Window Managers
Welcome to the Skunkware Window Managers section. The Skunkware team
has collected a few window managers which some users may wish to run as
a replacement for the SCO Desktop and Motif window managers. Users wil
almost certainly want to customize these window managers, and probably
create custom .startxrc files. Please consult the startx man
page for details on the contents of this file.
These window managers can all use the icons and pixmaps provided in the
Skunkware icon collection (see table below).
Package List
Name |
Description |
Version |
OSR5 |
UnixWare |
skunkpix |
Skunkware icon collection |
1.0 |
Yes |
Yes |
WindowMak |
WindowMaker window manager |
0.50.2 |
Yes |
Yes |
enlighten |
Enlightenment window manager |
0.12.3 |
Yes |
Yes |
fvwm |
ICCCM compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager |
2.0.46 |
Yes |
Yes |
fvwm95 |
Well known product look and feel for fvwm |
2.0.43a |
Yes |
Yes |
kde |
the K Desktop Environment |
1.1pre2 |
Yes |
Yes |
qt |
QT X11 Widget Set |
1.44 |
Yes |
Yes |
Skunkware Icon Collection
This package contains a collection from various sources, of freely
distributable icons and pixmaps for use with the window managers listed
in this section. You should install this package before installing any
of the window managers. If you are using custom (on OSR5) or pkgadd
(on UnixWare), then this package is automatically installed when you
install any of these window managers. If you are using the tar archives,
then you should extract this archive first.
http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/x11/graphics/SkunkPix
http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/x11/graphics/SkunkPix
WindowMaker Window Manager
WindowMaker is a window manager designed to emulate the look and feel
of part of the NEXTSTEP(tm) GUI. It's supposed to be fast, relatively
small, feature rich and easy to configure, with a simple and elegant
appearance borrowed from NEXTSTEP(tm).
http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/x11/winman/
http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/x11/winman/
http://www.windowmaker.org/
http://www.windowmaker.org/
Enlightenment Window Manager
Enlightenment is a window manager for the X Window System Release
11. The main goals are to make it as fast, good looking and configurable
as possible.
http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/x11/winman/
http://www.enlightenment.org/download.cgi
http://www.enlightenment.org/
FVWM - A Virtual Window Manager
FVWM is a very popular virtual window manager. It has been used as
a base for many other window managers, two of which are included here
on Skunkware. FVWM is fast, configurable, and highly usable. It seems,
recently, to be less well supported than its derivatives, but it is
still a popular and useful window manager.
http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/x11/winman/fvwm/
http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/x11/winman/fvwm/
http://www.fvwm.org/download.html
http://www.fvwm.org
FVWM-95 - A Win95 look-alike
This is a hack on the original FVWM code, and was designed to make
X11 look more like Windows 95. This only really helps with the borders
and window decorations, but it does add a start bar which is quite similar
to Windows 95.
http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/x11/winman/fvwm95/
http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/x11/winman/fvwm95/
ftp://ftp.plig.org/pub/fvwm95/
http://www.terraware.net/ftp/pub/Mirrors/FVWM95/fvwm95.html
KDE - The K Desktop Environment
KDE is an elegant and rich graphical desktop. To try it out, add the
following to your $HOME/.profile:
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/kde/bin:.
KDEDIR=/usr/local/kde
export KDEDIR PATH
and create/modify $HOME/.xinitrc such that "startkde" is the last command.
Login on an ansi console screen and type "startx".
Alternately, you can configure your system to use the KDE graphical
login manager by following the instructions in the file
/usr/local/kde/share/config/xdm-setup-uw7.README
Donald Page (donaldp@sco.com) has provided an initial port of KDE
1.1 to OpenServer. His porting notes are available at
http://www.ocston.org/~donaldp/kde/.
With the 1.1 release of KDE for UnixWare 7, i have provided both a
complete pkgadd installable datastream (kde-1.1.pkg) as well as smaller
components (base KDE, KDE games and the remaining KDE files). This will
hopefully help the less well-connected download KDE.
So, you can download either the whole package:
kde-1.1.pkg
(77127680 bytes)
or the following:
kdebase-1.1.pkg
(39910912 bytes)
kdegames-1.1.pkg
( 8381952 bytes)
kderest-1.1.pkg
(28908544 bytes)
All that is really necessary to run KDE is the base package. However,
lots of useful and/or groovy stuff is in the other two packages.
On UnixWare 7, prior to installing the KDE package(s) you must have
installed the following:
http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/x11/winman/kde/
http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/x11/winman/kde/
http://www.kde.org/
http://www.kde.org/
Troll Tech QT Widget Set
Qt is a GUI software toolkit. Qt simplifies the task of writing and
maintaining GUI (graphical user interface) applications.
Qt is written in C++ and is fully object-oriented. It has everything
you need to create professional GUI applications. And it enables you
to create them quickly.
Qt is a multi-platform toolkit. When developing software with Qt,
you can run it on the X Window System (Unix/X11) or Microsoft Windows
NT and Windows 95/98. Simply recompile your source code on the platform
you want.
Qt cuts down the complexity in implementing large and complex systems.
Its ingenious signal-slot technology enables true component programming.
osr5/libraries/qt/
uw7/libraries/qt/
ftp://ftp.troll.no/qt/source/
http://www.troll.no
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