[TUHS] Siemens RTL window manager

[Larry McVoy via TUHS]

Does anyone remeber ctwm an offshoot of twm?  I ran ctwm for years, finally
gave in when I switched to Xubuntu and used their manager.  Did so because
what I was doing was weird and all sorts of stuff didn't work, xubuntu
just works.

On Mon, Feb 09, 2026 at 09:20:04PM -0500, Briam Rodriguez via TUHS wrote:
> Took a bit to get it to crank over, and the mouse support is a bit janky
> (def. not made for a trackpad!) but happy to report it compiles on macos
> 26.2 using xquartz.
> 
> If anyone's interested i can supply the patches.
> 
> -- Briam R.
> 
> On 2/9/26 11:05 AM, Daria Phoebe Brashear via TUHS wrote:
> >Every time I spend time manually tiling windows, I think about the
> >Siemens RTL Window Manager. Despite being approximately X11R4 years
> >old in terms of coming to Unix, binaries of this built from
> >X11R3-contrib were still floating around when I started exploring
> >things past the base environment we were provided; Like the Andrew
> >Window Manager and the port for X11, the source for this was lost for
> >a while but unlike wmc, someone found, patched and shared a copy of
> >the source a while back(+), and I dug out my copy again recently to
> >hopefully play with.
> >
> >Lest the tarball ever become unavailable at the URL from the email,
> >I've pushed a copy to GitHub here:
> >https://github.com/dariaphoebe/rtl-wm
> >
> >
> >+https://lists.suckless.org/dev/1112/10398.html
> >

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