Note also that you can run xterm or other X clients without running a window manager. Titlebars are useful we’ll say more about them in the next section. (See Appendix A, System Management, for details.) When twm is started, you will see it add a titlebar to each window. It may also be started automatically from an. If xdm (the display manager) is starting X on your system, the twm window manager is probably started automatically when you log on. Starting the Window ManagerĪs described in Chapter 2, Getting Started, you start twm from the command line by typing: This chapter discusses each of these subjects in detail, but first we’ll take a look at starting twm. Automatically, when a client is started (to allow you to size and place the client window on the screen).By combinations of keyboard keys and pointer buttons.The twm window manipulation functions can be invoked in four ways: Convert windows to icons and icons to windows.Raise windows (bring them to the front of others).Lower windows (send them to the back of others).Size and position client windows on the screen interactively.The twm window manager is primarily a window manipulation tool. Raising Windows (bringing in front of others)īutton Control of Window Manager Functions Shuffling the Window Stack: Raise and Lower Additional information on customizing the operation of twm is provided in Chapter 10. This chapter describes twm, the standard window manager distributed with X.
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