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fvwm Turns Ten
Some Old Dude writes "fvwm, F* Virtual Window Manager, is celebrating its 10th birthday in a few days. This is the window manager I used when cutting my Linux teeth back in the last millennium, and the one I still use today (after trying many newer ones). If it's been a while since you've seen what fvwm can do, check out its features and screenshots."
I was surprised to find twm when I installed X11 on OS X.
Unless all of the choices suck.
Life in Orange County
What does F* stand for?
Nostalgically twm would be more cool. fvwm, fvwm2, fvwm95, icewm, sawfish are the 'other' window managers. The big ones are kde and gnome and friends.
So tonight I will celebrate by switching from icewm to fvwm for a day.
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
I forgot to buy it a gift. I'm so screwed.
and a catchy name too. It really rolls right off of your tongue about like a sawblade. ;)
F* yes! Happy F*'ing birthday! (The BSD devel made me do it).
Really, thanks and congrats to the developers of this great WM: this was my first Linux non-CLI, and it remains my favorite.
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. -Thackeray, William
REAL men use the console. For those forced to use those silly window gadgets by their PHBs, there's NAWM: Not a Window Manager. Non-reparenting, non-eye candy, pure window management functionality and nothing more. Check it out.
In a real emergency, we would have all fled in terror, and you would not have been notified.
my hypercard stack "Escape From The Dark Cassel [sic]" turned 12 today... can we celebrate that too?
<AOL>Me too</AOL^>
"Mouse? Oh, you mean the thing I use to figure out what xterm I want to type in."
(Cripes, even the FVWM screenshots on the almost-slashdotted page look almost too glitzy for my tastes ;-)
or tab completion, or inline editing, etc... Real men use SysV R3 /bin/sh on an old Wyse 60. For a real trip, try the Mashey Shell (predates the Bourne Shell).
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
This is like a "Happy friggin' birthday" greeting. "It's your birthday, here's the Slashdot effect for your birthday." And they can't effectively return the gift if they don't like it.
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I'll wager you never had fourteen shipwrecked mariners tossing about in it, or never been used to plug up a leak on a ship.
Mr. Gates, the time you spend hating people that are cooler than you...
And if you'd quit pestering him about how ugly his fonts are he'd actually get that thesis done.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
Finally. After 10 years of being written by illiterates, it's about time.
You say that like the majority of WMs for X11 *are* good looking.
1)It was good enough 8 years ago.
.fwm*rc file
2)I've got nothing better to do than fuck with my
3)My desktop doesn't look enought like ass yet.
4)I've only got 12M of memory.
5)What the hell X only holds up my xterms, and mozilla.
IANALBIPOOGL (I am not a Lawyer, but I play one on GrokLaw.)
This was thirteen years ago, mind you. I was 3l337 just because I was _using_ the RT, nevermind there wasn't jack shit installed on it except CADAM
Clickety Click
So ugly...can't...concentrate.
Why would we compare anything to Windows 3.0? This isn't a history lesson people. Any window manager for *current use* should be compared to the state of the art *today*. fvwm sucks out loud. Bury it, its starting to smell.
There's this new thing out called text screens. Even Windows XP has it!!! You can find it in XP under start->programs->accessories and it's called "command prompt".
And, get this. Instead of trying to figure out alle the menus and graphics you can just TYPE commands to it! It is my understanding the most UNIX and Linux systems has extended version of this features. One of my friends even saw a machine running TEXT ONLY!! I am sure that once Microsoft wrap their heads around it, they will be all over it. In fact, I would not be surprised if the next Windows would be developed for text use, with backward support for those old graphic programs. Oh, btw, I managed to get the ENTIRE screen in XP to be ALL text!
my sig
Real men eat pancakes in the morning, fart in bed, dress in women's clothing, and hang around in bars.
Ok, I don't eat pancakes, fart in bed, _or_ hang around in bars. What was that about clothing?
Step 1: Post using fake Donald Knuth /. account
Step 2: Use another slashdot account to point out that your own Donald Knuth account is fake
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Karma Profit
(Bonus points to those that have mucked around with X11 enough to know what greyweave is).
Huh? You mean you can put images on the root window?
That should be "person with whom you disagree". Your mama must have been too busy sucking cock to teach you anything.
Especially when you try to pronounce it.
I've heard attempts at putting every imaginable vowel sound between the letters in FVWM, and never with good results.
Yup, just as many of us have not forgotten that the K in KDE is for Kool, or was originally. I wonder why they didn't call it CDE...erm, wait....
But, though KDE is still quite kool if your spelling is atrocious, FVWM need not necessarily be Featherweight in name or functionality. Acronyms can change. Take good ol' Personal Home Page.
This isn't fair. I'm Jewish, I didn't get in on the worldwide Jewish conspiracy. I'm an atheist, I didn't get in on the evil atheist conspiracy. Now I don't get in on the Gay conspiracys either? Life just isn't fiar.
Slashdot: Playing Favorites Since 1997
>I absolutely hated the pager, but I didn't know how to turn
>it off. After about 2 weeks of it, I can't live without it now.
Sound like smoking. At first you hate it, then after a few weeks you cant live without it.