I know for Gnome2 / Mate Desktop you could splice in a window manager
using gconf-editor (don't recall the setting). I think LXDE also had
an XML file to edit somewhere in the home directory. Should be a way
to edit and do this in .xinitrc too...

You actually still use twm? You should try a more lightweight distro
that has better support for it. Still works in Arch Linux.

--
Jeremy MountainJohnson
Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com


On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 12:47 PM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote:
>
> twm was fine in natty.  however since maverick it hasn't worked in
> vnc, and now in precise and quantal things are mangled such that twm
> is unusable in X.  depending on various circumstances, either twm
> won't launch, or if it is up, various other apps won't launch, or
> won't work properly.
>
> twm is tiny, simple, and easy.  i like that.  but that's only the
> beginning.  i like that i can place active window icons anywhere on
> the desktop, focus unstolen by appearing windows, title bars that
> don't span the whole window width, vert zoom, horiz zoom, left zoom,
> right zoom, top zoom, bottom zoom..
>
> does another window manager have many, or even any, of these features,
> or could one be configured to have them?
>
> or is it possible to splice twm into some other desktop environment?
> WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/bin/twm gnome-session
> doesn't work.
>
> xpdf is another example of something that has not worked since
> oneiric.  is there hope for twm and xpdf in ubuntu's future, or is the
> world according to ubuntu happy to kill them off?
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