sawfish: news on my development branch

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[12 gen 06] Reworking hooks (active instead of passive: act while doing X requests rather than when confirming X event arrives).

• Using actively X selection!

[06 dic 2005] 1.4.4 after a few emails on "disappearing windows" under xinerama + stock sawfish combination, it seems my version solves the problem:

oknowton: For all I know your version handles it gracefully
oknowton: thank you very much. Your sawfish-mmc-1.4.4 isn't losing any windows
oknowton: You have no idea how relieved I am right now :). I was very scared that I would have to change window managers, and I don't know what I would do if I had to do that.

Thanks to oknowton (Pat) there are ubuntu packages "deb http://patshead.com/ubuntu/ breezy contrib", and also a darcs repository:

[09 dic 2004] 1.4.1-mmc released

And here the NEWS

[04 dic 2004] i announce (to the mailing list) the 1.4-mmc tarball:

Differences from the mainline 1.3

• distributing focus
• requesting key events maybe better explained here:
• the beginning (autumn 2001) of all was mmsystem.jl. At that time i was inventing tools to understand problems: mmsystem is a tool to reload the lisp code on the run.
• colorful tracing info. Another invention from that time.
• restacking a group of windows w/o flickering C + lisp (3-liner) * http://mail.gnome.org/archives/sawfish-list/2004-September/msg00022.html
• xkb groups (not mouse 6/7) changing repeat frame invoking mouse emulation (to move/resize)

reading:

• http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html
• http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/
• http://cs.wwc.edu/~davija/XLIB/top.html

http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/documentation/tutorials/WM_TUTORIAL http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/documentation/tutorials/WM_TUTORIAL-2 http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/documentation/tutorials/WM_TUTORIAL-3

possible troubles with building

links to the (old) SF wikis:

• http://sawfish.uberstyle.net/uploads/SawfishWiki/
• http://sawfish.uberstyle.net/snapshots/
• http://www.taggling.com/tag/sawfish
• the new one

Linus denounces feature cutting in Gnome

http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2005-December/000477.html

WM testing:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72238

Customizing mmc.xterm

after years, I start to use the `custom' system (to config my packages via GUI). I was stuck b/c unable to restore the configurability for viewport-dimensions until (a month ago, while making the gauche-based replacement for sawfish-ui) I discovered that some variables not only lost their defcustom definition, but were explicitely banned (to phase-out the value in the users' custom files) ... in sawfish.wm.util.compat