sawfish-1.3

Introduction to sawfish

The sawfish package contains a window manager. This is useful for organizing and displaying windows where all window decorations are configurable and all user-interface policy is controlled through the extension language.

Package information

Download (HTTP): http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/sawmill/sawfish-1.3.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://sunsite.ccu.edu.tw/pub10/sourceforge/s/sawmill/sawfish-1.3.tar.gz
Download size: 1.5 MB
Estimated Disk space required: 17.5 MB
Estimated build time: 0.26 SBU

sawfish dependencies

Required

X (XFree86-4.4.0 or X.org-6.7.0), librep-0.17, rep-gtk-0.18, EsounD-0.2.34 and GTK+-2.4.1

Optional

libglade-2.3.6

Installation of sawfish

Install sawfish by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --libexec=/usr/sbin --infodir=/usr/share/info \
  --with-gnome-prefix=/opt/gnome-2.6 &&
make &&
make install

Command explanations

--with-audiofile: This command directs sawfish to use libaudiofile for sound manipulation.

--with-esd: This command directs sawfish to use the Enlightened Sound Daemon.

--with-gnome-prefix=/opt/gnome-2.6: This command directs sawfish to GNOME's directory.

Configuring sawfish

Configuration Information

Be sure to backup your current .xinitrc before proceeding.

cat >> ~/.xinitrc << "EOF"
exec sawfish
EOF

Description

sawfish

sawfish is the extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language.