Does anyone have a good ctwm config?

nortonham

I've been playing around with netBSD again. Does anyone use ctwm and does anyone have any good configs? I've found a few online but they don't do much for me, and I feel there are less online resources for it.

JuvenalUrbino

nortonham mine's here, that's the one from the Rpi3 screenshot on the NetBSD gallery; relevant Xresources

trinity

I have a ctwmrc myself and it heavily references datagubbe configurations. However it doesn't take advantage of any ctwm-only features and has few keybindings (I use an external keybind daemon). The ctwm manpage is well-written and a good starting point (paired with an existing config, imo).

nortonham

trinity

Thank you for your response. The man page is fine, I just sometimes feel overwhelmed. Having other configs to compare/contrast helps me out.

JuvenalUrbino

Some small changes I introduced lately:

A decent workaround to emulate the warpToWindow function of fvwm and xmonad:

Function "warp-to-window" { f.warpring "next" f.warpring "prev" }

This may be coupled with f.gotoworkspace

Another nice to have is the built-in per-workspace window list menu (TwmWindows) and the global one (TwmAllWindows).

So, for example we may bind:

Button2   =      : root : f.menu "TwmAllWindows"
"period"  = mod1 : all  : f.menu "TwmAllWindows" # WINDOW LIST, ALL WKSPC
"comma"   = mod1 : all  : f.menu "TwmWindows"    # WINDOW LIST, THIS WKSPC

Finally, to make ctwm invoke an autostart script

syscmd(`sh $HOME/.ctwm/autostart > /dev/null 2>&1')