[xubuntu-users] modern window-manager for an old ctwm user?

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:45:37PM -0400, Carl Alexander wrote:
> Hi all---
> 
> I'm an old X hand who's been away for a while.  A few weeks
> ago  I installed xubuntu 11.10 --- my first x11 head in five
> years.  I've been using it without customizing the UI, so as
> to get comfortable with the new normal.   Now I have a pretty
> good idea what I love about the new --- and what I miss about
> the old.  So I'm looking for some advice, which I suspect
> will take the form of recommendations for window-managers.
> 
I'm rather the same, I hanker after the abilities of FVWM but, in the
end, I find that XFCE does most things the way I want.

I found that while devilspie sounds like it does a lot of what I miss
from FVWM it doesn't do it in the scriptable/controllable fashion that I
want.  I've ended up using wmctrl in a custom script run from .xprofile.

> There are two critical features ctwm that I want from a new 
> window-manager:  DontMoveOff, and Occupy.
> 
I don't think I can help much on these though it might be that wmctrl
can do some of it.  For example the -t option *might* do your Occupy.

> 
> Other ctwm features I would really _like_ in a new window-manager,
> but aren't critical, include windows that are ilterally tabbed 
> (that is, the titlebar occupies a fraction of the top of the
> window --- like the tab on a file folder).

That's to do with the Window Manager settings in XFCE's Settings, have a
play with that and Appearance, you can change a lot of the look with
those. 

>                                              Another is "NoTitle",
> which sets a list of apps whose windows won't be given titlebars.
> that won't be given titlebars).  And configurable menus, bound 
> to various kinds of clicks on the workspace background.
> 
I'm sure this is possible but I can't find how to do it just now.

> If this sounds like a window-manager you know, please let me
> know.  
> 

-- 
Chris Green