On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 4:18 PM, <mark.d.wit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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
Awesome!!! > - 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 > This release seems like a major upgrade. Can't wait to try it out. Thanks! - Dave
