What Runs Where on Athena: Screen Accessories

Title and description:

afterstep
Description: window manager based on the look and feel of the NeXTStep interface

To run: in windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers and home page

See also: fvwm, gwm, icewm, lwm, mwm, nawm, 9wm, twm, vtwm.gamma, windowmaker

Title and description:

ctwm
Description: variant of twm modified to accommodate the use of several virtual screens (workspaces). It can use colored, shaped icons and background root pixmaps in XPM format [from Arnaud Le Hors] and any format understood by the imconv package

To run: in windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers and home page

See also: fvwm, gwm, icewm, lwm, mwm, nawm, 9wm, twm, vtwm.gamma

Title and description:

fvwm, fvwm2, fvwm2.4, fvwm95
Description: variants of twm, redesigned to minimize memory consumption, provide a 3-D look to window frames, and provide a simple virtual desktop. Memory consumption is estimated at about one-half to one-third the memory consumption of twm. fvwm95 has a look-and-feel more like Windows 95

To run: all of these are in the windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers; on Linux machines, one or more of these may also be supplied as part of the Linux distribution. Also, fvwm home page, fvwm95 home page

See also: afterstep, ctwm, gwm, icewm, lwm, mwm, nawm, 9wm, twm, vtwm.gamma, windowmaker

Note:

fvwm95 is partially broken on Linux (clicking on the start button exits the panel)

Title and description:

gwm
Description: window manager that is extensible via a built-in lisp interpreter. Can emulate various other window managers and be extensively user-customized

To run: in windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers and home page

See also: afterstep, ctwm, fvwm, mwm, nawm, twm, vtwm.gamma

Title and description:

icewm
Description: yet another window manager...

To run: in windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers and home page

See also: afterstep, ctwm, fvwm, mwm, vtwm.gamma

Title and description:

lwm
Description: basic, very simple window manager with low configurability

To run: in windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers and home page

See also: afterstep, ctwm, fvwm, mwm, ratpoison

Title and description:

metacity
Description: Window manager supplied with Gnome user interface, the standard Athena Window manager in Athena release 9.4. See release documentation for additional details of configuration options

To run: see note on changing window managers and information page

See also: mwm

Title and description:

mwm
Description: Motif Window Manager, incorporating "Motif look-and-feel". Default window manager on Athena 8.4 and earlier.

To run: see note on changing window managers and information page

See also: afterstep, ctwm, fvwm, gwm, icewm, lwm, metacity, nawm, 9wm, twm, vtwm.gamma, windowmaker

Title and description:

nawm
Description: "Not A Window Manager"; from the man page: nawm is a Window Squid(tm) that replaces the need for a window manager. It's crude, featureless and incredibly small and fast! It allows you to do virtually everything you'd with keyboard commands that you configure yourself in an almost assembly language way. The big advantage of it is that you get to keep your memory for more useful things

To run: in windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers

See also: afterstep, ctwm, fvwm, gwm, mwm, ratpoison, twm, vtwm.gamma

Title and description:

ratpoison
Description: minimalist window manager that maximizes use of screen area, avoids mouse use

To run: in windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers and home page

See also: lwm, nawm, twm

Title and description:

9wm
Description: window manager that attempts to emulate the window management policies of Plan 9's 8-1/2 window manager

To run: in windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers

See also: afterstep, ctwm, fvwm, mwm, vtwm.gamma

Title and description:

twm
Description: Tab Window Manager (formerly Tom's Window Manager). It provides titlebars, shaped windows, several forms of icon management, user-defined macro functions, click-to-type and pointer-driven keyboard focus, and user-specified key and pointer button bindings.

To run: see note on changing window managers

See also: afterstep, ctwm, fvwm, gwm, mwm, nawm, ratpoison, vtwm.gamma, windowmaker

Title and description:

vtwm.gamma
Description: twm variant with lots of enhancements

To run: in windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers

See also: afterstep, ctwm, fvwm, gwm, icewm, mwm, nawm, 9wm, twm

Title and description:

windowmaker
Description: window manager designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop Environment; tries to be compatible with the NeXTStep interface

To run: in windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers

See also: afterstep, fvwm, mwm, twm

Title and description:

Eterm
Description: "enhanced" terminal emulator, incorporates advanced graphics capabilities

To run:

athena% add outland

athena% Eterm &

See also: gnome-terminal, rxvt, xterm

Title and description:

gnomecal
Description: desktop calendar

To run:

athena% add outland

athena% gnomecal &

See also: pscal, TechTime, xcal, xtc

Title and description:

gnome-calculator
Description: desktop calculator

To run:

athena% gnome-calculator &

See also: dc, nickle, xcalc

Title and description:

gnome-control-center
Description: allows user to set various desktop preferences

To run:

athena% gnome-control-center &

See also: gnome-font-properties, nautilus

Title and description:

gnome-font-properties
Description: allows user to set various desktop font attributes

To run:

athena% gnome-font-properties &

See also: gnome-control-center, nautilus, xfontsel

Title and description:

gnome-terminal
Description: creates an enhanced terminal window with pull-down menus contaning commands that affect a variety of window attributes

To run:

athena% gnome-terminal (or click on Prompt button on Gnome applet bar)

See also: Eterm, rxvt, screen, xterm

Title and description:

ical
Description: X based calendar program

To run:

athena% add tcl

athena% ical &

See also: pscal, TechTime, xcal, xtc

Title and description:

less
Description: bidirectional text file pager- allows scrolling forward and backward through a text file, with search capability

To run:

athena% less textfile

See also: more

Title and description:

more
Description: text file pager- allows scrolling forward through a text files, with search capability. Often used in conjunction with other applications that output text

To run:

athena% more textfile

See also: less

Title and description:

nautilus
Description: file manager incorporating multimedia and application autolaunch capabilities

To run:

athena% nautilus &

See also: gnome-control-center, gnome-font-properties

Title and description:

pscal
Description: calendar program that prints hardcopy calendars by month, suitable for annotating daily activities

To run:

athena% add postscript

athena% pscal month year (example: pscal 5 2000)

See also: gnomecal, ical, TechTime, xcal, xtc

Note:

the PRINTER environment variable must be defined when you use this application, or else you will need to use the -Pprintername command-line switch

Title and description:

rxvt
Description: "slimmed down" terminal emulator, having fewer features and using less swap space than xterm. Consequently it can run faster and uses fewer system resources

To run:

athena% add outland

athena% rxvt &

See also: Eterm, gnome-terminal, xterm

Title and description:

screen
Description: full-screen text-based window manager and terminal emulator that multiplexes a physical terminal between multiple processes (typically interactive shells)

To run:

athena% add gnu

athena% screen options

See also: gnome-terminal, xterm

Note:

to use screen effectively, you need to learn various keystroke commands that do things like putting it in the background and attaching to running processes. See the screen man page or other documentation for details

Title and description:

sipb-xscreensaver
Description: screensaves and (optionally) locks screen

To run:

athena% add sipb

athena% sipb-xscreensaver &

See also: xscreensaver

Note:

this application was formerly called xscreensaver. It is not the same as xscreensaver in the Athena release

Title and description:

TechTime
Description: MIT-wide enterprise calendaring system; allows users to schedule meetings by synchronizing with other user's calendars

To run:

Go to the TechTime entry site

See also: gnomecal, ical, pscal, xcal, xtc

Title and description:

vncviewer
Description: remote desktop access application

To run:

athena% add outland

athena% vncviewer hostname:display

display is a small integer, typically 0.

Note:

remote host needs to be running VNC server for connection to work. If authentication is required, you may need to know a username or password to be granted access. If a firewall is set on either end, you may need to open the VNC port (5900) to enable the connection

Title and description:

xcal
Description: interactive calendar program (this is not the standard Athena calendar program; see xtc for that)

To run:

athena% add sipb

athena% xcal &

See also: gnomecal, ical, pscal, TechTime, xtc

Title and description:

xcalc
Description: calculator that can emulate a TI-30 or HP-10C

To run:

athena% xcalc [-rpn] & (-rpn for HP-style calculator)

See also: dc, gnome-calculator, nickle

Title and description:

xclock
Description: clock that can display in analog or digital form

To run:

athena% xclock &

Title and description:

xfontsel
Description: displays information and samples of fonts available on the system

To run:

athena% xfontsel &

See also: gnome-font-properties

Title and description:

xload
Description: displays a periodically updated graph of workstation load average

To run:

athena% xload &

See also: rp3, usernet

Title and description:

xscreensaver
Description: standard Athena screensaver. Screensaves and (optionally) locks screen. xscreensaver-button is a front end to xscreensaver. It displays a button with the xscreensaver logo. Clicking the left mouse button on the logo activates the screen saver. Clicking on the middle or right mouse button pops up a menu which allows you to activate the screen saver, configure it, restart it or exit.

To run:

athena% xscreensaver &

athena% xscreensaver-button & (to use the xscreensaver-button front end)

athena% xscreensaver-demo (to get a demo)

There is documentation on the Web

See also: sipb-xscreensaver

Note:

xscreensaver starts automatically by default and locks the screen after about 10 min. of inactivity. You can disable it by putting the following on a single line in your ~/.environment file (create the file if it does not already exist): set skip_xscreensaver

Note:

this application had fornerly been renamed to xss; we have reverted to the original name.. This is not the same application as sipb-xscreensaver in the SIPB locker

Title and description:

xtc
Description: Athena calendar- allows graphic display of time blocks, and overlap with calendars of selected other users on the network to find available meeting times

To run:

athena% add calendar

athena% xtc &

See also: gnomecal, ical, pscal, TechTime, xcal

Title and description:

xterm
Description: creates a new, empty terminal window on your screen

To run:

athena% xterm &

See also: Eterm, gnome-terminal, rxvt, screen