The twm package contains a very minimal window manager.
This package is provided for testing the completed Xorg installation.
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.
Download (HTTP): https://www.x.org/pub/individual/app/twm-1.0.12.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/twm-1.0.12.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 805ee08b5a87e1103dfe2eb925b613b4
Download size: 260 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.8 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/twm
Install twm by running the following commands:
sed -i -e '/^rcdir =/s,^\(rcdir = \).*,\1/etc/X11/app-defaults,' src/Makefile.in && ./configure $XORG_CONFIG && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root
user:
make install
sed -i -e '/^rcdir =/s...: This command ensures the twm configuration file gets installed in the proper location.