From: nation@rocket.sanders.com (Robert Nation)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: fvwm-0.9 X-Window Manager placed on Sunsite
Date: 21 Jul 1993 21:54:22 -0400
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
Message-ID: <22ks0e$e12@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU>
Fvwm release 0.90 has been uploaded to sunsite, as file
/pub/Linux/Incoming/fvwm-0.90.tar.z
Fvwm is a light-weight window manager which provides a simple virtual
desktop and a 3-D look for windows decorations.
Memory consumption for Fvwm is about 1/2 to 1/3 that of twm.
Many bug fixes have been made since release 0.82. In addition,
some new features have been added:
1. Picture Icons
2. Automatic placement of icons on the left and bottom of the screen.
3. DecorateTransients and RandomPlacement options, which work as in Twm
4. Keyboard shortcuts which allow completely mouse-less window manager
operation.
5. Sub-menus. These are not pull-right menus, but they are
sub-menus. As an example, a sub-menu is used to get confirmation
of the "Quit Fvwm" selection in the standard configuration file.
6. Title-bar button uses can now be specified by the user's configuration
file.
All these improvements have not increased code size, but stack + data
size has increased about 4 percent.
One feature which has not been added is a re-start option. This is
not included because it is only used during configuration, and can
be emulated by moving an xterm to the last line of your xinitrc file,
and then killing and restarting the window manager at will.
A Linux binary is included. To use it, you need Xfree86-1.3, and libc-4.4.1.
Rob Nation
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From: nation@rocket.sanders.com (Robert Nation)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: fvwm-0.9 X-Window Manager placed on Sunsite
Date: 21 Jul 1993 21:54:22 -0400
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
Message-ID: <22ks0e$e12@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU>
Fvwm release 0.90 has been uploaded to sunsite, as file
/pub/Linux/Incoming/fvwm-0.90.tar.z
Fvwm is a light-weight window manager which provides a simple virtual
desktop and a 3-D look for windows decorations.
Memory consumption for Fvwm is about 1/2 to 1/3 that of twm.
Many bug fixes have been made since release 0.82. In addition,
some new features have been added:
1. Picture Icons
2. Automatic placement of icons on the left and bottom of the screen.
3. DecorateTransients and RandomPlacement options, which work as in Twm
4. Keyboard shortcuts which allow completely mouse-less window manager
operation.
5. Sub-menus. These are not pull-right menus, but they are
sub-menus. As an example, a sub-menu is used to get confirmation
of the "Quit Fvwm" selection in the standard configuration file.
6. Title-bar button uses can now be specified by the user's configuration
file.
All these improvements have not increased code size, but stack + data
size has increased about 4 percent.
One feature which has not been added is a re-start option. This is
not included because it is only used during configuration, and can
be emulated by moving an xterm to the last line of your xinitrc file,
and then killing and restarting the window manager at will.
A Linux binary is included. To use it, you need Xfree86-1.3, and libc-4.4.1.
Rob Nation
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From: nation@rocket.sanders.com (Robert Nation)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: fvwm-0.91 X-11 Window Manager uploaded to sunsite
Date: 26 Jul 1993 20:46:01 -0400
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
Message-ID: <231ts9$2mc@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU>
Fvwm release 0.91 has been uploaded to sunsite, as file
/pub/Linux/Incoming/fvwm-0.91.tar.z
Fvwm is a light-weight window manager which provides a simple virtual
desktop and a 3-D look for windows decorations.
Memory consumption for Fvwm is about 1/2 to 1/3 that of twm.
Several bug fixes have been made since release 0.9:
1. Problems with dialog boxes not appearing, and programs locking up,
in particular xman.
2. Several stupid typos.
3. A problem with the high-light colors looking odd.
In addition, some new features have been added:
1. Click to focus mode. This is not compatible with keyboard shortcuts (yet).
2. DontMoveOff option, makes it impossible to loose a window by moving
or placing it off the screen.
3. Some decorative improvements.
4. A restart option.
All these improvements have not increased the program size.
A Linux binary is included. To use it, you need Xfree86-1.3, and libc-4.4.1.
Rob Nation
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From: nation@rocket.sanders.com (Robert Nation)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: fvwm-0.92 X-11 window manager placed on sunsite
Date: 2 Aug 1993 10:55:55 -0400
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
Message-ID: <23j9tr$ihr@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU>
Fvwm release 0.92 has been uploaded to sunsite again, as file
/pub/Linux/Incoming/fvwm-0.92.tar.z.
Fvwm is a light-weight window manager which provides a simple virtual
desktop and a 3-D look for windows decorations.
Memory consumption for Fvwm is about 1/2 to 1/3 that of twm.
Fvwm is targeted at machines with too little memory, and at laptops
on which mouse usage may be awkward. All window manager functions
can be performed (conveniently) without a mouse.
In this release we have the following new features:
1. 3D look for menus
2. 3D look for icon frames
3. Improved handling for shaped windows like oclock and xeyes. Since these
extensions consume an extra 60Kbytes of memory by loading in portions
of the LibXt shared library, they are not compiled in by default.
Bug Fixes:
1. Restart operation now works correctly
2. Several dialog box and pull-down menu bugs were fixed.
A Linux binary isincluded. To use it you will need libc-4.4.1, XFree-1.3.
Shaped window extensions are not included in the binary.
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From: nation@rocket.sanders.com (Robert Nation)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: Fvwm-0.96 X11 window manageruploaded to sunsite
Date: 6 Sep 1993 01:22:44 GMT
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
Message-ID: <26e3d4$oer@samba.oit.unc.edu>
[If you haven't tried fvwm yet, do. It's a wonderful window manager. --mdw]
Fvwm release 0.96 (source and binaries) has been uploaded to sunsite,
as file /pub/Linux/Incoming/fvwm-0.96-source.tar.z and
/pub/Linux/X11/Incoming/fvwm-0.96-binaries.tar.z. They will probably be
moved to /pub/Linux/X11/window-managers.
Fvwm is a light-weight window manager which provides a simple virtual
desktop, a 3-D look for windows decorations, and color icons.
Memory consumption for Fvwm is about 1/2 to 1/3 that of twm.
Fvwm is targeted at machines with too little memory, and at laptops
on which mouse usage may be awkward. All window manager functions
can be performed (conveniently) without a mouse.
In this release we have many new features:
1. Color Icons can now be shaped color icons, like ctwm or a Macintosh
2. A Maximize function has been added for mwm fans.
3. The pager has been upgraded. It is more easily interpreted, with
pager-window colors matching their full-size counterparts. You can
now move windows in the pager, and set the input focous in click-to-focus
mode.
4. A user-selectable number of title-bar buttons are available (up to 10).
5. You can now have partially undecorated windows, omitting either the
title-bar or the border, or both.
Bug Fixes:
1. Can now bind keyboard keys to actions in icon windows.
2. Fixed the parsing of EXEC and RESTART functions for key bindings
in the root window.
3. No longer provides stray mouse-button releases to windows (used to
make xmeter crash sometimes.
4. Fixed a problem which resulted where moving the mouse fast
at the end of a window move would cause the window to show
up in the wrong page.
Rob
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From: nation@rocket.sanders.com (Robert Nation)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: fvwm-0.97 X Window System Window Manager on Sunsite
Date: 21 Sep 1993 22:21:34 GMT
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
Message-ID: <27nupe$rgb@samba.oit.unc.edu>
Fvwm release 0.97 (source only) has been uploaded to sunsite,
as file /pub/Linux/Incoming/fvwm-0.97-source.tar.z and
/pub/Linux/Incoming/fvwm-0.97-binaries.tar.z.
Fvwm is a light-weight window manager which provides a simple virtual
desktop, a 3-D look for windows decorations, and color icons.
Memory consumption for Fvwm is about 1/2 to 1/3 that of twm.
Fvwm is targeted at machines with too little memory, and at laptops
on which mouse usage may be awkward. All window manager functions
can be performed (conveniently) without a mouse.
I will be unable to generate a binary distribution for 1 or 2 weeks. If
someone else would like to do it for me, please do.
In this release we have the following several new features:
1. Maximize takes optional arguments to effect maximize vertical or
maximize horizontal.
(See the Maximize portion of the man page.)
2. A WindowList similar to TwmWindows.
(See the WindowList section of the man page).
3. SuppressIcons. Can be used in conjunction with WindowList to
achieve an icon manager.
(See SuppressIcons in the man page).
3. AutoRaise (delay)
(See the AutoRaise part of the man page).
4. Improved click-to-focus handling
5. Ability to construct complex functions
(See the Function part of the man page)
6. A default icon (see the Icon section of the man page)
7. User selectable button decoration styles (see the ButtonStyle
section of the man page.)
8. A CursorMove function for mouseless operation
(see the CursorMove section of the man page).
9. The start of an mwm_like.fvwmrc for mwm fans.
10. Option for 2 column menus so you can list your shortcuts there
(like mwm).
Important Bug Fixes:
1. Fixed some problems with binding keyboard keys to decoration points.
2. Fixed internal error found when de-iconifying windows.
3. (Finally) fixed the xterm-solid/hollow cursor problem.
4. Fixed button 2 problems with click-to-focus mode.
5. Fixed some aligned problems with shaped windows.
6. See the ChangeLog for more details
Note: If you want to use color icons, you will need to get the Xpm libraries:
/pub/X11/contrib/xpm-3.2g.tar.Z for the Xpm library, or
/pub/Linux/X11/libs, file libXpm32g.tar.z. for a pre-compiled shared
library of libXpm for Linux.
/pub/X11/contrib/xpm1icons.tar.Z, sample icons
/pub/X11/contrib/xpm2icons.tar.Z, more sample icons
/pub/X11/contrib/xpm3icons.tar.Z, still more sample icons
/pub/X11/contrib/ctwm-3.0.tar.Z, pull out the icons. ctwm has really nice
color icons.
Rob Nation
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From: nation@rocket.sanders.com (Robert Nation)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: Fvwm X-11 window manager, version 0.98 on sunsite
Date: 7 Oct 1993 21:46:26 GMT
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
Message-ID: <2922ni$76p@samba.oit.unc.edu>
Fvwm release 0.98 (source only) has been uploaded to sunsite,
as file /pub/Linux/Incoming/fvwm-0.98-source.tar.z .
Fvwm is a light-weight window manager which provides a simple virtual
desktop, a 3-D look for windows decorations, and color icons.
Memory consumption for Fvwm is about 1/2 to 2/3 that of twm.
Fvwm is targeted at machines with too little memory, at laptops
on which mouse usage may be awkward, and at users who prefer the appearance
of the Motif window manager to twm's appearance. All window manager functions
can be performed (conveniently) without a mouse.
A binary distribution should follow shortly.
In this release we have the following new features:
1. StickyIcons. You can have iconified windows follow you around
the desktop if you want. Some people find this a convenient way
to move windows around the desktop,
(See the StickyIcons portion of the man page.)
2. Up to 4 user selectable locations for icon autoplacing.
(See the IconBox section of the man page).
3. (Optional) window name labels in the Pager.
(See PagerFont the man page).
3. (Optional) separate font for Icon labels.
(See the IconFont part of the man page).
4. EdgeResistance. Users can add a short delay before
scrolling to new pages (elimates unwanted/accidental movement
around the desktop). Also, can make it easy to line windows
up on screen edges. (See EdgeResistance in the man page).
5. Loads of bug fixes and code speed-ups.
6. There is a sample_configs directory where I'm collecting
.fvwmrc files that may be of general interest. People
should mail improvements to these files to me.
Important Bug Fixes:
1. Fixed some causes of crashes.
2. Improved Icon handling and auto-placement.
3. Big speedup in shaped window handling.
4. Improved title-bar button drawing for teeny-tiny windows.
5. See the ChangeLog for more details
Note: If you want to use color icons, you will need to get the Xpm libraries:
/pub/X11/contrib/xpm-3.2g.tar.Z for the Xpm library, or
/pub/Linux/X11/libs, file libXpm32g.tar.z. for a pre-compiled shared
library of libXpm for Linux.
/pub/X11/contrib/xpm1icons.tar.Z, sample icons
/pub/X11/contrib/xpm2icons.tar.Z, more sample icons
/pub/X11/contrib/xpm3icons.tar.Z, still more sample icons
/pub/X11/contrib/ctwm-3.0.tar.Z, pull out the icons. ctwm has really nice
color icons.
Rob Nation
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From: nation@rocket.sanders.com (Robert Nation)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: fvwm-0.985 X-11 Window Manager is available on sunsite
Date: 21 Oct 1993 14:44:48 GMT
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
Message-ID: <2a6790$rgj@samba.oit.unc.edu>
Fvwm release 0.985 (source and binaries) have been uploaded to sunsite,
as file /pub/Linux/Incoming/fvwm-0.985-source.tar.z and
/pub/Linux/Incoming/fvwm-0.985-binary.tar.z. The binaries still use
libc-4.4.1, for the benefit of those who don't upgrade immediately.
Fvwm is a light-weight window manager which provides a simple virtual
desktop, a 3-D look for windows decorations, and color icons.
Memory consumption for Fvwm is about 1/2 to 2/3 that of twm.
Fvwm is targeted at machines with too little memory, at laptops
on which mouse usage may be awkward, and at users who prefer the appearance
of the Motif window manager to twm's appearance. All window manager functions
can be performed (conveniently) without a mouse.
A binary distribution should follow shortly.
In this release we have the following new features:
There are a number of new features in this release:
1. Border drawing speed should be improved. If anyone finds
this noticeable, please tell me.
2. Mostly this is a bug-change release. That is, I removed most of
the existing bugs and added a whole slew of new ones.
3. WindowListSkip. Lets you leave specific windows out of the
window list pop-up
4. Opaque move is selectable at compile time. This seems pretty worthless
on my hardware. If anyone (that anyone at all) finds this useful,
please let me know.
5. The configuration file name can be specified in the file name.
6. Circulate Up/Down can take a window name argument to make it
"circulate to window (name)".
7. Added Compile time option to have Circulate Up/Down skip iconified
windows.
Important Bug Fixes:
1. Foreground color works correctly
2. Fixed auto-placement of application supplied icons.
3. Patched up mwm-like.fvwmrc to delete windows if you double click on
title-bar button #1.
4. Fixed problems with editres and xprop.
5. Fixed problem of having windows disappear if you move them too
far in the pager.
Observent users will note that the README no longer includes a request for
new feature ideas. I think we have plenty of features now. Of course, I am
still open to any really good ideas. Here are some missing features which I
am thinking about anyway:
1. Restore correct operation for multi-screen displays. I have only limited
access to a system with a multi-screen display, so I may be unable
to accomplish this myself. I did do some early leg-work, so that fvwm
should now at least be able to work on any one screen of a multi-screen
display now.
2. Add a means of having the WM communicate with applications, so
that applications could request that the window manager perform some
operations, or so that applications could request info from the WM.
This would allow arbitrary custom extensions to fvwm, without having to
patch the source. If anyone has good ideas about this, please contact me.
Note: If you want to use color icons, you will need to get the Xpm libraries:
/pub/X11/contrib/xpm-3.2g.tar.Z for the Xpm library, or
/pub/Linux/X11/libs, file libXpm32g.tar.z. for a pre-compiled shared
library of libXpm for Linux.
/pub/X11/contrib/xpm1icons.tar.Z, sample icons
/pub/X11/contrib/xpm2icons.tar.Z, more sample icons
/pub/X11/contrib/xpm3icons.tar.Z, still more sample icons
/pub/X11/contrib/ctwm-3.0.tar.Z, pull out the icons. ctwm has really nice
color icons.
Rob Nation
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From: nation@rocket.sanders.com (Robert Nation)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: Fvwm-0.99 available on spcot.sanders.com
Date: 26 Oct 1993 21:37:53 GMT
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
Message-ID: <2ak5bh$77o@samba.oit.unc.edu>
Fvwm release 0.99 (source and binaries) have been uploaded to
spcot.sanders.com.
NOTE: the binaries now use libc-4.4.4. As a benefit, they're smaller
now than they used to be.
Fvwm is a light-weight window manager which provides a simple virtual
desktop, a 3-D look for windows decorations, and color icons.
Memory consumption for Fvwm is about 1/2 to 2/3 that of twm.
Fvwm is targeted at machines with too little memory, at laptops
on which mouse usage may be awkward, and at users who prefer the appearance
of the Motif window manager to twm's appearance.
All window manager functions can be performed (conveniently) without a mouse.
This is not to say that a mouse is not needed; only that operation of menus,
moving and resizing of windows, etc can be performed without a mouse. You
cannot use fvwm as a mouse-emulator which will allow you to click on
application's mouse-buttons.
In this release we have the following new features:
There are a number of new features in this release:
1. Multi-screen displays are fully supported. Read the section of the
man page if you have one.
2. Opaque move is selectable at run time. It is possible to OpaqueMove
small windows, but rubber-band large windows.
3. The pager is improved.
================>Add the line PagerForeColor orchid to your .fvwmrc file.<=====
6. EdgeScroll can wrap-around at the desktop edges if desired.
7. OpaqueResize is selectable at compile time.
Important Bug Fixes:
1. DefaultIcons work again.
2. xpaint dialog boxes work now. Maybe some other applications too.
3. xprop and editres work again.
4. Opaque move has assorted fixes.
5. Rubber-band artifacts are gone.
Observent users will note that the README no longer includes a request for
new feature ideas. I think we have plenty of features now. Of course, I am
still open to any really good ideas. Here are some missing features which I
am thinking about anyway:
1. Add a means of having the WM communicate with applications, so
that applications could request that the window manager perform some
operations, or so that applications could request info from the WM.
This would allow arbitrary custom extensions to fvwm, without having to
patch the source. If anyone has good ideas about this, please contact me.
Note: If you want to use color icons, you will need to get the Xpm libraries:
/pub/X11/contrib/xpm-3.2g.tar.Z for the Xpm library, or
/pub/Linux/X11/libs, file libXpm32g.tar.z. for a pre-compiled shared
library of libXpm for Linux.
/pub/X11/contrib/xpm1icons.tar.Z, sample icons
/pub/X11/contrib/xpm2icons.tar.Z, more sample icons
/pub/X11/contrib/xpm3icons.tar.Z, still more sample icons
/pub/X11/contrib/ctwm-3.0.tar.Z, pull out the icons. ctwm has really nice
color icons.
Rob Nation
(nation@rocket.sanders.lockheed.com)