Followup to my previous message.
I am still trying to get ctwm working as I need it to on my 'new' PC 'chill' (acquired from Chillblast Mid 2020) now running Ubuntu. Background: After several upgrades of Fedora, I gave up on Fedora 37 after it gave me too many problems that I could not solve, or find working recommendations for solving, including networking problems, problems with audio output and inability to run zoom. So I switched to Ubuntu and have been trying and failing to install ctwm, until a colleague curious to try ctwm pointed me at a solution that had worked on his laptop running ubuntu when he tried it out of curiosity: He wrote: > I found it here: > > https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2429141 > > it's a contribution from a user called cruzer001. > I was simply searching for how to use ctwm with ubuntu. So I decided to try what he had found. It enabled me to start ctwm with a 4x2 array of workspaces (I'll increase that to 4x3 shortly) and a collection of menus with options that I did not need or understand, but no way to launch an xterm window in the current workspace -- one of the most important requirements for me. (As mentioned in my previous message the specifications given for launching the above ctwm implementation are unusual: First log out! At the login screen, press Ctrl + Alt + F3 and then login Then enter: startx /usr/bin/ctwm where ctwm is an executable dated 2020 -- i.e. fairly recent. I wonder whether the author of that version of ctwm is on this list and can tell me how to edit the menus specification to add ability to launch an xterm window. Once I have that running I'll use the xterms to download and set up poplog, which will allow me to use the Poplog editor and other tools, and eventually restore my old working configuration. It's possible that I cannot use that ctwm executable if it was designed only to meet some very specific requirements, using specific executables invoked in its menus. If that's the case, what would be the best alternative recommendation for installing ctwm on ubuntu at present? There seem to be different recommendations for installing ctwm in different places with different dates! Is there an ubuntu user on this list with relevant experience? Thanks. Aaron http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs
