Xfwm4 now in CVS !!

[Edscott Wilson García]

Wow. This is good news! 

:-)

Edscott

On Vie 03 May 2002 17:16, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Xfwm4 is now in CVS for the most adventurous ;-)
>
> What it does already :
>
> - It's based on gtk-2.0
> - It uses pango for font rendering, so it handles plenty of characters
> sets and can use aa text if GDK_USE_XFT is set
> - It implements both GNOME and NET standards, so you can play with
> GNOME, Xfce and KDE all at the same time.
> - It looks pretty cool and run fairly fast, at least on the systems I've
> tested
> - It's stable, I switched both at work and at home and I didn't
> encounter a crash for a loooong time. However, don't sue me if you run
> it and loose the work that should have been done for yesterday ;-)
>
> What it doesn't do
>
> - No task list, no icons. Use either kicker from KDE or panel from GNOME
> if you want this. Later, a separate task manager will be added, so it's
> not a feature that is missing in xfwm4, it will simply be a separate
> application...
>
> What it doesn't do yet :
>
> Xinerama, session management.
>
> To test it :
>
> 1) Make sure you have GTK-2.0 installed on your system (get it from
> http://www.gtk.org), including pkg-config, pango, atk, glib-2.0.1 and
> gtk-2.0.2
>
> 2) Retrieve xfwm4's sources
> # cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.xfce.sf.net:/cvsroot/xfce login
> # cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.xfce.sf.net:/cvsroot/xfce co
> xfce-devel/xfwm4
>
> 3) Compile xfwm4
>
> cd xfce-devel/xfwm4
> ./configure && make && make install-strip
>
> Note that the install procedure is not optimum yet, so it's safer to let
> configure install it in /usr/local
>
> 4) For best results, copy xfce-devel/xfwm4/example.xfwm4rc to
> $HOME/.xfwm4rc
>
> 5) edit $HOME/.xfwm4rc and set the options according to your taste. The
> file is quite self explanatory, however, one cool feature you can test
> is themes.
>
> theme=/usr/local/share/xfwm4/themes/<theme>
>
> where <theme> can be :
>
> agua
> coldsteel
> cruxish
> gtk
> next
> oroborus
> platinum
> redmond
> slimline
> windows
> xfce
>
> You can also choose what buttons are visible and where they are located
>
> # button_layout :
> #    O = Option menu
> #    T = Stick
> #    H = hide
> #    S = shade
> #    M = maximize
> #    C = close
> #    | = title
>
> The default is
>
> button_layout=OTS|HMC
>
> 6) By hard linking ~/.gtkrc to ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (ln ~/.gtkrc ~/.gtkrc-2.0),
> you'll be able to change colors on the fly using the xfce panel.
>
> 7) You can use the attached xinitrc as a starting point.
>
> Cheers,