Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 05 Apr 1996 01:40:12 +0700 | From | Gunawan Raharjo <> | Subject | FVWM95-2 Windows95 look & feel |
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Hello All This is only information
--------------------------------------------------------- H.Peraza and David Barth made a quick hack around fvwm2. This way, they hope to free the fvwm TODO list from the MS-windowish requests. Here is the annoucement :
FVWM95 : a window manager based on fvwm, and revamped to look like the MS-one
What is FVWM-95 ? -----------------
Fvwm95 is a hack based on fvwm2.x. It tries to emulate the good features of a well known product without bloating the regular fvwm code.
The main aspects are :
A familiar look and feel. It can be interesting for users moving from the MS-World to Unix, or for those who have to switch regularly between the two. Or for those that simply would like to have the same MS look and feel in Unix, or for those that just want to have another window manager, or... But before all, it's meant to be usefull, simple and efficient;
Same flexible and easy configuration as the native fvwm;
Functionality extensible via loadable modules;
A taskbar: find quickly an application window and don't take space with icon windows;
In the future, we plan to have a desktop/folder metaphor supported by the window manager, as well as improve the current version.
PLEASE NOTE that fvwm-2.x is work in progress, so is fvwm95 too...
Where to get it ? --------------- You can ftp the latest version from: ftp://mitac11.uia.ac.be/pub . The new version is named: fvwm95-2.0.41b.tgz
See also : http://ltiwww.epfl.ch/~barth/fvwm95.html
Acknowledgements : -----------------
Many thanks to all the Fvwm team, and to Mr. Rob Nation who started to code a nice wm.
If you had problem when compiling try this step *********************************************************************** You first have to 'xmkmf -a' from the top directory of fvwm95-2 Then you should do a 'make' to compile the wm and the modules (it will also compile the library your 'make install' lacked ) Then, you can 'make install', but I'd rather tell you to install by hand, so that you know what you're doing copy fvwm/fvwm95-2 in a common path (/usr/local/bin; or ~/bin) copy the modules you'd like to test also in a common path (someone prefer a /usr/lib/fvwm/ path). Anyway, customize your ~/.fvwm2rc95 so that the ModulePath line points to the path where you installed the modules Don't forget to have a '.fvwm2rc95' file in your $HOME dir. ***********************************************************************
H.Peraza <peraza@mitac11.uia.ac.be> D.Barth <barth@di.epfl.ch> (http://ltiwww.epfl.ch/~barth)
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