2 This is the announcement of VTWM 5.4.6, an upgrade of the five-year
3 old 5.4 release of the window manager for the X Window System.
5 Highlighting the major changes from release 5.4.5a:
6 - m4 preprocessing of the resource file. VTWM can now share a
7 common .twmrc with TWM and other TWM derivatives, and support
8 by-user, by-group, and by-feature configurations.
9 - Regular expressions ("RE"s) support for resource file window
10 lists. Much more sophisticated than VTWM's own wildcarding.
11 - Sound effects, by way of the rplay library and daemon. What's
12 wrong with a little chrome?
13 - Applet regions, for all those little tools we have up all the
15 - Scrolling menus, for those with more entries than the display
17 - 3D doors and the virtual desktop. All 3D features are rendered
18 on opaque resizes (well, except for one case).
19 - Windows can be resized or moved from the virtual desktop, icon
20 managers, and menus not of the root or window in question.
21 - Better (dare I say it, "complete"?) support for multi-headed
23 And, of course, many more bug fixes, tweaks, additions, and changes.
25 VTWM continues to be 100% backward-compatable with TWM. It can still
26 build and run under X11R4, and lose no self-supported functionality.
27 Release 5.4.6 supports the many features expected of "modern" window
28 managers, is highly configurable, yet it keeps a small footprint and
29 quick response. VTWM is quite portable; it has been built on over a
30 dozen different OSes, across nine platforms.
32 The web page, www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/vtwm.html, has been updated, and
33 the archive may be found via a link there, or directly via FTP at
34 ftp.visi.com/users/hawkeyd/X/ and ftp.x.org/contrib/window_managers/
35 (if and when they move it there from contrib/INCOMING/). Visit the
36 above web page for installation notes, complete histories, and more.
38 David J. Hawkey Jr. (hawkeyd@visi.com)