colas@mirsa.inria.fr (Colas NAHABOO) (07/05/89)
Due to the numerous requests of the 1.3 version of gwm, and the fact that the 1.4 release will be surely delayed by one week, to around July the 13th (presentations, project management, reading my mail, etc...) I decided to put the 1.3 version of GWM on expo for people to grab it. Be warned, the documentation of this version is very sketchy on the styleguide! So, for all people who have requested gwm v1.3 and who haven't yet received it (I began to mail it to some...), just ftp it from the MIT. (expo.lcs.mit.edu, ftp with login anonymous, cd contrib, files beginning in "gwm"...) Tom Crockett <tom@icase.edu> Writes: > How about posting a short description of gwm to "xpert" sometime so people > can decide whether to take the time to get it and build it. Ok, here it is: 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 easily and efficiently any other window manager, and play the same role for window managers as EMACS do for text editors. Colas NAHABOO -- colas@mirsa.inria.fr BULL Research FRANCE -- Koala Project -- GWM X11 Window Manager