From: nation@rocket.sanders.com (Robert Nation) Subject: rxvt-1.1c uploaded Message-ID: <1993Jun1.201340.7363@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Followup-To: comp.os.linux Keywords: xvt, xterm, window manager, small resources Sender: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) Organization: University of Helsinki Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 20:13:40 GMT Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius) Lines: 40 Since the first upload of rxvt-1.1 was corrupted, it has been re-loaded to sunsite. This time, a pre-release of a minimum resource usage window manager has been included. The new upload is marked rxvt-1.1c.tar.z to differentiate it from the corrupted version. Rxvt release 1.1 has been uploaded to /pub/Linix/Incoming/rxvt-1.1c.tar.z and rxvt.README. Xvt is an xterm replacement which uses a little less memory, and is suitable for use on machines with small memories. Tek4010 support is removed. Modifications were made by Rob Nation (nation@rocket.sanders.lockheed.com) to make it a little more compact, and to add and remove certain features. Here's what's new since the last release: 1. rxvt now accepts resource input from the .Xdefaults file. 2. The default configuration is 8-bit clean, with 7-bit mode available as a command line or resource option. 3. Added an option to start the window's shell as a login shell for people who don't want to fix their start-up procedures. 4. Fixed a few bugs, including one which caused some versions of "more" to break. Also, some unrelated stuff has been added to the package: 1. rclock - a lighter weight version of xclock. Has the nice feature of displaying the time in analog format when de-iconified, or in digital format when iconified 2. Notes on other tricks to conserve memory when using X. Shows a route to saving a full megabyte of RAM. When running Xmono in 4.25 megabytes of RAM, I now have 1.1 Mebyte free (actually its used for buffers). 3. A pre-release of a fvwm, a minimum-resource-usage window manager has been included. Rob Nation (nation@rocket.sanders.lockheed.com)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce From: nation@rocket.sanders.com (Robert Nation) Subject: new realease of fvwm window manager on sunsite Message-ID: <1993Jul9.193236.16478@dg-rtp.dg.com> Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 93 19:32:36 GMT Fvwm release 0.82 has been uploaded to sunsite, as file /pub/Linux/Incoming/fvwm-0.82.tar.z For people who don't think that realease numbers are floating-point, this can be release 0.8.2. Fvwm is a light-weight window manager which provides a simple virtual desktop and a 3-D look for windows decorations. Memory consumption for Fvwm is about 1/2 to 1/3 that of twm. Some people have obtained fvwm-0.5 improvements since then are too numerous to mention. People who have release 0.8a do not need to upgrade unless they use tcl/tk. -- Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu