Scwm-0.99.5.1 is Released!

["Greg J. Badros" <gjb at cs dot washington dot edu>]

Since 0.99.5 had some show-stopping bugs, I've made a bugfix-only
release, 0.99.5.1.  Below are the NEWS entries, and the announcement is
at the very end, after a ^L-------.

Grab it from http://scwm.mit.edu/

Enjoy!
Greg

Changes for scwm-0.99.5.1 (released 26-October-1999)
* Bug fixes
* RPM built to link against libguile.so.6 (guile-1.3.4) instead of
  libguile.so.7 (CVS guile)

Changes for scwm-0.99.5 (released 24-October-1999)

* Bug fixes

* Added interactive procedure specifications

Used to make clear which procedures should be called interactively
via menus or bindings.  Right now just used by prompt-binding, but
will be required of menuitem actions and binding actions in the next
version.

* New configure option, --enable-dump
Rudimentary, not-state-preserving-yet support for guile-hobbit's
unexec capabilities (goal: reduce startup time substantially).

* New preferences options
** *highlight-foreground*, *highlight-background*

* SIGINT (Ctrl-C) is now allowed to interrupt and terminate Scwm
Unless SCWM_CATCH_SIGINT is defined during compilation

* New modules (largely from breaking up flux.scm, factoring system.scwmrc)
** winops-menu.scm
** xlock-menus.scm
** titlebar-buttons.scm
** task-switcher.scm
** synth-events.scm
** shove-window.scm
** session.scm
** rectangle.scm
** lambda-startup-logo.scm
** describe.scm
** basic-styles.scm

* Renamed numerous primitives
** Now (un)shade-window, shaded-window? 
-> was window-(un)shade, window-shaded?
** Standardize on toggle-maximize-{vertical,horizontal,both} instead of random other names
** (de)iconify-window, iconified-window?
-> was (de)iconify, iconified?
** focus-window
-> was focus
** sticky-window?, (un)stick-window
-> was sticky?, (un)stick
** `window-focus-style'
-> was get-window-focus
** `send-button', `send-key'
-> were send-button-press, send-key-press

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Scwm 0.99.5.1 is released.

* What Scwm is:

Scwm is the Scheme Constraints Window Manager, a highly dynamic and
extensible window manager for the X Window System.  Scwm embeds Guile
Scheme as the configuration and extension language, and includes a
sophisticated constraint solver for permitting the user to interactively
specify constraints among top-level window sizes and positions.  Nearly
all decorations can be changed at run-time on a per-window basis.
Dynamic loading of C modules is supported.  Scwm is self-documenting and
provides A powerful protocol for interacting with the window manager
from other processes.

* Primary Authors:

Greg J. Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu>
Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@alum.mit.edu> 

Other substantial contributors include:
  Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe@orcus.priv.at>, 
  Todd Larason <jtl@molehill.org>, 
  Jeff Nichols <jwnichls@cs.washington.edu>, and
  Sam Steingold <sds@goems.com>.

Many more people have contributed bug reports, bug fixes, or smaller
changes; see AUTHORS and THANKS in the distribution.

* Where you can find more info:

Some information about scwm is available at:

http://scwm.mit.edu/

There are also scwm-discuss@scwm.mit.edu and
scwm-announce@scwm.mit.edu mailing lists for disscussion and
release announcements repsectively. The new list
scwm-commits@scwm.mit.edu receives all scwm CVS commit messages.
You can subscribe to any of these at majordomo@scwm.mit.edu by
sending a message with a body of "subscribe <list>" where <list> is
the name of the list you want.

* Where you can get it:

You can download the latest scwm source package from:

ftp://scwm.mit.edu/pub/scwm/scwm-0.99.5.1.tar.gz

There is also
ftp://scwm.mit.edu/pub/scwm/scwm-icons-0.99.5.1.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

or any archive that has GNU source packages available.

You can get the latest guile snapshot from:

http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html

The snapshots are officially alpha but they generally work pretty
well; however, 1.3.4 is recommended for now since it is the most 
recent. Guile 1.2 is no longer supported, but Guile-1.3 should still
work with only minimal loss of functionality (Guile-1.3.2 was buggy and
should be avoided).


* Packages

Various binary RPMs are available at:

ftp://scwm.mit.edu/pub/scwm/RPMS/

Various source RPMs are available at:

ftp://scwm.mit.edu/pub/scwm/SRPMS/

and the scwm-icons distribution is available at:

ftp://scwm.mit.edu/pub/scwm/RPMS/noarch

See the NEWS file in the distribution for a complete list
of all that has changed since the previous version of Scwm.