Re: [OT] True console in X?

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Lance Simmons wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:06:23AM -0500, ktb wrote:
> 
> > What would be ideal is to be able to emulate the look of console in X
> > and run that on one or more workspaces.
> 
> Use uwm as your window manager, edit the uwmrc.hook file to make
> the borders black and one or two pixels wide, and get rid of the
> title bar entirely. Edit the uwmrc-ws.hook file so you have a
> black desktop on the workspaces where you want your "consoles".

  you can do this with other WMs as well (defintely with fvwm, I am not
100% sure about others)

...
> What makes it work is that uwm lets you have a window border as
> narrow as a single pixel, and doesn't require a title bar.

  at least some WMs (again, I am sure about fvwm only) can turn all the
decorations off (border, title etc.)

	erik