About:
Sawfish (the window manager formerly known as Sawmill) is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based extension language. All window decorations are configurable and all user-interface policy is controlled through the language. Its aim is to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. As such it does not implement desktop backgrounds, application docks, or other things that may be achieved through separate applications. Sawfish is mostly GNOME-compliant; almost all configuration may be made through a graphical interface.

Author:
John Harper <jsh __at__ unfactored __dot__ org> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.58/10.00 (25 votes)

Homepage:
http://sawfish.wikia.com/
Tar/GZ:
http://sourceforge.net/[..]up_id=32&package_id=17&release_id=577641
Changelog:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=577641
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/sawfish/
Mailing list archive:
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/sawfish-list

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		Desktop Environment :: Window Managers

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.3.3	18-Feb-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

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 Comments

[»] Great Window Manager
by sdt (Stefanus Du Toit) - Dec 29th 1999 10:56:30

I'm not kidding, this is the best window manager I've ever seen.
It's customisable down to hell and back, and does *everything* I ever wanted from a window manager - and it uses 0.0% CPU and 1.7% MEM on my P-II-400 with 128 MB RAM (i.e. the resource usage of blackbox with the comfort of something I've never seen before).

If you're interested in a good WM for gnome, you really should try sawmill!

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[»] 0.20 still broken
by Shaman - Dec 20th 1999 12:50:51

sed: Ending delimiter missing on substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da creating lisp/Makefile sed: Ending delimiter missing on substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da creating capplet/Makefile sed: Ending delimiter missing on substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da creating themes/Makefile sed: Ending delimiter missing on substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da creating man/Makefile sed: Ending delimiter missing on substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da creating po/Makefile sed: Ending delimiter missing on substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da creating Makedefs sed: Ending delimiter missing on substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da creating Makefile sed: Ending delimiter missing on substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da creating sawmill.spec sed: Ending delimiter missing on substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da

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[»] Yikes!
by Shaman - Dec 6th 1999 11:32:00

Sawmill stopped compiling on Solaris with this release. creating src/Makefile sed: Ending delimiter missing on substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da creating lisp/Makefile sed: Ending delimiter missing on substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da creating capplet/Makefile sed: Ending delimiter missing on substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da creating themes/Makefile sed: Ending delimiter missing on substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da creating man/Makefile sed: Ending delimiter missing on substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da creating po/Makefile sed: Ending delimiter missing on substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da creating Makedefs sed: Ending delimiter missing on substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da creating Makefile sed: Ending delimiter missing on substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da creating sawmill.spec sed: Ending delimiter missing on substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da creating config.h config.h is unchanged

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[»] Re: Yikes!
by david watson - May 13th 2002 12:54:40


> Sawmill stopped compiling on Solaris
> with this release.
>
> creating src/Makefile
> sed: Ending delimiter missing on
> substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da
> creating lisp/Makefile
> sed: Ending delimiter missing on
> substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da
> creating capplet/Makefile
> sed: Ending delimiter missing on
> substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da
> creating themes/Makefile
> sed: Ending delimiter missing on
> substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da
> creating man/Makefile
> sed: Ending delimiter missing on
> substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da
> creating po/Makefile
> sed: Ending delimiter missing on
> substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da
> creating Makedefs
> sed: Ending delimiter missing on
> substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da
> creating Makefile
> sed: Ending delimiter missing on
> substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da
> creating sawmill.spec
> sed: Ending delimiter missing on
> substitution: s%@LINGUAS@%da
> creating config.h
> config.h is unchanged
>


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[»] sawmill is extremely fast
by Steve - Oct 2nd 1999 16:22:14

For those looking for a nice gnome aware window manager that is not slow, try out sawmill. It's extremely fast and well worth checking out.

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