Customizing the window manager

The default window manager operation is largely controlled by a system-wide configuration file, /usr/lib/X11/system.pmwmrc (or, if you opt to run the window manager in mwm mode, /usr/lib/X11/system.mwmrc). This file establishes the contents of the Root and Window menus, how menus and menu options are invoked, and what key and mouse button combinations can be used to manage windows.

Individual users can customize this behavior, using their personal window manager configuration file, $HOME/.pmwmrc or $HOME/.mwmrc.

Other window manager features that you can change, such as the appearance of window frames, icons, and menus, the keyboard focus policy, and how icons are arranged on the display, are controlled through resources.

This chapter discusses:

• changing the default pmwm mode of the SCO Panner window manager to the OSF/Motif mwm mode

• creating a personal window manager configuration file

• the syntax, structure, and content of the window manager configuration file

• using window manager functions

See also:

• ``Customizing window manager menus''

• ``Configuring window manager button bindings''

• ``Configuring window manager key bindings''

• ``OSF/Motif window manager resources''

• ``Introduction to SCO Panner''

• ``Setting SCO Panner resources''

• mwm(XC) manual page