From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 26 09:55:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA14720 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 09:55:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA14714 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 09:55:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA04877; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:51:15 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601261751.KAA04877@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Where to get fvwm version 2? Thank you. To: handy@condor.physics.montana.edu (Brian Handy) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:51:14 -0700 (MST) Cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Brian Handy" at Jan 25, 96 11:05:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Hey Sean, can we get a summary of what's updated? Or changed? I think a > > lot of us are running fvwm .... > > I've heard of a couple of things of interest. One is "SloppyFocus", > which is sort of the next generation of Focus Follow Mouse. If your > mouse goes out of the window onto, say, the root window, your window > stays focused. This also applies to putting your mouse on a non-input > sort of thing like xclock, I believe. > > One other thing I believe you can have (but haven't seen) is icons in the > click-to-pull-down menus. I think. You could have that before. There was one bug in the call to instantiate them that kept them from working more than one menu deep. The bug is obvious (a function is called with one too few parameters) when you lint the thing. Personally, I prefer fvwm, but then I think CDE is a standard and fvwm is the closest thing to a non-commercial mwm. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.