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/
ftp://ftp.hpc.uh.edu/pub/fvwm/version-2/
http://www.hpc.uh.edu/fvwm
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/
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.html.
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
Last Updated: Thursday Mar 25, 1999 at 16:55:40 PST
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