[ANN] Guile XCB 1.3/Guile-WM 1.0

[ANN] Guile XCB 1.3/Guile-WM 1.0

[mark.d.witmer]

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

Re: [ANN] Guile XCB 1.3/Guile-WM 1.0

[Thompson, David]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 4:18 PM,  <mark.d.witmer@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