Can I use a window manager other than twm with MI/X?
Yes. You can tell MI/X not to use the default window manager and then start one on the remote Unix machine. The advantage to using twm is that it runs locally, which makes it much more responsive than other window managers if you have a slow network connection. Note that if you use XDM to connect to a remote machine, MI/X does not run its local copy of twm. Instead it expects the remote session to start its own window manager. Also, if you run in Windows Desktop (a.k.a. Rootless) mode, the MI/X itself acts as the default window manager instead of using twm.
Yes, however twm is the window manager we support. We can’t tell you how to configure other window managers, or even guarantee that they’ll work. Q: (MacOS) How do I configure twm? A: If you put a file named “system.twmrc” in the same folder as the twm program on your computer, the twm program will read configuration settings from it. Consult the documentation, man page, etc. for twm to learn what to put in system.twmrc to configure twm. Note that the current version of MI/X for MacOS does not support the launching of X clients from a twm menu. This may be forthcoming in later versions. Q: (Windows) How do I configure twm? A: The MI/X distribution comes with a file named TNTSERV.TWM. This is twm’s configuration file. To learn the format of TNTSERV.TWM, consult the documentation, man page, etc. for twm. If you wish to create a custom format for twm, you can make a configuration file with any name, and direct twm to use it instead of its default configurations. This is done by using the
