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Questions tagged [twm]

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switching windows in twm with keyboard shortcuts

I am using a system that runs twm and I am wondering if it is possible to switch between windows using keyboard shortcuts, as I do in gnome with Alt+Tab.
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Keyboard & mouse not responding in X11 / XWindows

I’ve built a Linux from Scratch (LFS) instance. It is based on version 10 of LFS, it is SystemV based. I’ve been working on getting XWindows working. When I run the xinit or startx, XWindows displays without problem. The items that are defined in my…
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How to open apps on TWM window manager without using xterm

My machine boots into command-line and then I run the following command to open a display with TWM window manager on it: $ xinit /usr/local/bin/twm On TWM, this is how I run apps: I left-click anywhere on the black screen and a menu shows up. Then…
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Xorg/Twm window has focus only when mouse is over

I have Xorg with Twm and xterm installed on Arch linux, and when I start the X server, I can type in xterm only when the mouse pointer is over its window. I have been searching options to Xorg and Twm which can have something related with focus when…
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Logout X Session When Application Closes

I'm setting up X with TWM so that folks here can access one specific graphical application. I have it setup so one can VNC in, log-in using XDM and have said application automatically start up. What I'd like to do is have it automatically log-out of…
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Switch to TWM in Fedora 20

I want to use TWM without, say, GNOME or KDE or Xfce. Just plain TWM, no frills. I'm new to the whole desktop environment/window/display manager aspect so I'm not sure how I should go about setting this up.
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Is TWM still a viable window manager?

I have been using mainly KDE on my main desktop for a while now and have decided it is too bloated (e.g., my issue with Desktop indexing with KDE) and was thinking of switching to LXDE because it is "lighter". I realized if I want to go light, then…
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twm (Tab Window Manager): disabling keyboard bell

I would like to disable the keyboard bell in twm (Tab Window Manager). How do I do that?
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TWM f.exec automatic

When executing an application either through the terminal or through the TWM menu, it waits for you to click button 1 in order to continue with the process. I think the question is understood, when executing xterm or any application like firefox, to…
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Why does my window manager (stumpwm) show a cross on the mouse pointer when it is over the root window?

My mouse pointer turns into a cross when there are no elements under it other than the root window. I've been having this issue with stumpwm since I installed it, but I know that a cross over the root window is a normal occurrence in twm or any…
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How to start the twm manager on a system which already has a window manager ?

I am using linux mint codename rebecca with xface. I tried to follow a description how to start a window manager of once choice: created an empty .xinitrc file in my homefolder filled the file with "exec twm" ran command "xinit" but all I got was…
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Position window automaticly in TWM

The man pages of TWM tells me that if I specify a -geometry [size x size] + offset + offset, TWM will honor this and create the window in that location. For which types of windows is this possible? It is possible to set a geometry for xclock and…
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customizing size of emacs windows in twm, depending on the vnc session

I connect to the same Unix system (that runs tab windows manager, twm) via vnc. I connect from a laptop with a small screen and from a workstations with a large screen. I have started two different vnc sessions with two different --geometry setting…
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does anybody know this window manager

I am connecting to a cluster with the window manager as in the picture. Does anybody know which WM it is? It does not have even a menu I can open like in twm
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In TWM, how to move a window that is completely offscreen?

I've managed to get GIMP starting up completely off-screen somehow. Other applications are unaffected because they use click-to-place, but GIMP wants to just place it's own window. What methods are there to get this window back on-screen? I can see…
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