VTWM provides users with virtual desktop capabilities for efficient multitasking and organization of workspaces. It allows users to seamlessly switch between different desktops and customize their layouts, enhancing productivity and ease of use.
If you're looking for a virtual desktop manager, VTWM is one of the many descendants of TWM that you can try out. One of its key features is the Virtual Desktop, which means that what's currently on your screen is just a portion of a larger workspace. You can easily point-and-click to switch between the different portions of your virtual desktop within a scaled representation of the workspace.
TWM, or the "Tab Window Manager," was included in the X Window System release as the primitive-looking, user-configurable interface that sported shaped titlebars, icon management, user-defined macro functions, click-to-type or pointer-driven focus, and configurable text files.
With VTWM, you get even more customization options, including initial scale, size, position, colors of the virtual desktop, real screen, and windows within. You can also decorate the virtual desktop and real screen with external image files, move and resize the virtual desktop freely, and toggle real screen alignment on an user-defined grid.
One of the coolest things about VTWM is that it has "doors," which allow you to move the real screen to preset or set-on-the-fly coordinates in the virtual desktop with a single click or keystroke. The root window is really the root window; applications that can draw on the root are not hindered. You can also move and resize windows on the display from their representation in the virtual desktop.
There are a few things that VTWM doesn't support yet, like moving a window on the display into the virtual desktop or vice versa. It also generates more X protocol traffic than some other implementations, which may be a concern if you use a remote server.
The newest release of VTWM includes m4 processing of the resource file, new regular expression support, sound effects, applet regions, scrolling menus, and 3D doors and virtual desktop. All of these features add up to create a highly customizable virtual desktop manager that can give you even more control over your workspace.
TWM, or the "Tab Window Manager," was included in the X Window System release as the primitive-looking, user-configurable interface that sported shaped titlebars, icon management, user-defined macro functions, click-to-type or pointer-driven focus, and configurable text files.
With VTWM, you get even more customization options, including initial scale, size, position, colors of the virtual desktop, real screen, and windows within. You can also decorate the virtual desktop and real screen with external image files, move and resize the virtual desktop freely, and toggle real screen alignment on an user-defined grid.
One of the coolest things about VTWM is that it has "doors," which allow you to move the real screen to preset or set-on-the-fly coordinates in the virtual desktop with a single click or keystroke. The root window is really the root window; applications that can draw on the root are not hindered. You can also move and resize windows on the display from their representation in the virtual desktop.
There are a few things that VTWM doesn't support yet, like moving a window on the display into the virtual desktop or vice versa. It also generates more X protocol traffic than some other implementations, which may be a concern if you use a remote server.
The newest release of VTWM includes m4 processing of the resource file, new regular expression support, sound effects, applet regions, scrolling menus, and 3D doors and virtual desktop. All of these features add up to create a highly customizable virtual desktop manager that can give you even more control over your workspace.
What's New
Version 5.4.6b: N/A