[ On Sunday, October 14, 2001 at 16:13:03 (-0400), Jan Schaumann wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: NetBSD Desktop
>
> Yes - bbpager:
> http://bbtools.thelinuxcommunity.org/available.phtml#bbpager
> 
> Man-pages for bbpager and some other bbtools can be obtained from
> http://www.netmeister.org/misc/m2p2/
> 
> >  If so does/can it render the icon name in each window?
> 
> AFAIK, no.

bummer -- that's pretty much a high-priority requirement AFIAC

> > I kinda like icons too, though I usually have too many of them :-).
> 
> In Blackbox, Icons are managed kinda as a separate Desktop.  You don't
> see the icons, but if you pop the root-menu and go into the
> workspaces/Desktops submenu, there is a "Icons" submenu with all your
> iconified icons.  Once you select an item, it is de-iconified and
> restored to the (IIRC) current desktop.

Yeah, I've got a "windows" menu in ctwm too (though it would be nice if
it were organised by sub-menus for each workspace as it seems the
blackbox one might be, and it should show the full icon title, not the
window title, for iconised windows).  I can have an "icon manager"
window too (as can plain old twm).

All in all it sounds like blackbox isn't (yet) a suitable replacement
for ctwm for my purposes.

It's probably also a bit less portable than ctwm, being C++ and all....
I can still build and use ctwm on any Unix with X11R4 or newer, even
with just a K&R compiler (eg. SunOS-4).

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