I know for Gnome2 / Mate Desktop you could splice in a window manager using gconf-editor (don't recall the setting). I think LXDE also had an XML file to edit somewhere in the home directory. Should be a way to edit and do this in .xinitrc too... You actually still use twm? You should try a more lightweight distro that has better support for it. Still works in Arch Linux. -- Jeremy MountainJohnson Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 12:47 PM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: > > twm was fine in natty. however since maverick it hasn't worked in > vnc, and now in precise and quantal things are mangled such that twm > is unusable in X. depending on various circumstances, either twm > won't launch, or if it is up, various other apps won't launch, or > won't work properly. > > twm is tiny, simple, and easy. i like that. but that's only the > beginning. i like that i can place active window icons anywhere on > the desktop, focus unstolen by appearing windows, title bars that > don't span the whole window width, vert zoom, horiz zoom, left zoom, > right zoom, top zoom, bottom zoom.. > > does another window manager have many, or even any, of these features, > or could one be configured to have them? > > or is it possible to splice twm into some other desktop environment? > WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/bin/twm gnome-session > doesn't work. > > xpdf is another example of something that has not worked since > oneiric. is there hope for twm and xpdf in ubuntu's future, or is the > world according to ubuntu happy to kill them off? > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list