[ale] Back in Time: 'mwm' 'pager' question

[John Mills]

ALErs -

A bit of googling suggests I should rephrase my question. Apparently the 
Motif 'pager' is deprecated. Perhaps explaining the problem will draw some 
suggestions of tools or usage to handle a busy window with a lightweight 
manager.

I'm using 'mwm' just to have a simple window manager for my remote VNC 
sessions. I'm not wedded to 'mwm', but I find it familiar, lightweight, 
and know how to make the basic settings. I suppose I could as well have 
used 'fvwm' or 'WindowMaker'. For native sessions I use SuSE's KDE.

My problem is in changing focus to an application obscured by a number of 
others running on the same window, I often have to minimize a number of 
apps to find the one I want. By 'pager' I meant the small crib-like widget 
that showed a thumbnail for each managed app that was running. I though 
having it would make my navigation a bit easier.

TIA for other suggestions.

  - Mills

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, John Mills wrote:

> I run tightVNC from a SuSE-10.2 box and use 'mwm' to manage those Xvnc
> windows. I would like to start the Motif 'pager' in my exported window but
> I'm not having much luck. In fact I would like to start it with the
> '-iconify' option. What should I add to my '.vnc/startx' or '~/.mwmrc' to
> get the pager running on the window?