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Customizing mwm
This chapter describes the syntax of the .mwmrc startup file that can be used to customize the operation of the mwm window manager. It describes how to bind functions to keys and how to define your own mwm menus. This chapter also explains how to set up mwm to use an icon box, a window in which icons on the display can be organized.
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Activating Changes to the Window Manager
Component Appearance Resources
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Customizing mwm
The Motif window manager is one of the more flexible window managers available in the X market today. As we saw in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, mwm provides a wide variety of methods for managing windows (i.e., moving, resizing, iconifying, etc.). In addition, virtually every feature of mwm can be customized. You can change the appearance of window frames, icons, and menus, the functions available on the Root Menu and the Window Menu, the keyboard focus policy, how icons are arranged on the display, as well as the appearance of client applications running with mwm. As we'll see, you can also create additional menus, displayed from the root window, to perform actions on the display as a whole.
Customization of mwm is controlled in two ways:
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