Johan Vromans on wrote... | Rhialto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > But can it do squeezed window titles (or "tabbed", the t of twm)? | | Not that I know. I've been using the tabs for a long time but somehow | switched them off once (and never on again). So I don't miss it. | | Please keep in mind that I'm not stating that OpenBox is the ultimate | solution for everything. I've mainly decided based on my requirements | (which most likely will be different from yours). | | BTW, AFAIK, the t of twm stands for Tom, from its author, Tom Lastrange. | Particulary interesting since someone created a virtual root version | of twm, vtwm, and Tom then created his version of it: tvtwm -- Tom's | Virtual Tom's Window Manager. | I know what you mean.
It was useful when I had a lab of machines and wanted a login window for each work station all stacked on top of each other, so I could copy and paste commands into the 'rolling' stack (keyboard function to paste, then roll top window to the bottom, so I can paste the next window) But this is a special case, and the tabs were never that useful neven then, except as a means to check which window in the sequence you have pasted into, AND that you have a window to each machine (no tab was missing). It was also a bitch to get the window stack sorted so the tabs were in order! Almost looked a a problem to re-stack those windows into the correct order so the tabs were in sequence. I can live without the tabs. But I could not live without the ctwm ability to handle keyboard mapping. GNOME sucked with its lack of bindable and 'contextual' event handling, which is why I endevored to create a gnome-ctwm methodology that worked reasonable well. Fairly successfully too. I'll Take a look at OpenBox, on my next machine upgrade (very soon) and try to get the desired functions I want available. PS: My biggest headache at this time is GNOME completely destroying the X window resources use for XTERM handling. Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Good programmers write readable code." "Yeah, but REALLY good programmers can read MY code." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony's Home is his Castle http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/