Thank you, Chris, thank you for minding me. I am glad to see that, the great sawfish wm is under very active development. I have used 5 independent wms: afterstep (long time ago), xmonad, openbox, i3-wm and sawfish (very recently). Undoubtedly, sawfish is the best one.
However, such a great window manager as sawfish occupies only a little market [see, e.g., 1]. I feel that, it 's kind of waste of resources. I hope you can agree that, it would be a good thing to do some marketing to attract more users. I took some time to install the last version this afternoon, but failed. I have tried some different ways. (1) Google finds no ppa for my Lubuntu 12.04. The latest ppa I have found is [2], which is for ubuntu 10.10. (2) The 3rd party precompiled packages was not for my 32bit system [3]. (3) Convert fedora rpm to deb, and then install it. However, the librep in my system seems too old, as a result, sawfish cannot launch. (4) Compiling from git, but the dependence is rather complex. I am not an experienced user there and cannot make librep installed, although I have managed to resolve the dependence. (5) Compiling from source also failed. It seems this was the best way, which may success if I have tried it before making the dependence improper. Last, I chose to give up, and roll back to the old version. Previously, I have noticed the i3wm maintains its updates in an elegant way [4]. It was said that, rest assured that sur5r will update i3wm automatically. I am not familiar with the packaging techniques. Still, I hope sawfish can learn from it. In my opinion, such maintenance technique is one of the most important aspects of the marketing. [1] http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=xmonad%2C+i3-wm%2C+afterstep%2C+sawfish%2C+openbox&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 [2] https://launchpad.net/~mmaruska/+archive/sawfish [3]deb http://apt.nanolx.org/ photonic main deb-src http://apt.nanolx.org/ photonic main [4] http://i3wm.org/docs/repositories.html With best regards, M.W. On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Christopher Roy Bratusek <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, EdgeActions appeared in 1.7.90 (1.8 Beta) and we're already at 1.9.1 > (stable) (1.9.90 GIT). > > Besides many bugs have been fixed since 1.5.3 (and more new fancy features > added). > > Regards, > Chris > > Am 2012-10-12 01:37, schrieb Mogei Wang: > >> Thank you, Chris! >> And it seems I should upgrade my sawfish first, since I cannot locate >> "SawfishConfig => EdgeActions" in the current version 1.5.3. >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Christopher Roy Bratusek >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> There are EdgeActions. You can enable them from SawfishConfig => >>> EdgeActions. >>> >>> There's expand action that resizes a window to the half screen-size >>> according >>> to the edge window was dragged (nothing stock for 25%). >>> >>> Via ~/.sawfish{/rc,rc} you may do something like >>> >>> (defvar-setq top-edge-move-function >>> (lambda (win) (some-fancy-func-to-achieve-what-you-want win))) >>> >>> I strongly suggest reading EdgeActions docs: >>> >>> info sawfish Workspace EdgeActions >>> >>> On Friday 12 October 2012 00:14:50 Mogei Wang wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> Can sawfish resize the window to 1/4th of the screen, when it is >>>> dragged to some corner of the screen? I cannot find such scripts. >>>> Could someone address this feature? >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance! >>>> >>>> yours, m.w. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Sawfish ML >>> > > --- > Nano > > -- > Sawfish ML > -- Sawfish ML
