WindowMaker 0.92.0 released

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

WindowMaker v0.92.0 was released a couple of days ago. The last release (0.91.0) was made nine months ago.

I’ve been using WindowMaker as my window manager ever since I started using GNU/Linux. I’ve tried out just about every window manager out there, but none are as good as WindowMaker. It does, however, still contain some annoying bugs; some of which have been fixed in this release:

– fixed bug with windows shrinking to very small sizes when Unmaximize was used on them, after they were closed in a maximized state.

The full list of changes lists all the changes for this release.

I wonder when they’ll fix the bug where all windows on a virtual desktop lose focus when you change to a desktop that doesn’t have any open windows. This’ll probably take a while since most WindowMaker users seem to be using the Dock and Clip which might just cause this bug not to show up.

I’ve been thinking about doing some development on WindowMaker myself. Particularly, I’d like to see these things implemented:

• Bugfix for the bug mentioned above
• Horizontally growing ‘Windows’ menu. Right now window titles are cut off way too short.
• Some of the features available in wmakerconf aren’t available in WPrefs

But since I haven’t the time for even the most basic maintenance of certain things, I guess I’ll never get round to it.