No, I'm not going to tell you to switch to a different window manager or anything like that. Alan Coopersmith's blog had a nice piece about how to nuke Xsun with a given key combination. It reminded me of some of the CDE tweaks that make it cool enough that I'm still using it over newer, spiffier software that's out now. First, take back some of your screen real estate by ditching the front panel. To do so, add this to your ~/.Xdefaults:

  Dtwm*useFrontPanel: False

Then, bind the apps and workspace navigation that you use frequently to< keystrokes. This is what I've got in my ~/.dt/user.dtwmrc

  Keys DtKeyBindings
  {
    F1      root|icon|window f.goto_workspace One
    F2      root|icon|window f.goto_workspace Two
    F3      root|icon|window f.goto_workspace Three
    F4      root|icon|window f.goto_workspace Four

    AltF1   root|icon|window f.exec "~/bin/f1a.sh"
    AltF2   root|icon|window f.exec "~/bin/f2a.sh"
    MetaF1  root|icon|window f.exec "~/bin/f1.sh"
    MetaF2  root|icon|window f.exec "~/bin/f2.sh"
  ...
  }

Next time you restart your window manager, these settings will take effect, Later on, if you decide meta-f4 should be mozilla, and not dtterm, you can just change the script, and don't need to restart CDE

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