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Window Maker 0.90.0 Released At Long Last

Posted by timothy on from the clean-and-functional dept.

BEI01 writes "From windowmaker.org: After years without a release, we are glad to announce that Window Maker 0.90.0 is out! Highlights are NetWM support (thanks to Peter). This means wmaker should work fine with GNOME 2.x and KDE 3.x. UTF-8 support, antialiased text support via Xft2, Xinerama support, enhanced Alt-Tab window switching, Font configuration in WPrefs, and many fixes."

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  1. Important to note by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's important to note that Window Maker is part of the GNUStep project which is a cross-platform, object-oriented framework for desktop application development, free software implementation of NeXT's OpenStep, which celebrated its 10th birthday on October 19th. For anyone who is interested, there is much more info here.

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    1. Re:Important to note by Brandybuck · · Score: 2, Informative

      It's important to note that Window Maker is part of the GNUStep project

      It's also important to note that WindowMaker does not use the GNUstep API in any form.

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  2. Kudos by Khazunga · · Score: 3, Informative
    Here's my biggest Kudos to the Windowmaker dev team :-) Wmaker has been by window manager of choice for the last four years. While I recognize the advances of the Gnome/KDE projects, I've tried both multiple times and always come back to Wmaker. It just feels right.

    My main gripe with other window managers is the inability to set the "Initial Workspace" (virtual desktop) per application. When wmaker starts, all my apps load and pop up in their respective workspaces. If they fire up windows, these get contained in the app's virtual desktop, and do not interrupt my work. Really cool, and unmatched by other WMs (to my knowledge).

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    1. Re:Kudos by potHead42 · · Score: 1, Informative

      Check out Devilspie, it allows you to set the workspace and other settings (layer, tasklist/pager-visibility) per window. And it's a standalone-app, so it works with all WMs.

  3. Re:Linux? by Brandybuck · · Score: 2, Informative

    It should be noted that before this thread existed this article was only in the Linux section. After this thread it gets moved to the BSD section with a link in the Linux section.

    WTF?

    Meanwhile, it still hasn't been tagged with the GNUstep topic, which Windowmaker is officially a part of.

    WTF?

    Does anyone else think that Slashdot's continuing popularity is a result of mere inertia?

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  4. Re:That's great! by namekuseijin · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, but it doesn't do a proper emulation, nor provides the necessary functionality to ensure the same sort of user experience.

    Not only it does provide proper emulation, it surpasses it by providing (some very nice) themes.

    However, WMaker is concerned with the NeXTSTep visual alone. If you want "necessary functionality", i suggest you install the whole GNUStep environment. Feel the love... :)

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