Re: Help needed completing transition to ctwm on Ubuntu

Rhialto <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Jan 2023 22:29:19 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.window-managers.ctwm
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On Thu 26 Jan 2023 at 11:59:26 +0100, Per Backman wrote:
> There should be a ctwm.desktop-file in /usr/share/xsessions, ...

> My ctwm.desktop looks like:
> 
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=CTWM
> Exec=/usr/bin/ctwm
> TryExec=/usr/bin/ctwm
> Icon=
> Type=Application

On my laptop I even found old remnants of a twm.desktop file.
Installing ctwm didn't also install a ctwm.desktop, so you would have to
create it yourself in /usr/share/xsessions. The example only starts ctwm
and nothing else; you probably have a .xessionrc or .xinitrc script to
set up your session, and you can put that in place of Exec= if you want.

If you build ctwm yourself (the one from Ubuntu is 3.7.1 so rather old)
you don't even have to overwrite the packaged one; you can just put it
in $HOME/bin, and if either the .desktop file or the .xsessionrc file
refers to it, it should be used.

Oh, I almost forget: you can choose the "desktop session" from the login
screen. The username box has a thingie that brings up a menu (I'm not
sure if I kept the default desktop manager, but the place to click isn't
obvious if you don't suspect that the feature exists) which lists the
options from /usr/share/xsessions and a few more.

-Olaf.
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