[ANNOUNCE] Sawfish 1.6.3 released!

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de>]

Hi folks,

I'm proud to announce the immediate availability of

	Sawfish 1.6.3
		"Hava Nagila"

What's Sawfish?
===============

Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. Its
policy is very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage
windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. All high-level WM
functions are implemented in Lisp for future extensibility or redefinition.

These are some of the features that set Sawfish apart from other window managers:

* Powerful key-binding: Virtually every functionality provided by Sawfish can be
  bound to keys (or mouse buttons). 

* Event hooking: For many events (moving windows etc.) you can customize the way
  Sawfish will respond. 

* Window matching: When windows are created you can match them to a set of rules and
  automatically perform actions on them.

* Flexible theming: Sawfish allows for very different themes to be created and a
  variety of third-party themes are readily available.

Sawfish was formerly known as Sawmill but then renamed to Sawfish due to pending
patents on the name Sawmill. It's original Author is John Harper who got employed by
Apple which prohibited him to continue working on Sawfish (and librep/rep-gtk). In
Mid 2007 Janek 'The Re-Animator' Kozicki overtook the development of Sawfish. In Mid
2008 Christopher 'Flashrider' Bratusek overtook development of librep and rep-gtk,
followed by Sawfish and SawfishPager in December 2008.

Homepage & Resources
====================

Our Homepage is a Wiki, so you can improve it. Also if you have themes, screenshots,
scripts, snippets or patches to contribute, simply upload them to the corresponding
section. URL: http://sawfish.wikia.com/

Bugtracker: GNOME-Bugzilla
Mailinglist: sawfish-list on GNOME
IRC: #sawfish on Freenode
GIT: GNOME-GIT
Downloads: Tuxfamily

Downloads
=========

Tar/BZ2: http://download.tuxfamily.org/sawfish/sawfish/sawfish-1.6.3.tar.bz2 3,55 MB
Tar/XZ : http://download.tuxfamily.org/sawfish/sawfish/sawfish-1.6.3.tar.xz  2,37 MB

What's New?
===========

1.6.3 "Hava Nagila"
===================

   * Bugfixes
        - In tabbed-windows the left/right end is no longer outside the
          window, if that is too small [Fuchur]

        - Unsupported option `ignore-window-input-hint' is deleted
          which has been invalid for long. [Teika kazura]

        - Honor the user option `maximize-raises' in
          `maximize-window-fullscreen' and
          `maximize-window-fullxinerama', too, not just in
          maximize-window [Nolan Leake]

        - More robustness in applications menu [Teika Kazura, Matthew
          Love]

          Before it broke for 'R' (statistics software), and whitespace
          handling didn't follow the specification.

          Some *.desktop files are not ignored any more either, i.e.,
          leading empty lines and comments are allowed.

        - Allow compilation with -DDEBUG flag passed [Alexey I. Froloff]

   * New Features
        - XRandR events (eg resolution changes) call the new hook
          `randr-changed-notify-hook' [Daniel M. German]
          See *Note RandR and Xinerama::.

        - Tabbed windowing system improvements [Fuchur]
             + Support for transient tab-frames

             + New frame classes:
                  x tab-s (side tab)

                  x tab-ls (side tab, left/bottom end)

                  x tab-rs (side tab, right/top end)

             + Tabgroups now support a set of new properties and
               actions: `type', `set-frame-style', `fixed-position',
               `iconify'. In addition, new tabs gain those properties
               from their parent window.

        - New command `display-window-position' [Teika kazura]

          User chooses a window by cursor and click, and it prints its
          position and size in a popup. Also available as a function,
          defined in `sawfish.wm.util.display-wininfo'.

        - New function `window-pid' [Teika kazura]

          It returns the process ID of a window. (*note Window
          Attributes::

        - Window instance name is now accessible [Teika kazura]

          Technically, the window class consists of "instance" and
          "class", but only the latter was returned previously by the
          function `window-class'. Now with the new optional argument,
          the instance is returned too. (*note Window Attributes::)

        - Customizable lisp directory [Teika kazura]

          User can add lisp directories to be read with the
          environmental variable `SAWFISH_USER_LISP_DIR'. Its value is
          directories separated by colon, like `PATH', and prepended to
          `load-path'. If not set, `~/.sawfish/lisp' is assumed.  For
          example, if you define a module `sawfish.wm.super-hack', then
          it can be read from
          `~/.sawfish/lisp/sawfish/wm/super-hack.jl'.

          User can override system lisp files, too. For example, if
          there is `~/.sawfish/lisp/sawfish/wm/windows.jl', then it
          defines `sawfish.wm.windows', instead of the installed one.
          (But this can easily break your Sawfish startup.) In fact, it
          was possible for some lisp files, but now it's guaranteed for
          all files.

   * Other Changes
        - Info improvements [Teika kazura]
             + "Windows" chapter is partly revised. Function
               `display-window' is documented. Difference between
               `window-wants-input-p' and `window-really-wants-input-p'
               is described. Short description on the root window.

             + In past few versions we made more changes which were not
               described in the news, including clarification in
               viewport, workspace and event, and window matching lisp
               functions.

             + Added a faq item on multi-head and workspace.

             + Edition number and the date of last change are dropped
               from the info.  We now edit the info often, so they are
               not so much meaningful.

        - Pressing the lock-button does the state-change of the window
          accordingly. [Fuchur]
          No theme shipped with Sawfish does have the lock-button yet,
          though.

        - Make xinerama an optional dependency [original patch from
          Gentoo]

Have Fun!
Chris

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Re: Schöner abstürzen mit Kernel-Modul provoke_crash
Score: 3 Von lilili am Fr, 29. Januar 2010 um 19:43

man braucht sogar ein extra geschriebenes Programm damit es abstürzt, weil man
das sonst nicht wirklich fertig bringt ;o). Ich geniese das.