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This release is the last beta before 1.8 is out.
This 1.7p_beta_5 update include small bug fixes. This will become 1.8 on
June 30 if no major bug report has been received till then.
News in this release: (see details in revision.c)
* just some small bugfixes by Anders Holst (aho@nada.kth.se) to its
virtual screen package and some C bugs triggered by it.
Reminder: New in 1.7p_beta_4 w.r.t. 7p_beta_3:
* some bug fixes by Anders Holst (aho@nada.kth.se)
random crashes when using GWM_EXECUTE
additions to vtwm profile
simple-icon.gwm: stretched side bars didnt work
* LaTeX doc updated, and postscript version included in distrib
* roundoff errors when resizing windows near border in confine mode fixed
* simple-win decoration upgraded to have shaped titlebars
Reminder: New in 1.7p_beta_3 w.r.t. 7p_beta_2:
* Anders Holst (aho@nada.kth.se) implemented recursive bars (bars inside
bars), shaped plugs in bars, and transparent or shaped tilings in bars.
see section NEW_BARS at the end of this text for details.
I will incorporate it into the main documentation body after this update.
NOTE: you should not use anymore (bar-make ()) constructs, hunt them in
your code to replace them by (bar-make), as now (bar-make ()) has a
potentially different meaning.
A "fgrep '(bar-make ()' *.gwm" in your wool files should be sufficient.
A more powerful script is provided in contrib/scripts
* I also modified simple-icon.gwm and term-icon.xpm to take into account
this change. The new customisation item is "stretch", so for instance
to have the name of xmh window under it "a la mac", do a:
(customize simple-icon any Xmh stretch t legend t)
To have it on all icons, issue a:
(setq simple-icon.stretch t)
... this should answer the request of Giacomo Boffi.
* I added a small module to send me an upd packet every day by every
running gwm so that I can have some idea of the use, and more
importantly propagation of new versions. This will only send your
hostname, and will silently fail if the network is not present. You can
either disable this by -DNO_GWM_LOG, or better do a
-DGWM_LOG_ID="\"a_name_of_your_setup\"" if you dont want me to log this
information, that I wont publish but will help me to better have a
feeling for the use of gwm.
see spy.c and GWM_log function in gwm.c, module done by
Cedric.Beust@sophia.inria.fr, http://www.inria.fr/koala/beust.html
* I will put precompiled binaries on koala.inria.fr for the architectures
I have at hand, or contributed by users. currently:
linux, sparc-SunOS, sparc-solaris, dec_mips, dec_alpha, SGI
I will also upload these binaries on the X site for the 1.8 distrib
Reminder: New in 1.7p_beta_2 w.r.t. 7p_beta_1:
* still no Imakefiles for all the contrib/ dir. programs there should be
installed by hand if needed, all contributed Imakefile are welcome
of course, but I dont think automatic installation of these progs
is desirable
* last unfixable problem with xv documented (doc/KNOWN_BUGS)
* Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i+@andrew.cmu.edu>: corrections to gwm doc
* Vinnie Shelton <shelton@grind.ICD.Teradyne.COM>:
- patches included for better compilation on SVR4 systems
- distrib is now a tar of gwm-version_number
* misc bug fixes:
- patch to function param evaluation by Anders Holst <aho@nada.kth.se>
- all known memory leaks fixed (XQueryTree calls not followed by XFrees)
- pb on make install with rxterm (Lionel.Mallet@sophia.inria.fr)
Reminder: New in 1.7p_beta_1 w.r.t. 1.7o:
* *** XPM LIBRARY NO MORE INCLUDED! ***
Xpm is becoming a de facto standard. Is adopted by Motif 2.0 and COSE
CDE and many other packages (TCL/Tk, emacs...) so you SHOULD have it
installed somewhere. if not, compile it. With its inclusion in CDE 1.0,
its API is freezed so there wont be any compatibility problems
* vtwm profile by Anders Holst (aho@nada.kth.se) included
* many, many bug fixes by Anders
* Sample "diagonal" definitions included in placements.gwm by
Michael A. Patton
* all non-xpm or .gwm files moved from data/ into the new contrib/
subdirectory, including the "gwmchat" like-systems
* Sven Wischnowsky <oberon@cs.tu-berlin.de>:
patch for the gwm.c file which adds two new options:
-I: this one makes gwm read its stdin (and, of course, evaluate it)
-P: together with -I makes gwm print a simple prompt showing the
number of currently open parentheses
see file data/emacs-mode.readme for details
WHERE TO FIND IT?
=================
By FTP: Europe: koala.inria.fr:/pub/gwm/gwm-1.7p_beta_5.tar.gz
USA: ftp.x.org:/contrib/window_managers/gwm/gwm-1.7p_beta_5.tar.gz
Warning: there may be some delay till it appears on ftp.x.org and its mirrors.
WHAT IS GWM?
============
The GWM (Generic Window Manager) is an extensible Window Manager for
the X Window System Version 11. It is based upon a WOOL (Window Object
Oriented Langage) kernel, which is an interpreted dialect of Lisp with
specific window management primitives. The user builds a window
manager by writing WOOL files to describe objects on the screen,
including a Finite State Machine triggering WOOL actions on response
to X events (e.g. mouse buttons) on that object. These objects can be
used as decorations around X applications windows, as pop-up menus or
as independent windows.
GWM should be able to emulate efficiently other window managers, and play
the same role for window managers as EMACS does for text editors.
--
Colas Nahaboo, Koala, BULL @ INRIA Sophia, http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas