-user configation file
~/.mwmrc.
STRUCTURE
Each mwm configuration file consist of blocks of bindings. Each block consists of a block type keyword, a name and a set of entries
between curly braces (`{' and '}').
An exclamation mark (`!') introduces a comment. Comments extend to the end of the line.
Block types
There are three types of blocks:
Menu bindings
Button bindings
Key bindings
Menu bindings
Menu bindings are introduced by the Menu keyword. The generic form of the entries is label mnemonic accelerator function . Both mnemonic
and accelerator may be empty. For example:
"Foo bar" _R Alt<Key>F5 f.restore
Button bindings
Button bindings are introduced by the Buttons keyword. The entries each are Button name Context Function . For example:
<Btn3Down> icon|frame f.post_wmenu
Key bindings
Key bindings are very similar to button bindings. The entries each are Key name Context Function . For example:
Alt<Key>Tab root|icon|window f.next_key
Label
A label is either a plain string, or a bitmap. Bitmaps are indicated as "@" followed by the filename. For example:
mailer @fortytwo.bmp
Mnemonic
A mnemonic is an underscore ("_") followed by a single character. For example:
_M
Accelerator
An accelerator is a key name.
Button name
A button name is Btn followed by the number (1..5) and an action (Up, Down, Click, Click2); for example:
Btn2Click
Context
A context is a single string consisting of bar (`|') separated object names (root, icon, menub, minimizeb, maximizeb , window, title,
frame, border); for example:
icon|title
Function
A function is a string starting with "f.". The functions are: f.beep, f.circle_down, f.circle_up, f.desk, f.exec, f.focus_color,
f.focus_key, f.goto_page, f.kill, f.lower, f.maximize, f.menu, f.minimize, f.move, f.next_cmap, f.next_key, f.nop, f.normalize, f.normal-
ize_and_raise, f.pack_icons, f.pass_keys, f.post_wmenu, f.prev_cmap, f.prev_key, f.quit_mwm, f.raise, f.raise_lower, f.refresh,
f.refresh_win, f.resize, f.restart, f.restore, f.restore_and_raise, f.screen, f.send_msg, f.separator, f.set_behavior, f.title, f.tog-
gle_page, f.window_list.
EXAMPLE
For a complete example, check out /etc/X11/mwm/system.mwmrc or look at the system.mwmrc distributed with the LessTif sources.
AUTHORS
mwm was written by the LessTif project, http://www.lesstif.org/ and others. This manpage was written by Ray Dassen <jdassen@debian.org>.
SEE ALSO
mwm(1x)
LessTif Project JULY 2001 MWMRC(5x)