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The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.os.linux.announce,comp.windows.x.announce,comp.lang.scheme as well. Scwm 0.8 is released. * What Scwm is: Scwm is the Scheme Configurable Window Manager. This is a highly dynamic and extensible window manager for the X Window System (based originally on fvwm2, but now much enhanced) with Guile Scheme as the configuration/extension language. Nearly all decorations can be changed at run-time or per-window, and eventually many decoration styles and additional features will be supported through dynamically loaded code. A powerful protocol is provided for interacting with the window manager while it is running. * Primary Authors: Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu> Greg J. Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu> * Where you can find more info: Some information about scwm is available at: http://huis-clos.mit.edu/scwm/ There are also scwm-discuss@huis-clos.mit.edu and scwm-announce@huis-clos.mit.edu mailing lists for disscussion and release announcements repsectively. You can subscribe to either at majordomo@huis-clos.mit.edu * Where you can get it: You can download the latest scwm package from: ftp://huis-clos.mit.edu/pub/scwm/scwm-0.8.tar.gz There is also ftp://huis-clos.mit.edu/pub/scwm/scwm-icons-0.8.tar.gz which has a number of images for use with scwm as icons, textures, buttons, etc. Some of these images are not available otherwise. You will also need to download and install the guile library. You can get the latest release from: ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/guile-1.2.tar.gz or any archive that has GNU source packages available. You can get the latest guile snapshot (has more useful features and generally work better) from: ftp://red-bean.com/pub/guile The snapshots are officially alpha but they generally work pretty well. * Here are highlights of what is new with the 0.8 release. There were many changes; see the NEWS file in the distribution for more details. o Fully documented all primitives -- Extracted during the build-process via new extract-docs tool -- DocBook SGML and plaintext formats -- html available online at: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/constraints/cassowary/scwm-doc/ o Integrated documentation into scwm.el Emacs interaction mode -- apropos and procedure documentation help o Lots of bug fixes, cleaned-up API for consistency, multibyte character support o Squashed titlebar style o Optional alpha-quality integration of Cassowary constraint solver for window layout o Improved window placement configurability, window gravity support, and fvwm2 module support o Access to X properties, X resources,