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- AfterStepClassic v1.1
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-
- AfterStepClassic is based on Afterstep v1.0. The goal of this new
- development branch is primarily to retain and improve on AfterStep's
- well-tested stability -- and only secondarily to add new features.
-
- I started this new branch reluctantly. There were memory leaks in 1.0
- that urgently needed fixing, and I could not wait for AfterStep 1.2,
- 1.3, and so on to stabilize first. I hope that someday the two branches
- will merge, but in the meantime people can get their work done.
-
- This first release of AfterStepClassic is mostly a bug fix; there are
- only two user-visible changes:
-
- (1) Application-supplied icon windows (i.e. animated icons) should now
- work.
-
- (2) Maximized windows are now able to avoid the Wharf even if it lives
- on the left edge of the screen. However, if you move the Wharf
- you have to modify your .steprc file to agree with the Wharf's
- new location; see the Maximize command in the manual page.
-
- See the ChangeLog file for a list of the other modifications.
-
-
- Upgrading from AfterStep v1.0
- -----------------------------
-
- Since AfterStepClassic is still in beta, you probably should not
- overwrite a working AfterStep installation. Instead, I recommend
- that you do the following.
-
- Only two executables have changed: the executables "afterstep" and
- "Wharf". Hence:
-
- (1) Untar the archive and change to directory "AfterStepClassic-1.1beta1".
- (2) ./MakeMakefiles; make
- (3) Modify your ~/.xinitrc file to start the new "afterstep".
- (4) Modify your ~/.steprc file so that ModulePath gives priority to
- your new Wharf.
- (5) Exit your entire X session (not just afterstep) and restart X.
- (6) Enjoy!
-
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- Here is an extract from the ChangeLog file:
-
- Tue Feb 3 19:18:46 1998 Stephen Ma <stephen_ma@mindlink.net>
-
- * AfterStepClassic 1.1 beta 1
- - Fixed: large server-side pixmap leak when textured title bars
- are closed.
- - Fixed: small server-side pixmap leak on deiconification.
- - Application-supplied icon windows (i.e. animated icons) now work.
- - The Maximize command can now avoid a Wharf that lives on the
- left edge of the screen. However, you have to modify your
- .steprc file to enable this.
- - Wharf now unswallows any swallowed windows just before quitting.
- This keeps X from complaining when you terminate Afterstep.
- - The new Afterstep command EXIT_FIRST, which is available only to
- modules, allows Wharf to avoid a race condition on swallowed
- windows. See "module-interface.txt" for the (slightly) revised
- module protocol.
- - Wharf: on exit no longer dumps 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF to stdout if
- sound is not enabled.
-
- Stephen Ma <stephen_ma@mindlink.bc.ca>
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