This is the announcement of VTWM 5.4.6, an upgrade of the five-year old 5.4 release of the window manager for the X Window System. Highlighting the major changes from release 5.4.5a: - m4 preprocessing of the resource file. VTWM can now share a common .twmrc with TWM and other TWM derivatives, and support by-user, by-group, and by-feature configurations. - Regular expressions ("RE"s) support for resource file window lists. Much more sophisticated than VTWM's own wildcarding. - Sound effects, by way of the rplay library and daemon. What's wrong with a little chrome? - Applet regions, for all those little tools we have up all the time. - Scrolling menus, for those with more entries than the display can handle. - 3D doors and the virtual desktop. All 3D features are rendered on opaque resizes (well, except for one case). - Windows can be resized or moved from the virtual desktop, icon managers, and menus not of the root or window in question. - Better (dare I say it, "complete"?) support for multi-headed systems. And, of course, many more bug fixes, tweaks, additions, and changes. VTWM continues to be 100% backward-compatable with TWM. It can still build and run under X11R4, and lose no self-supported functionality. Release 5.4.6 supports the many features expected of "modern" window managers, is highly configurable, yet it keeps a small footprint and quick response. VTWM is quite portable; it has been built on over a dozen different OSes, across nine platforms. The web page, www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/vtwm.html, has been updated, and the archive may be found via a link there, or directly via FTP at ftp.visi.com/users/hawkeyd/X/ and ftp.x.org/contrib/window_managers/ (if and when they move it there from contrib/INCOMING/). Visit the above web page for installation notes, complete histories, and more. David J. Hawkey Jr. (hawkeyd@visi.com) November 3, 2001