Subject: Fvwm version 1.10 available
From: [email-masked] (Robert Nation)
Date: 4 Dec 1993 01:14:44 +0200
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

Fvwm release 1.10 (source only) has been uploaded to sunsite.unc.edu
as file /pub/Linux/Incoming/fvwm-1.10-source.tar.z.
A binary distribution should follow shortly.

Fvwm is a light-weight window manager which provides a simple virtual
desktop, a 3-D look for windows decorations, and color icons.

Memory consumption for Fvwm is about 1/2 to 2/3 that of twm.
Fvwm is targeted at machines with too little memory, at laptops
on which mouse usage may be awkward, and at users who prefer the appearance
of the Motif window manager to twm's appearance. All window manager functions
can be performed (conveniently) without a mouse.

In this release there are some new features:
1. Improved Motif mwm emulation. Emulation mode can now be selected at
   run time with MWMMenus, MWMButtons, MWMBorders. Improved mwm-like.fvwmrc 
   for motif fans.
2. Input Focus changes by clients like Lucid Emacs are tracked and
   reflected by the window highlight color.
3. Add a warp function, like CirculateDown, but it de-iconifies as it
   goes.
5. Menus reworked a bit, for more conventional operation.
6. Added a separate color set for sticky windows, using commands
   StickyForeColor, StickyBackColor.
7. Added IconPath and Pixmap path command to make config files
   simpler.
8. Assorted bug fixes.

Note: If you want to use color icons, you will need to get the Xpm libraries 
from sunsite.unc.edu:
 /pub/X11/contrib/xpm-3.2g.tar.Z for the Xpm library, or
 /pub/Linux/X11/libs, file libXpm32g.tar.z. for a pre-compiled shared 
                       library of libXpm for Linux.

You may also want these from sunsite.unc.edu:
 /pub/X11/contrib/xpm3icons.tar.Z, sample icons
 /pub/X11/contrib/ctwm-3.0.tar.Z, pull out the icons. ctwm has really nice
                        color icons.
and this from ftp.x.org:
 /contrib/SunDesk???, lots of sample icons, which, unfortunately, have
                      very undescriptive file names. Apparantly there is
		      another version of this file with descriptive names,
	              also on ftp.x.org.
 
Rob Nation
([email-masked])

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