Hello everybody, I'd like to announce new versions of Guile XCB and Guile-WM.
Guile XCB 1.3 has just two changes, but they are important. First of all, the installation directories are now configurable with the configure options --with-guile-site-dir and --with-guile-site-ccache-dir. Thanks are due to Song Wenwu for that patch. The other change is a bugfix in the event loop code; previously, calling the `stop!' procedure a listener returned didn't actually stop the listener. Now it does! Guile-WM 1.0 is a major release (hence the 1.0). Here are some new features: - A tiling window manager inspired by Stumpwm - Configurable installation directory - Text rendering changed from unacceptably slow to moderately slow - Hooks that work with partial continuations - Arguments to commands can be supplied interactively - Interactive help commands - Improved support for ICCCM-related stuff - Everything's documented in an info manual now - Lots and lots of bug fixes Thanks to Dave Thompson for a patch fixing a bug in the tinywm module. I believe Guile-WM is now a genuinely useful window manager, and it's easy to customize and add new features. It does have a learning curve because it comes unconfigured out of the box, but you can get started by looking at the manual and the sample configuration file, wm-init-sample.scm, located in the top directory of the source distribution. There are websites for these packages with more information at the urls below. http://www.markwitmer.com/guile-xcb/guile-xcb.html http://www.markwitmer.com/guile-xcb/guile-wm.html -- Mark Witmer
