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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. Linux? by Breakfast+Pants · · Score: 1, Interesting

    A new release of Window Maker is not exactly linux news. Window Maker can run on pretty much any platform which runs X.

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  2. Fonts setup... by kosmosik · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does anybody know how to change fontface used for drawing ballon tips and window while switching with alt-tab? It should be under some variable in ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker - but I don't know which one...

  3. Comparison? by Kevin+Burtch · · Score: 2, Interesting


    Anyone know of a comparison between GNUstep, WindowMaker, and AfterStep?

    I'd finally given up on WindowMaker a few weeks back, nothing has been happening with it for so long - I was looking at AfterStep, but the configuration and user-interface are a bit different and tough to get used to (AS uses the wrong mouse button for menus, for example). Glad to see it hasn't been completely abandoned.

    Anyways, the original question: Are there any reasonably current (within the last few years) comparisons out there?

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    1. Re:Comparison? by skahshah · · Score: 2, Interesting

      GNUstep isn't a window manager. You can't compare it to Windowmaker or Afterstep. In fact Window maker was the semi-official window manager for GNUstep.

  4. Re:Kudos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Take a look at PWM, "the first tabbed windowmanager". It is small and fast. With a simple configuration-file,one can match against the windowname and place windows wherever one wants them. And it supports dockapps :)