Subject: Fvwm version 1.16 available
From: [email-masked] (Robert Nation)
Date: 22 Dec 1993 01:08:17 +0200
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

Fvwm release 1.16 (source only) has been uploaded to 
sunsite.unc.edu as file /pub/Linux/Incoming/fvwm-1.16-source.tar.z.

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.

This release is intended mostly to clean up signal handling problems for
SCO and HP/UX users. There are some new features anyway:
1. SmartPlacement. Fvwm will look for a blank spot on the screen in which
   to place new windows.
2. NoPPosition, for people who are tired of having some windows pop up
   at (0,0).

Also, a summary of what was included in the previous release:
1. Multi screen support now works correctly.
2. Icon and PixmapPath commandsnow take standard unix path type
   arguments
3. A button-panel can be placed on the root window (using module GoodStuff)
5. Add-on modules can be loaded at runtime (ie, module GoodStuff).
6. Several keyboard focus control improvements have been made.
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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