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| 3 | This is sawfish, a highly configurable window manager for X11. It is |
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| 4 | known to compile on at least Solaris/sparc and Linux/ix86; it is |
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| 5 | released under the terms of the GNU GPL, copyright John Harper |
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| 6 | <jsh@users.sourceforge.net> |
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| 7 | |
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| 8 | For more details, see the url: |
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| 10 | http://sawmill.sourceforge.net/ |
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| 11 | |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | Manifesto |
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| 14 | ********* |
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| 15 | |
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| 16 | Sawfish is an extensible window manager using an Emacs Lisp-like |
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| 17 | scripting language--all window decorations are configurable, the basic |
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| 18 | idea is to have as much user-interface policy as possible controlled |
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| 19 | through the Lisp language. This is no layer on top of twm, but a wholly |
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| 20 | new architecture. |
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| 21 | |
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| 22 | Despite this extensibility its policy is currently very minimal |
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| 23 | compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage windows |
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| 24 | in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. As such it does |
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| 25 | not implement desktop backgrounds, applications docks, or other things |
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| 26 | that may be achieved through separate applications. |
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| 27 | |
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| 28 | All high-level wm functions are implemented in Lisp for future |
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| 29 | extensibility or redefinition. Currently this includes menus (using |
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| 30 | GTK+), interactive window moving and resizing, virtual workspaces, |
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| 31 | iconification, focus/transient window policies, frame theme definitions |
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| 32 | and much more. |
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| 33 | |
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| 34 | Also, most received events are exported to the Lisp environment through |
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| 35 | ``key-bindings'' and hooks, similar to in Emacs. These events include |
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| 36 | pointer behaviour and many internal X11 events (enter/leave, |
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| 37 | focus-in/focus-out, map/unmap, etc..) |
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| 39 | |
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| 40 | Installing |
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| 41 | ********** |
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| 42 | |
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| 43 | To compile this distribution you'll need GNU make, Imlib, my librep |
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| 44 | Lisp interpreter, and the rep-gtk binding installed. Sources for some |
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| 45 | of these are: |
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| 47 | http://librep.sourceforge.net/ |
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| 48 | http://rep-gtk.sourceforge.net/ |
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| 49 | ftp://ftp.enlightenment.org/e/enlightenment/libs/ |
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| 50 | |
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| 51 | After making sure that Imlib, librep, and rep-gtk are installed, do |
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| 52 | something similar to the following in the root of the unpacked sawfish |
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| 53 | distribution: |
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| 54 | |
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| 55 | $ ./configure |
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| 56 | $ make all |
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| 57 | $ make install |
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| 58 | |
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| 59 | If you've got GNOME installed, and you'd like to be able to configure |
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| 60 | sawfish via the control center, pass the --enable-capplet option to |
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| 61 | configure |
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