Creating a personal window manager configuration file

If you want to customize your window manager menus, key bindings and mouse button bindings, you can make your changes in either the /usr/lib/X11/system.pmwmrc or the /usr/lib/X11/system.mwmrc file. However, if you want to make customizations for individual users, you should add these changes to the user's personal .pmwmrc or .mwmrc file, located in the user's home directory, instead.

The .pmwmrc and .mwmrc files do not exist in $HOME by default. To create either of these files, copy the corresponding system file to .pmwmrc or .mwmrc in your home directory.

If you have created a personal window manager configuration file, you should note the following:

• The system configuration file is ignored by the system if you have your own .pmwmrc or .mwmrc file. Therefore, your personal file must include the complete sections for menu specifications and button and key binding specifications.

• If you change the default names of any menu, button, or key settings, you must modify the appropriate X resources that define the names.

• Any changes that you designate in your personal window manager configuration file only take effect after you restart the window manager. To do this, select the Restart Window Manager option from the Root menu.

• Blank lines are ignored.

• The ``#'' character at the beginning of a line is regarded as a comment. If the ``!'' character is the first character in a line, the line is also regarded as a comment.
  

• Items or characters that have special meaning are interpreted literally when quoted. For example, if you quote the comment character, it is not interpreted as the comment character.

• Items longer than one character are quoted with double quotes (").

• A single character is quoted by preceding it with a backslash (\).