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Tcl your desktop (IBM)

Posted Jun 8, 2006 22:04 UTC (Thu) by tjc (guest, #137)
Parent article: Tcl your desktop (IBM)

I guess this is a typo...

A successful option to meet both needs is a minimalist window manager that runs on top of a powerful window manager, allowing you just enough flexibility to script with ease.

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Tcl your desktop (IBM)

Posted Jun 9, 2006 5:13 UTC (Fri) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] (5 responses)

I think it's more of a "think-o", if you will, since neither TCL nor Tk are window managers, nor
related to such.

Tcl your desktop (IBM)

Posted Jun 9, 2006 6:50 UTC (Fri) by davidw (guest, #947) [Link] (2 responses)

Well, window managers have been written in Tcl/Tk - tkdesktop, I think, was the name.

Tcl your desktop (IBM)

Posted Jun 9, 2006 20:56 UTC (Fri) by xtifr (guest, #143) [Link] (1 responses)

TkDesk is definitely not a window manager. It's more of a lightweight "desktop environment" designed to run on top of your window manager (rather than underneath it like most newer DEs). It goes well with some of the minimalist window managers--I used to run it with fvwm.

Some people say that Tk is ugly, but I think that simple and stark has its own sort of beauty.

Tcl your desktop (IBM)

Posted Jun 10, 2006 9:16 UTC (Sat) by macc (guest, #510) [Link]

The uglyness thing will be addressed with Tile
a themed widget-set that aimes at native look
on all platforms:

Tile:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/11075
Tile usage, migration, looks:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/2?Tile

Tcl your desktop (IBM)

Posted Jun 9, 2006 9:36 UTC (Fri) by macc (guest, #510) [Link] (1 responses)

tcl/tk has all the functionality needed for
a (scripted) window manager.

see:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/13972

Tcl your desktop (IBM)

Posted Jun 9, 2006 14:15 UTC (Fri) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

That's interesting, thanks for the link. I check out the list at http://xwinman.org/others.php now and then, but I haven't seen this one before.