mikey@decwrl.dec.com (Mike Yang) (01/11/90)
Xrooms is an implementation of rooms for X. It organizes windows into related groups, called "rooms." A room typicaly contains all the windows relating to a particular task or context; reading mail or developing a particular application, for example. Xrooms manages the position and state of the windows in each room, and makes it easy for users to switch from room to room. Xrooms began several months ago, when we had an informal discussion of whether rooms could be implemented for X, and what changes would be necessary. Soon after this discussion, a quick prototype of xrooms was written. Since then, several people have made intermittent contributions to xrooms in their (spare) time, bringing it to its current form. Xrooms should run under any ICCCM-compliant window manager, and has been tested with mwm, gwm, and R4 twm. Additionally, xrooms works (though possibly, not as well) with dxwm (using the -dxwm switch) and hpwm. Xrooms is far from being a polished utility. For instance, it has been tested only under UWS 2.2 running on DEC machines, and was just very recently linked with the X11R4 libraries. Its user interface is also somewhat lacking, but provides enough to get by. We welcome your contributions and comments. Xrooms is available on gatekeeper.dec.com and expo.lcs.mit.edu as: gatekeeper:~ftp/pub/X11/contrib/xrooms.tar.Z expo:~ftp/contrib/xrooms.tar.Z. Additionally, the xrooms sources will appear "shortly" on comp.windows.x. the xrooms team: xrooms@wsl.dec.com decwrl!xrooms Erik Fortune Terry Weissman Mike Yang DEC Western Software Lab
mikey@atocha.pa.dec.com (Mike Yang) (01/11/90)
Oops. I missed one of the DECwindows references when converting
xrooms from Dwt to Xaw. For those of you who already grabbed the tar
file, Here's the diff for xrooms/xrProto.c:
30c30
< #include <X11/Intrinsic.h>
---
> #include <X11/DwtAppl.h>
New tar files will appear of gatekeeper and expo very shortly. My
apologies.
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