On 05/14/2012 08:50 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> On 5/14/12, DJ Lucas<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>> Heh, no I'd shoot myself if subjected to it for too long. Just meeting
>> the most minimal requirements for a Java rebuild, and for that, a decent
>> WM was not high priority....but will be in about 10 minutes. That's
>> still 190 packages in (-LFS packages included but not individual xorg
>> packages)...probably just over the halfway point. Now I have heard that
>> somebody is actually taking the time to modernize twm, but the only
>> evidence I've seen of it is that it still builds against Xorg-7.7. Years
>> ago I had seen some pretty elaborate twmrc setups, but I've never taken
>> the time.
> I agree that twm is not a wm that you want to spend a lot of time
> with, but it's extreme simplicity makes it a good choice for testing
> after building X.
>
>    -- Bruce
twm *can* be made to act modern-ish!

http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/projects/twmrc

6 work spaces, a full applications menu (right click like flux/black), 
sane windowing behavior, etc....:-)

-- DJ


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