./wm/9wm, Rio-like Window Manager for X

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 1.4.2, Package name: 9wm-1.4.2, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

9wm is an X window manager which attempts to emulate the Plan 9 window
manager 8-1/2 as far as possible within the constraints imposed by X.
It provides a simple yet comfortable user interface, without garish
decorations or title-bars. Or icons. And it's click-to-type. This
will not appeal to everybody, but if you're not put off yet then read
on. (And don't knock it until you've tried it).

One major difference between 9wm and 8-1/2 is that the latter provides
windows of text with a typescript interface, and doesn't need to run a
separate program to emulate a terminal. 9wm, as an X window manager,
does require a separate program. For better 8-1/2 emulation, you should
obtain Matthew Farrow's "9term" program (ftp://ftp.cs.su.oz.au/matty/unicode),
version 1.6 or later (earlier versions don't cooperate with 9wm in
implementing "hold mode"). Of course, you can run xterm under 9wm as well.


Required to build:
[pkgtools/x11-links]

Master sites:

Filesize: 21.581 KB

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   2024-10-10 19:23:12 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
9wm: Include missing <sys/time.h> for struct timeval
   2022-05-18 21:48:23 by Nikita | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
9wm: Update to 1.4.2

There are no release notes from upstream, here is a partial list of changes
from the git commit log:

- Use sigaction(), not signal(), for SIGCHLD.
- Don't mix declarations and code.
   2021-10-26 13:25:22 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (106) 
Log message:
wm: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums

All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes
   2021-10-07 17:05:15 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (106) 
Log message:
wm: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
   2020-01-18 22:40:24 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (4) 
Log message:
9wm: Update to 1.4.1

Changes:
- We got a patch upstreamed, but have to add another.
   2019-11-04 22:50:16 by Roland Illig | Files touched by this commit (13) 
Log message:
wm: align variable assignments

pkglint -Wall -F --only aligned --only indent -r

No manual corrections.
   2017-05-20 13:50:10 by Joerg Sonnenberger | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
Match PLIST with do-install. Bump revision.
   2017-05-16 23:10:03 by Benny Siegert | Files touched by this commit (6) 
Log message:
Update 9wm to 1.4.0, now developed on GitHub.

There are no release notes from upstream (short of commit
logs), here is a partial list of changes:

- no more manual window placement
- color support
- support for fullscreen and shaped windows
- format string and memory fixes
- compatibility fixes for some toolkits
- window titles are UTF-8