Re: [ANNOUNCE] Releasing ctwm 3.7 beta2.

From: Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker (richard@levitte.org)
Date: Wed May 04 2005 - 18:34:32 CEST


In message <20050504162238.GA50947@thought.org> on Wed, 4 May 2005 09:22:38 -0700, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> said:

kline> One thing that may help ctwm grow is more documentation
kline> with examples like yours about with accompanying
kline> screenshots. --I find docs with *examples* the best
kline> way to go. For example, some man pages list umpteen
kline> switch options with thumbnail summaries; but having
kline> just a few EXAMPLE offerings at the bottom is a
kline> significant plus++.

So basically, you want a cookbook section...

kline> A final note concerns having xterms in as many workspaces
kline> as desired. I have 10 workspaces on most of my platforms:
kline> ones for "Mail", "Programming", "Writing", "Broswer",
kline> and so on. I wanted at least two xterms in each w-space,
kline> but ctwm kept putting everything in my first workspace,
kline> "SysAdmin". There are probably other ways of accomplishing
kline> this, but I discovered that my linking xterm -> mailxterm
kline> and "ln xterm browserxtem" and editing ~/.ctwmrc
kline> did the trick.

You're doing this with the Occupy variable, right? Isn't there a way
to tell an xterm to have a specific name for you to trigger on?

Cheers,
Richard

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