On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 23:04:10 +0200 Tina Holmboe <t...@greytower.net> wrote: | On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 09:46:04PM +0100, Aaron Sloman wrote: | | > > New to the list, long-time CTWM addict^H^H^H^H^Huser, | > > wondering if I'm the last one on the planet. | > | > I don't know if anyone else replied to you but you are not. | | Definetly. Most interesting reply. I've been using ctwm since | the early 1990ies, now, and I'm damned if I am switching. | | As you point out in your little article, neither Gnome nor | KDE even approach the flexibility I want from the desktop | I spend so many hours using each day. | | http://www.fogdo.net/ctwm.png | | And, yes. Of course the window border turn bright red on | (auto) focus :) | | One day I'll write up a blogpost on exactly WHY I find the others so | absolutely useless for anything but the most simple of tasks. | | I have, for example, not even bothered finding out how to replicate | my favourite shortcut: shift-alt-[hjkl] for shifting between the | main desktops, or the oldie but goldie ctrl-[right|left]-mouse for | resize and move respectively. | | Not giving ctwm up until they pry it from my cold, dead harddrive.' | | My ONLY problem is finding out why Firefox and VirtualBox both | crash the wm :( | |
I felt the same way, but the interaction with the newer appliacations started to become just too painful. Many CTwm users switched to Openbox, so eventually switched. I even managed to get most of the look at feel I had in my CTWM moved over into a OpenBox Theme. The big point of Openbox is that much of the same style of event handling control you have in CTwm (and traditional WM's) is available. I can reprogram various buttons and keys to do what I want, rather than what the developers 'think' I want. Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <a.thys...@griffith.edu.au> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. -- C.S. Lewis -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony's Castle http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/anthony/