On my list to bring up sometime, and now's as good as any: let's
simultaneously accept that it's not 1990, and we're not twm anymore,
and relocate our install files.

Our current install looks like this:

/usr/local/bin/ctwm
/usr/local/lib/X11/twm/images/[...  whole bunches of .xpm  ...]
/usr/local/lib/X11/twm/system.ctwmrc
/usr/local/man/man1/ctwm.1.gz

(sub /usr/local with /usr or whatever your $PREFIX might be)

The binary and manpage are fine, they're where they should be.  The
fallback config, I'm not sure serves much purpose as a running file;
it's the fallback that's compiled into ctwm, so it's of more use as an
example than as a running config.  And aside from looking under twm
for ctwm, it's a weird place nowadays for config files.


So I suggest we shuffle things around so that we still have

$PREFIX/bin/ctwm
$PREFIX/man/man1/ctwm.1.gz   # or share/man if that exists

but otherwise create something more like

$PREFIX/share/ctwm/images/[...  whole bunches of .xpm  ...]
$PREFIX/share/ctwm/samples/system.ctwmrc

for the install files, and change the search to look for a

$PREFIX/etc/system.ctwmrc

for the next-to-last-ditch config location (which will be empty from
the ctwm install, only something put there if the admin decides to,
which probably is a pretty meaningless case nowadays).


Also, it might be handy to go ahead and install the HTML version of
the manual, and possibly the CHANGES as well.  Having our own
share/ctwm/ gives us good homes for those.


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