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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

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:

• Graphics libraries
• QT libraries
• Enlightenment terminal emulator
• Xlockmore screen saver

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