Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 13:01:46 -0700 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu Cc: binhdo@cs.ubc.ca, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where to get fvwm version 2? Thank you. Message-ID: <9602282001.AA13032@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960125232706.8248B-100000@latte.eng.umd.edu> (message from Chuck Robey on Thu, 25 Jan 1996 23:28:33 -0500 (EST))
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>>>>> "Chuck" == Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> writes:
Chuck> Hey Sean, can we get a summary of what's updated? Or
Chuck> changed? I think a lot of us are running fvwm ....
In a nutshell, these are the changes I've seen:
* The best change of all is that attributes that were universal can
now be controlled on a per-window basis. For example, before you
had to say NoPPosition to globally ignore the PPosition hint, even
if some applications used it correctly. Now you can do it by
window.
The new fvwm does this with by moving the previosly global things
like NoPPosition, MwmHints, etc., into the Style mechanism.
* GoodStuff is now called FvwmButtons
* There's a new FvwmPrompt module out of which you can build window
manager dialog boxes.
* Quoting in the config file has been cleaned up, but not
substantially enough for me to care too much.
* You can use either m4 or C preprocessor macros in your file. Steve
Passe (another FreeBSD users) though found a race condition in the
m4 processing and has submitted patches, although I don't know if
they've made it in yet.
Version 2.0.41 was recently released. It's at
ftp://ftp.hpc.uh.edu/pub/fvwm/version-2/fvwm-2.0.41.tar.gz.
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
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