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I'm surprised that OpenBSD CWM is not in the ports tree. Has anyone recently had a go at porting it? I can only find old discussions about this.
 
Blueprint said:
I'm surprised that OpenBSD CWM is not in the ports tree. Has anyone recently had a go at porting it? I can only find old discussions about this.
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That code to my knowledge has never been made as a separate tarball although I have seen OpenBSD developers talking about it. Few years back somebody posted a tarball on this forum. I am not sure if it made it to ports tree. There is a significant difference between old CWM which was originally used as code base/inspiration for OpenBSD version and the current OpenBSD version.

One of the things I miss the most when I am forced to work on non OpenBSD platform is my CWM. It is simply brilliant simple peace of software.
 
I just tried it on CentOS. Yes, that built without problems. (I did have to install byacc).

It reminds me of evilwm. A nice choice for a default window manager, offering a few essential (to me) things for your terminal, unlike RH's minimalist matchbox, which has no keyboard shortcuts to move and resize windows. (As far as I could tell, anyway.)

@oko, don't know if that evilwm would work for you, but it's available on FreeBSD, available as a package, I think, on most Debian based Linux, and easy to build on RH based systems. I have no idea what your other platforms are or whether you'd consider it a possible substitute, but figured that it can't hurt to mention it.
 
scottro said:
@oko, don't know if that evilwm would work for you, but it's available on FreeBSD, available as a package, I think, on most Debian based Linux, and easy to build on RH based systems. I have no idea what your other platforms are or whether you'd consider it a possible substitute, but figured that it can't hurt to mention it.
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Thanks a bunch Scottro! I heard of evilwm before but never tried.

Beside OpenBSD which we use for core network infrastructure in our lab, I run FreeNAS on file servers, Springdale Linux (Princeton University RedHat clone) on our computing nodes and desktops (except mine which runs OpenBSD). We also use ROCKS cluster distribution.

If there was MATLAB and Oracle Java version for FreeBSD I could clean the Lab of Linux :h .
 
There is a nice little tutorial about it on the Debian forums. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=15077
The default keybindings are rather similar which is what made cwm remind me of evilwm. (Obviously, on the Debian forums tutorial you can skip the part about doing a minimal Debian install).

EDIT: According to the Arch Linux wiki at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/evilwm, you can also resize the windows in the same way as one does with cwm, adding shift to the movement keys. I hadn't known that.
 
Also wanted to add that if doing this in a RedHat clone, apparently, you have to install the xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi package. Otherwise, it will fail to start with a note that it can't find a proper font. It will do this even if you have terminus-fonts or xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi. (This is judging by one CentOS VM).
 
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