From: nation@rocket.sanders.com (Robert Nation)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: Fvwm version 1.0 (X-11 Window Manager) available
Date: 3 Nov 1993 22:37:55 +0200
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
Message-ID: <2b94r3$lj6@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Fvwm release 1.0 (source only) has been uploaded to sunsite.unc.edu
as file /pub/Linux/Incoming/fvwm-1.0-source.tar.z , and to
spcot.sanders.com as file /pub/fvwm/fvwm-1.0-source.tar.z.
A binary distribution should follow shortly.
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.
In this release there are no new features. Only bug fixes. There are
different cursors for all four corners on window decorations, though.
Here's the ChangeLog, in case you want to see if your favorite bug has been
fixed:
1. Fixed the problem with grid lines not showing unless
a pager font was used.
2. Removed flags |= VISIBLE from RaiseWindow in pager.c
It prevented correct auto-raise operation.
3. Fixed the pager window title color problems.
4. Added a move-window location indicator similar
to the one for resizing from Henrique Martins
< martins@hplhasm.hpl.hp.com>
5. fixed the window-resize wrap around problem.
6. Added code to move pager representation of windows as
the real window moves/resizes.
7. Changed XCopyPlane for drawing icon pixmaps
to xcopy area, so that apps can pass color pixmaps
to fvwm. Beat up on icon pixmap drawing to let it
handle application supplied color icon pixmaps
and shaped icon pixmaps.
8. For cases when NumberOfScreens > 1, added a query
to check for current screen prior to setting keyboard
focus. Should fix problems of mysteriously loosing
focus. Problems of not re-drawing decorations on expose
events for screens other than 0 remain.
9. In order to get both matlab and xv to stop walking their
windows around when the re-configure themselves, I had
to re-parent application windows inside a parent that
is exactly the same size as the app window. While I was in
there, made fvwm re-parent undecorated windows, since this
simplifies some things. Also, can now have seperate cursors
for the four corners, which is ofter requested. (Why do
matlab and xv have to be too smart for their own good?)
10.Tidied up above code, now let AddWindow() drop the decorations
any old place, then let SetupFrame clean up the mess.
11.Middle-clicking on a window in the pager no longer moves
the pager image of the window.
12.Changed to DrawImageString for pager labels, so that they are
readable in monochrome.
13.Tried to improve icon autoplacement for icons that
are too wide or tall for the icon box.
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)
From: nation@rocket.sanders.com (Robert Nation)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: Fvwm-1.05 (X-11 Window Manager) available
Date: 12 Nov 1993 16:51:17 +0200
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
Message-ID: <2c07t5$gni@kruuna.Helsinki.FI>
Fvwm release 1.05 (source only) has been uploaded to sunsite.unc.edu
as file /pub/Linux/Incoming/fvwm-1.05-source.tar.z , and to
spcot.sanders.com as file /pub/fvwm/fvwm-1.05-source.tar.z.
A binary distribution should follow shortly.
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.
If you have fvwm-1.04, DONT BOTHER UPGRADING. There is only one minor bug
fix:
nation@snoopy>diff functions.c functions.c~
689c689
< unsigned long data[3]; /* "suggested" by ICCCM version 1 */
---
> unsigned long data[2]; /* "suggested" by ICCCM version 1 */
695c695
< PropModeReplace, (unsigned char *) data, 3);
---
> PropModeReplace, (unsigned char *) data, 2);
In this release there are some new features:
1. MS-Windows/Motif style hot-key support for menus
(compile time option).
2. Thinner relief decorations available (compile
time option, looks more like mwm).
3. Title-bar pop-ups are neatly aligned with
the decorations that they are bound to.
4. An improved mwm-like.fvwmrc for motif fans.
5. Really quick re-draws after menus are popped down
(compile-time option, uses save-unders & costs memory)
Here's the ChangeLog, in case you want to see if your favorite bug has been
fixed:
>From 1.03 to 1.04
1. Eliminated the appearance of a (NL) character preceding
the 2nd column menu entries.
2. Made title-bar and title-bar-button popups line up neatly under
their buttons. A nice little touch.
3. Whacked up the mwm-like.fvwmrc to use the new -DHOT_KEYS
4. Fixed problem with de-iconifying pager causing warping.
5. Added code to raise all of a windows transients with
the window itself.
6. Fixed (?) a problem with border color errors on windows
that unmap themselves and re-map quickly
7. Made default for menu popups to request save_unders.
Quicker re-draws after a popup. Added a compile
time option to get rid of it.
8. Compiled with -Wall and -Wstrict-prototypes again, and fixed a
few minor errors. Removed all references to Xos.h, since it
seems to be unneeded.
>From 1.02 to 1.03
1. #ifdef'd out this:
If a window is moved using pager and meets opaque
move criteria, move the window itself in real-time too.
since it caused problems for some people.
2. Fixed the move-window indicator to display 12 characters, which
was needed to indicate +1024 +1024.
3. Integrated patches for menu hotkeys and motif-like appearance
right into the main source, since these are neatly #ifdef'd
Left the default configuration as it was. Flags can be set
in the makefile
>From 1.01 to 1.02
1. Fixed up pager code a bit.
Leave grid lines on during a button3 drag in pager.
If a window is moved using pager and meets opaque
move criteria, move the window itself in real-time too.
>From 1.0 to 1.01
1. Fixed some border-drawing details for tiny windows.
2. Fixed a possible crash condition during startup in
MoveResizeViewportIndicator
3. Fixed a minor boo-boo in click to focus handling
when mouse activities are bound to window events.
Note: If you want to use color icons, you will need to get the Xpm libraries
from sunsite.unc.edu:
/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.
You may also want these from sunsite.unc.edu:
/pub/X11/contrib/xpm3icons.tar.Z, sample icons
/pub/X11/contrib/ctwm-3.0.tar.Z, pull out the icons. ctwm has really nice
color icons.
and this from ftp.x.org:
/contrib/SunDesk???, lots of sample icons, which, unfortunately, have
very undescriptive file names.
Rob Nation
(nation@rocket.sanders.lockheed.com)
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From: nation@rocket.sanders.com (Robert Nation)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: Fvwm version 1.10 available
Date: 4 Dec 1993 01:14:44 +0200
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
Message-ID: <2doh94$goa@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Fvwm release 1.10 (source only) has been uploaded to sunsite.unc.edu
as file /pub/Linux/Incoming/fvwm-1.10-source.tar.z.
A binary distribution should follow shortly.
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.
In this release there are some new features:
1. Improved Motif mwm emulation. Emulation mode can now be selected at
run time with MWMMenus, MWMButtons, MWMBorders. Improved mwm-like.fvwmrc
for motif fans.
2. Input Focus changes by clients like Lucid Emacs are tracked and
reflected by the window highlight color.
3. Add a warp function, like CirculateDown, but it de-iconifies as it
goes.
5. Menus reworked a bit, for more conventional operation.
6. Added a separate color set for sticky windows, using commands
StickyForeColor, StickyBackColor.
7. Added IconPath and Pixmap path command to make config files
simpler.
8. Assorted bug fixes.
Note: If you want to use color icons, you will need to get the Xpm libraries
from sunsite.unc.edu:
/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.
You may also want these from sunsite.unc.edu:
/pub/X11/contrib/xpm3icons.tar.Z, sample icons
/pub/X11/contrib/ctwm-3.0.tar.Z, pull out the icons. ctwm has really nice
color icons.
and this from ftp.x.org:
/contrib/SunDesk???, lots of sample icons, which, unfortunately, have
very undescriptive file names. Apparantly there is
another version of this file with descriptive names,
also on ftp.x.org.
Rob Nation
(nation@rocket.sanders.lockheed.com)
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From: nation@rocket.sanders.com (Robert Nation)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: Fvwm version 1.15 available
Date: 20 Dec 1993 01:56:50 +0200
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
Message-ID: <2f2po2$dm9@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Fvwm release 1.15 (source and binaries only) has been uploaded to
sunsite.unc.edu as file /pub/Linux/Incoming/fvwm-1.15-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.
In this release there are some new features:
1. Multi screen support now works correctly.
2. Icon and PixmapPath commandsnow take standard unix path type
arguments
3. A button-panel can be placed on the root window (using module GoodStuff)
5. Add-on modules can be loaded at runtime (ie, module GoodStuff).
6. Several keyboard focus control improvements have been made.
8. Assorted bug fixes.
Note: If you want to use color icons, you will need to get the Xpm libraries
from sunsite.unc.edu:
/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.
You may also want these from sunsite.unc.edu:
/pub/X11/contrib/xpm3icons.tar.Z, sample icons
/pub/X11/contrib/ctwm-3.0.tar.Z, pull out the icons. ctwm has really nice
color icons.
and this from ftp.x.org:
/contrib/SunDesk???, lots of sample icons, which, unfortunately, have
very undescriptive file names. Apparantly there is
another version of this file with descriptive names,
also on ftp.x.org.
Rob Nation
(nation@rocket.sanders.lockheed.com)
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From: nation@rocket.sanders.com (Robert Nation)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: Fvwm version 1.16 available
Date: 22 Dec 1993 01:08:17 +0200
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
Message-ID: <2f7vl1$imt@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Fvwm release 1.16 (source only) has been uploaded to
sunsite.unc.edu as file /pub/Linux/Incoming/fvwm-1.16-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.
This release is intended mostly to clean up signal handling problems for
SCO and HP/UX users. There are some new features anyway:
1. SmartPlacement. Fvwm will look for a blank spot on the screen in which
to place new windows.
2. NoPPosition, for people who are tired of having some windows pop up
at (0,0).
Also, a summary of what was included in the previous release:
1. Multi screen support now works correctly.
2. Icon and PixmapPath commandsnow take standard unix path type
arguments
3. A button-panel can be placed on the root window (using module GoodStuff)
5. Add-on modules can be loaded at runtime (ie, module GoodStuff).
6. Several keyboard focus control improvements have been made.
8. Assorted bug fixes.
Note: If you want to use color icons, you will need to get the Xpm libraries
from sunsite.unc.edu:
/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.
You may also want these from sunsite.unc.edu:
/pub/X11/contrib/xpm3icons.tar.Z, sample icons
/pub/X11/contrib/ctwm-3.0.tar.Z, pull out the icons. ctwm has really nice
color icons.
and this from ftp.x.org:
/contrib/SunDesk???, lots of sample icons, which, unfortunately, have
very undescriptive file names. Apparantly there is
another version of this file with descriptive names,
also on ftp.x.org.
Rob Nation
(nation@rocket.sanders.lockheed.com)
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