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- From: Tom Truscott <decvax!mcnc!rti-sel!trt>
- Subject: wm - a window manager (part 0 of 4)
- Newsgroups: mod.sources
- Approved: john@genrad.UUCP
-
- Mod.sources: Volume 2, Issue 30
- Submitted by: Tom Truscott <decvax!mcnc!rti-sel!trt>
-
-
- This is a copy of the README from the wm distribution
-
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-
- A Revised Edition of the `wm' window manager
- Matt Lennon (919) 541-6919
- Tom Truscott (919) 541-7005
- Research Triangle Institute, NC
- P.O. Box 12194
- RTP, NC 27709
-
-
- To install WM:
-
- 1) Install the provided version of the Curses library. This library
- has bug fixes *necessary* to the proper operation of WM.
- If you don't actually install libcurses.a in /usr/lib, you
- must indicate this in the WM Makefile (the LIBCURSES macro),
- and you must copy the provided curses.h to this directory
- so that it will be included during compilation.
-
- 2) Set the value of BIN in the WM makefile to the
- directory where the WM program should reside.
-
- 3) Type 'make install'.
-
- 4) Install the WM manual page, wm.1, in the appropriate place.
-
-
- Note 1: This version of WM is horribly 4.2bsd-dependent, using pseudo-ttys,
- the 'select()' system call, 4.2-specific ioctl's, etc.
- Conceivably, it could be made to run under 4.1bsd with some
- minor mods, but porting to other versions of UNIX would
- probably entail a major rewrite.
-
- Note 2: The paper 'USINGWM' is a brief essay on how we use WM
- here at RTI, and should prove helpful in getting used to
- the WM style of doing things. It also describes some
- problems/glitches with WM that you should be aware of.
-
- Note 3: Included in this distribution is a paper (Paper.jacob)
- by the original WM author that describe WM's
- development and structure. While the description of
- the 4.2bsd version of WM pertains to an earlier version,
- the basics are still the same, and this paper is good reading.
-