Window Maker update

JWJones · 04-05-2020, 06:57 PM

For the Window Maker users out there, a new release:

https://www.windowmaker.org/news/

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Version 0.95.9 released

Window Maker 0.95.9 was released on April 4th 2020

SwitchPanel is now more configurable: you can configure the switch panel icon size by setting the “SwitchPanelIconSize” option to your preferred value in ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker. The font size used in this panel now is also sensible to changes in the system font.

New user configuration directory environment variable. In previous versions, the GNUstep directory used to store a user’s Window Maker configuration files was specified by the GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT environment variable, which defaulted to ~/GNUstep. However, this environment variable was deprecated in gnustep-make v2. Therefore, it has been replaced by the WMAKER_USER_ROOT environment variable.

libXmu is now an optional dependency.If the library is not found, compilation work, the only limitation will arise when trying to install the standard colormap on displays which are not TrueColor. Please note that if you have the library but not the headers, configure will still stop; there is no user option to explicitly disable the library use.

sevendogsbsd · 04-06-2020, 12:01 PM

Good to see Windowmaker getting some love. I'll have to check out the changes.

JWJones · 04-06-2020, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by sevendogsbsd

Good to see Windowmaker getting some love. I'll have to check out the changes.

I haven't really delved into the changes, but here it is in Slackware_current (it's already been added):

sevendogsbsd · 04-06-2020, 02:12 PM

Hard to tell, window maker has looked the same for the last 20 years :-) It is light, fast, normally "just works", and has a nice configuration tool. I will play with it on FreeBSD tonight - not sure we got the update yet but I am on the ports system so maybe.

JWJones · 04-06-2020, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by sevendogsbsd

Hard to tell, window maker has looked the same for the last 20 years :-) It is light, fast, normally "just works"...

Yeah, that's the beauty of it. Rock solid, fast, consistent, and "just works."