Better CDE

Being able to iconize open windows onto the desktop or an icon manager - or if so chosen, onto the taskbar is a key component of productivity. Currently, X-windows CDE supports the first two and M$ Windows supports the last one. There's some software available commercially that can provide a "workspace" functionality for M$ Windows - but as it's not open-source, I don't trust it - but, it's probably worthwhile.

Now, for those who have to sink so low as to use CDE on a regular basis, they might be aware of the dtwmrc file that can be customized to provided user-specific key bindings.

Here are some defaults that you'll see in your ~/.dt/C or ~/.dt/ dtwmrc file:

Alt window f.minimize

Now, here's what I'd like to see: Where is the f.minimize defined? And, is there a way to add f.desired functions? For example, I'd like CTRL-ALT-Btn1 to reduce a window's x-size by half, and ALT-SHIFT-Btn1 to reduce it in half vertically. How?