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SCWM 0.5 This is a beta release of scwm, the Scheme Configurable Window Manager. SCWM is (currently) a hack of FVWM 2 with the fvwm configuration language replaced with Guile Scheme. Eventually, it will support many new features enabled by the powerful configuration language, including a GUI on-the-fly setup. Already many cool features have been added. The base binary is now smaller than fvwm2's, though memory usage is still higher. Placing some features in dynamically loadable shared libraries should help with this even more. This fifth release implements nearly all useful fvwm2 functions, and fixes some of the bugs from the last release. The only functionality still missing is: everything related to modules. FVWM Modules will probably never be implemented, because I have better ways to provide similar functionality. An interactive repl is available through the -i command-line option. This release, although labelled beta, should be pretty stable and moderately useful. I've regularly used scwm as my window manager for about four months now. I've only tried compiling it on i386-unknown-linux, but any platform that both fvwm2 and guile will build on should work. I've heard success reports on sparc-sun-solaris. You need to have guile installed to do the build. See the file INSTALL for further instructions. There's various kinds of documentation and random info in the doc directory, and you can see some examples of what might be done in the system.scwmrc, the gjb.scwwmrc and decor.scwmrc, and also looking at the modules in the scheme directory. However, the system.scwmrc is not very interesting right now. If you think of neat hacks for it, pass them along to me. If people even want to work on the windowmanager itself, that's cool too. Things to look for in the near future include: more cleaning up of the leftover fvwm-isms in the code, restruccturing of the internal data structures, a more complete external interface, and a start on integrating guile-gtk and/or guile-tk so that you can create your own arbitrary gui elements. The copyright for the code in the scwm and libs subdirectories is the fvwm copyright, which may be found in COPYING.FVWM. Several files may have a slightly different copyright, or be under our copyright. The files in the scheme directory are under GPL (see scheme/COPYING). The files in the doc directory are all under the copyright specified by doc/COPYRIGHT.DOC. - Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu> and Greg J. Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu>