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TWM EMULATOR FOR GWM
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Arup Mukherjee (arup@grasp.cis.upenn.edu)
December, 1989
RESTRICTIONS
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Feel free to do whatever you want with this code, as long as
you respect the gwm copyright for all code derived from the gwm
standard profiles. It would be nice, however, if my name were to
remain in it somewhere.
If you enhance the code in any useful way, or have suggestions
for improvement, I would be happy to hear from you. Send mail to
arup@grip.cis.upenn.edu or arup@grasp.cis.upenn.edu
I DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL I
BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN
CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
Author: Arup Mukherjee, University of Pennsylvania.
GETTING STARTED
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To get get the twm emulator to be loaded and executed, simply
use the command "gwm -f twm" to load it.
This allows you the additional flexibility, if you decide to
customize your setup, to copy twmrc.gwm and/or twm.gwm to your
home (or home/gwm) directory and modify them there.
CUSTOMIZING
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twmrc.gwm :
Numerous options (mainly colors) can be set from here. The
file is well commented, and most of the color variables have
self-explanatory names. You can also specify from here whether or not
the icon manager code is to be loaded (in particular, if you are on a
multi-screen system *and do not want to use the icon manager* you MUST
disable it or the "normal" iconification will not work properly.
.profile.gwm also contains definitions for the three variables
emacs-list, xterm-list, and xload-list. The specified hostnames are
used to build menus from which you can have gwm execute the respective
command on a host via the "rsh" mechanism (note that your .rhosts
files must be set up correctly for this to work). Note that unlike
with the standard profile, the rxterm and rxload scripts are *NOT*
used.
twm.gwm :
The only things that one might wish to customize here are the
behaviors (which specify the action of a given button on a given
portion of the screen). If the twm menu package is too slow on your
machine, you might also want to try loading the standard package from
here.
twm-menus :
The contents of all the menus are specified here. To change
more than the xterm, xload, or emacs lists, you should modify this
file.
MISCELLANEOUS
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Since the twm-titled-win frame type is derived from
simple-ed-win, you can edit the title bar : press ctrl-alt-left on the
title (!).
In future, I plan to add code to produce a drop-down menu of
windows, much like the "TWM Windows" menu that you can get with twm.
If anyone has ideas for other useful features, I'd love to hear them.
Also, I'd like to thank Paul Keener for providing me with
access to a machine with multiple screens to test the namespace stuff
on, Colas Nahaboo for help with debugging at various stages of the
game, and Tom LaStrange, for coming up with the nice twm interface in
the first place.
December, 1989 : Thanks to J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.uk for his redesign
suggestions, and to kaplan@cs.uiuc.edu for information that helped
with debugging.
FILES:
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data/README.twm
data/hilite.xbm
data/iconify.xbm
data/resize.xbm
data/twm-icon-mgr.gwm
data/twm-menus.gwm
data/twm-popups.gwm
data/twm-titled-win.gwm
data/twm.gwm
data/twmrc.gwm