Enhanced Motif Window Manager on FreeBSD
The Enhanced Motif Window Manager (EMWM) is a fork of the Motif Window Manager with fixes and enhancements. This brings the wonderful look of Motif to the X11 desktop.
Virtual workspaces
EMWM version 2.0 offers virtual workspaces. The FreeBSD packages contain EMWM version 1.3. To get virtual workspaces it is better not to install the FreeBSD package, and to compile EMWM from source from (fastestcode.org]https://fastestcode.org/emwm.html).
Compilation of EMWM on FreeBSD is quick and easy. Just download the tarball, and run make.
Stow
I prefer to install self compiled software with GNU stow.
In the Makefile.FreeBSD change the PREFIX to
/usr/local/stow/emwm, and create this directory and
including the sub-directory bin:
mkdir -p /usr/local/stow/emwm/bin
Then run make and make install.
Do this for both emwm-src-2.0.tar.xz and emwm-utils-src-2.0.tar.xz.
Next, go to /usr/local/stow and issue the command:
stow emwm
(If you want to, you could make a different sub-directory for each tarball,
like /usr/local/stow/emwm and /usr/local/stow/emwm-utils.)
Edit .xinitrc
Comment out any window managers in the ~/.xinitrc file (or ~/.xsession file)
and add the following line as last line:
exec xmsession
Now, when you run startx from the command line. EMWM will start, with
xmtoolbox, a nice utility-toolbox in the upper left hand corner.
Multiple workspaces
EMWM defaults to four workspaces. If you want a different number, add
a line to your ~/.Xresources:
Emwm*workspaceCount: 6
The mxtoolbox window will show a button for each workspace.
mxtoolbox configuration
To configure the mxtoolbox:
Copy the file toolboxrc from the emwm-utils-src-tarball to
~/.toolboxrc and edit this file.
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