From: Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@silmu.cc.jyu.fi>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: MultiWM Release 2 (Broken) - choose best window manager and configuration before starting X
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 20:39:27 GMT
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ANNOUNCEMENT

MultiWM
Release 2 (Broken)
July 22nd 1997



NAME
	multiwm - an interactive bash-script to choose best window manager
	and window manager configuration before starting X

SYNOPSIS
	multiwm [8|15|16|24|36|-w|-c]

DESCRIPTION
	NOTE: Before you try this script, you must make backups of files
	that will be removed by this script (see those rm commands at the
	beginning of script).

	Multiwm-script that you can download from Internet, is just an example
	to be modified to correspond to whatever current systems and
	especially window managers are available and to the user's own	
	personal (perverted?) tastes. The script itself is so well
	commented, that it should not be very hard to modify it for your
	system. Sys admins are strongly ancouraged to modify this script, 
	when window managers are added, upgraded and/or removed. They can
	also add this script or pieces of this script to system wide xinit
	and/or startx scripts if they can. But if your sys admins are some
	kind of BOFH's that are not co-operative with user, he/she can
	use this script from his/her home directory.

	When multiwm is started, it asks if the user wants to use
	default window manager or not. Answer must be entered as letters
	y, n or q (Case is not important). If answer is q, script quits. 
	If answer is y or user just press <return>, default window
	manager and window manager configuration is chosen. If answer is
	n, user is asked to choose one window manager and in some cases
	configuration type from a list. Answer must be entered as number
	found on list. 

	After user have chosen window manager and its configuration 
	multiwm removes some configuration-files used by X from the user's
	home directory and copies right configuration files from users
	directory called .multiwm and its subdirectories to users home
	directory and creates a symbolic link from .Xclients to .xsession.
	If the user did not include 8, 16, 24 or 36 after the multiwm
	command, he will be prompted to choose correct display state (8,
	16, 24 or 36 bytes per pixel). And then X is started via the
	startx-script (except in case of OLVWM via openwin-script).

OPTIONS
	8 
		Use 8 bits per pixel

	15
		Use 15 bits per pixel

	16
		Use 16 bits per pixel

	24
		Use 24 bits per pixel

	36
		Use 36 bits per pixel

	-w
		Show warnings (you can pipe it with your favourite pager)
 
	-c
		Show GNU GPL (you can pipe it with your favourite pager)


	NOTE: Display modes 24 and 32 bits per pixel are not available in
	all systems.


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
	You need some Unix-like operating system with X Window System.
	This script works fine almost out-of-the-box with Red hat Linux
	with XFree86 on an Intel 80x86 PC, but I'd like to know, how this
	work with other Linux distributions (like Debian and Slackware)
	and other Unixes (like FreeBSD, IRIX, Solaris etc.) and X-servers
	(like MetroX and Accelerated X). Script uses a script called
	startx which uses a script called xinitrc and and a stream editor
	called sed. You also must have a shell called bash installed, of
	course.


AUTHORS
	Juhapekka Tolvanen (juhtolv@silmu.cc.jyu.fi)
		(http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~juhtolv)
		Ideas, most testing, documentation, publicity issues,
		distributing and some bash coding. Nerdish and geekish
		student of sociology. User of Red Hat Linux, Sun Solaris,
		IBM OS/2 and Caldera OpenDOS. 

	Mika Jorma Saaristo (mjsaaris@cc.jyu.fi)
		(http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~mjsaaris/)
		Most of the bash-coding and some testing. Student of
		mathematics. Real geek, nerd, hacker and computer guru.
		User of Minix, Linux, Sun Solaris etc.


HISTORY
	Version numbering and naming convention will be like this:
	Release X (some kewl nickname). File naming follows guidelines of
	ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/ 

	Release 2 (Broken) released in July 22nd 1997. This is not 
	actually broken. I'll tell you in documentation of next release, 
	where that name is derived from. These changes were made:
		- Some new window manager entries added
		- Configuration files of Enlightenment are now for
		  version Thebes 1 DR10. 
		- More careful documentation
		- More GNU propaganda added.
		- 4dwm is now called 3dwm, because original creator of
		  that configuration calls it so. 4dwm is a window manager
		  used by an operating system called IRIX used by Silicon
		  Graphics computers. It is actually enhanced MWM. 3dwm is
		  actually the FVWM configured to look and feel like 4dwm.
		- Display states 24 and 36 bpp are now enabled by default.
		- Manual to cope with debates about MultiWM included.
		- file naming convention follows guidelines of
		  sunsite.unc.edu
		- This time Mika Jorma Saaristo was not available for
		  development of this script. That is the reason, why this
		  script is not as good as it could be (Lacks some wanted
		  features).
		- Homepage for MultiWM created:
		  http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~juhtolv/multiwm/

	Release 1 (Debut) released in April 10th 1997. Name of this
	release was derived from an album of Björk (That letter between j 
	and r is o with dots. If it looks like v in your screen, it means
	that you are using an ancient character set called ASCII, so you
	must get a life and ISO-LATIN-1 or maybe even Unicode or
	ISO-10646). Development environments included following hardware
	and software:
		Juhapekka Tolvanen:
		- An Intel Pentium 133 MHz w/ 48 Megs Memory
		- Red Hat Linux 4.1 with Kernel 2.0.29
		- XFree86 3.2 for S3 ViRGE and ViRGE VX
		- bash 1.14.7-1
		- FVWM95-2.0.42a-6 (The Next Level does not work with later,
		  I think)

		Mika Jorma Saaristo:
		- An Intel Pentium 150 MHz w/ 32 Megs Memory
		- Red Hat Linux 4.1 with Kernel 2.0.27
		- XFree86 3.2 for S3
		- FVWM95-2.0.42a-6 (The Next Level does not work with later,
		  I think)


UPDATES AND AVAILABILITY
	Latest version should be available from The Official www-page of
	MultiWM by Juhapekka Tolvanen:

	http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~juhtolv/multiwm/

	http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~juhtolv/multiwm/multiwm-2.1.1.tar.gz


LICENCING
	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
	the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
	any later version.

	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
	GNU General Public License for more details.

	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
	along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
	Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.



- -- Juhapekka "Jiipee" Tolvanen * U of Jyväskylä * juhtolv@silmu.jyu.fi --
- -- http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~juhtolv/ * * * " STRAIGHT BUT NOT NARROW !! " --
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