colas@lemur.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo) (01/09/91)
Hello GWM users, I will attend the X conference in Boston next week, so although no official GWM BOF is yet planned, I will be available for informal discussions. (I will attend the wmtalk meeting too). I will be staying at the conference hotel from 12th night to 18th night. You can also meet me at the "Pixmap/Icon formats for X" Bof scheduled for Tuesday at 8:00 We can even set up a Gwm Bof if people feel the need for it. PS: 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 written in C featuring incremental garbage collection via reference counting, lists stored as arrays, and object-oriented internal structure with specific window management primitives. The user builds its own window manager by writing WOOL files to describe objects to be added as decorations around X applications windows, as pop-up menus or as independent windows, and by associating with each object a Finite State Machine triggering WOOL actions on response to X events. GWM should be able to emulate efficiently other window managers, and play the same role for window managers as EMACS do for text editors. GWM is freely available by anonymous ftp on expo -- Colas Nahaboo, Bull Research France -- Koala Project -- GWM X11 Window Manager Internet: colas@mirsa.inria.fr, Phone: (33) 93.65.77.70, Fax: (33) 93 65 77 66 INRIA Sophia, 2004, rte des Lucioles, B.P.109 - 06561 Valbonne Cedex, FRANCE