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

[Jim Lynch]

John Mills wrote:
> 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?
>>     
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Hi, John,

I use icewm.  It has a glitch or two but they are visual not 
functional.  A nice feature of this window manager is the ability to get 
a window list displayed by clicking the middle mouse button over any 
part of the root window.  Another nice feature is the multiple panes.  I 
sometimes (almost always) am multitasking and have to keep more than one 
project up at a time.  I use one pane per project.  Take a look at 
http://cruisinglife.org/images/icewmsample1.png.  That's a snapshot of a 
vncviewer window running icewm.  I've displayed the window list so you 
can see it.  Also note that the panes run along the bottom of the 
screen.  There is only one populated right now but I have 4 defined.  
The buttons marked 1, 2, 3, 4 represent the panes (called workspaces by 
icewm).

It's a pretty lightweight window manager but has a lot of 
functionality.  I'll be glad to share my config with you if you are 
interested.

Jim.