gwm_exec* files are precompiled gwm executables for some architectures to help 
installation. They are only on ftp at koala.inria.fr:/pub/gwm not to waste
space on ftp.x.org and its mirrors.

You must get the executable AND the associated release, e.g. 
gwm_exec_VERSION_ARCHI.gz and gwm-VERSION.tar.gz.

Then decompress and copy the gwm_exec_VERSION_ARCHI somewhere in your PATH,
naming it gwm and making it executable with chmod a+x. 

Then create a directory to hold the machine-independent lib files, e.g:
GWMLIBDIR (recommended: /usr/local/lib/gwm), and decompress the source distrib
and into it, do a:

    cp -p data/* data/.??* GWMLIBDIR

(this not to forget the two dot-prefixed files in this dir!)	  

and set an environment variable GWMPATH to point to it:
    
    export GWMPATH=$HOME/gwm:GWMLIBDIR
or
    setenv GWMPATH $HOME/gwm:GWMLIBDIR

NOTE: this last step is not necessary if GWMLIBDIR is set to the compiled-in
one (/usr/local/lib/gwm), that you can saw as the last line printed by "gwm -h"

************************************ WARNING *********************************
GWM sends me an udp packet with just the value of "gethostname" for
my private statistics on startup. You can disable this feature by recompiling
with -DNO_GWM_LOG or -DNO_KOALA_SPY, or you can also set the shell
environments NO_GWM_LOG or NO_KOALA_SPY to disable this feature without
recompilation.
******************************************************************************

DOCUMENTATION: in the source distribution:
 * a tiny man page: gwm.man
 * a reference manual in LaTeX in doc/, with the postscript version as 
   doc/gwm.ps (~ 120 pages)

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Colas Nahaboo, Koala, BULL @ INRIA Sophia, http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas