Cool!
Stefan
PS: Tho NetBSD is not a wildly popular system, and AFAIK a large
fraction of NetBSD machines run headless, but still.
Michael O'Donnell [2020-09-28 07:46:49] wrote:
> https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/default_window_manager_switched_to
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> September 28, 2020 posted by Nia Alarie
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> For more than 20 years, NetBSD has shipped X11 with the "classic"
> default window manager of twm. However, it's been showing its age for
> a long time now.
>
> In 2015, ctwm was imported, but after that no progress was made.
> ctwm is a fork of twm with some extra features - the primary advantages
> are that it's still incredibly lightweight, but highly configurable,
> and has support for virtual desktops, as well as a NetBSD-compatible
> license and ongoing development. Thanks to its configuration options,
> we can provide a default experience that's much more usable to people
> experienced with other operating systems.
>
> Recently, I've been installing NetBSD with some people in real life
> and was inspired by their reactions to the default twm to improve the
> situation, so I played with ctwm, wrote a config, and used it myself
> for a week. It's now the default in NetBSD-current.
>
> We gain some nice features like an auto-generated application menu
> (that will fill up as packages are installed to /usr/pkg), and a range
> of useful keyboard shortcuts including volume controls - the default
> config should be fully usable without a mouse. It should also work at
> a range of screen resolutions. We can add HiDPI support after some
> larger bitmap fonts are imported - another advantage of ctwm is that
> we can support very slow and very fast hardware with one config.
>
> If you're curious about ctwm, check out the [41]ctwm website. It's also
> included in previous NetBSD releases, though not as the default window
> manager and not with this config. [......]
>
> 41. https://www.ctwm.org/index.html
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> [......]
