[184] in Software_Announce
Windowmanagers locker overhaul
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yoav Yerushalmi)
Mon Aug 25 04:18:55 1997
To: windowmgr@MIT.EDU, software-announce@MIT.EDU, sipb-office@MIT.EDU,
cfyi@MIT.EDU
Cc: windowmanagers@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 04:17:48 EDT
From: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>
So, it took a while, and it's probably very broken, but:
the windowmanagers locker is a new locker with newly compiled binaries
and with a different setup. What this means is you may soon see people
asking questions about why things are breaking for them even though
they did nothing..
one of two things has probably happened:
they probably copied some VERY old dotfiles from a friend, and these
dotfiles presumed a setup that is no longer supported (specifically, look
for things such as
/mit/windowmanagers/@sys/vtwm.gamma
OR
they are using a windowmanager that is no longer supported. This
includes
vtwm (tell them to use vtwm.gamma).
fvwm-(billions of names) -- tell them to use fvwm2.
gwm-1.7* -- tell them to use gwm.
olwm, olvwm -- tell them to get a life (or /usr/openwin/olwm).
Now. we also have afterstep and fvwm95 in there. Those are under 'active
development/support, which means that while it probably loads, the default
config file is nowhere near done, so please don't expect those two to
be stable....
WHAT actually happened:
windowmanagers were recompiled. some require you to have
'attach windowmanagers'
the locker layout is now:
/mit/windowmanagers/arch (athena stuff)
/mit/windowmanagers/src (source code)
/mit/windowmanagers/bin -> arch/@sys/bin
/mit/windowmanagers/lib -> arch/@sys/lib
/mit/windowmanagers/share (rc files and such)
We have replicated volumes for each useful architecture
Also, /afs/athena/project/windowmanagers is still there and useable,
but we encourage people to switch away from it, and use the
'attach windowmanagers' concept.
Finally, windowmgr (the hesiod name) is being kept around temporarily
so as not to break the logins of those kind beta-testers who helped out.
However, please use windowmanagers as the locker name, since windowmgr
will go away soon.
thanks for all your help
bugs should go to windowmgr@mit.edu
yoav
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