After a decade of console based applications, the Scheme Undergrund
now turns to graphical user interfaces! With scx, a library for
writing X11 client applications, and Orion, a window manager for X11,
you can now be sure that every communication between you and your
computer is wrapped up in parentheses.
Both packages run on scsh and use Sunterlib, the Scheme Untergrund
Library. Here is a short description of the new packages:
Scx is an interface to Xlib for the Scheme implementation scsh. Scx is
based on the Xlib interface of Elk 3.0 and shares most of the original
API. In addition, scx provides bindings to the xft library for font
rendering.
Scx was written by David Frese, Norbert Freudemann and Eric Knauel and
is available from
<ftp://ftp.scsh.net/pub/scsh/packages/scx/scx-0.1.tar.gz>
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Orion is a window manager for the X11 windowing system. Orion is
written in Scheme and accesses Xlib via the scx library for scsh.
Orion is in fact a family of window managers which can be nested. This
enables great flexibility and efficient handling of X11
applications. Orion currently comes with four child window managers:
* a conventional moving window manager
* a window manager for stacking windows in a frame
* a window manager for splitting windows horizontally and vertically
* a work space manager
Orion also supports saving the window manager layout and programmatic
configuration.
Orion was written by David Frese and is available from
<ftp://ftp.scsh.net/pub/scsh/packages/orion-wm/orion-wm-0.1.tar.gz>
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Martin
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