Re: Moving and resizing windows inside window
Re: Moving and resizing windows inside window
- Subject: Re: Moving and resizing windows inside window
- From: Doug Carter <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:15:50 -0700
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 01:57:05PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> On Oct 9, 2009, at 08:19, Doug Carter wrote:
> > > A long, long time ago, before MacOSX, Windows and Linux, X11 had a
> > > very
> > > simple window manager, "twm" and a configuration that allowed you to
> > > move and resize windows with a keyboard-key-mouse-click combination.
> > >
> > > Questions:
> > >
> > > 1. Does anyone remember how to configure this?
>
> If you're really interested in a window manager you can drive with the
> keyboard, I suggest you look beyond twm. There have been a lot of
> interesting things done since then. The phrase to feed google is
> "dynamic window managers", which will mostly find dwm. I'm using wmii,
> though I haven't tried it on the mac. I have used plpwm on the Mac,
> but it's more like the older ratpoison manager than the modern dynamic
> window managers.
>
> Note that most of these are tiling window managers, which twm
> isn't.
I think I need to clarify my request. It's not that I want to run twm,
it's the functionality it provided. Specifically, the ability to move,
resize and iconify windows by clicking anywhere inside a window. I know
that twm has this ability, but wondered if there were XQuartz config
options that would give me the same functionality.
As stated in my original post, I found a utility for the Mac called
Zooom, (http://coderage-software.com/zooom/) which lets me move and
resize windows by clicking anywhere in a window. It works great for Mac
application windows, but not for any X application windows.
As for tiling window managers, I thought all that died with Andrew and
the Andrew window manager (WM). I was never a fan of WM, and prefer the
"messy desk" philosophy. Overall I like the Mac window manager and X11
integration. I just find it annoying that I can only move a window while
on the title bar and can only resize a window by that little icon in
the lower right corner. The functionality twm provided made window
manipulation *very* quick and efficient.
Doug
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