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fvwm Turns Ten

Posted by michael on from the bad-old-days dept.

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."

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  1. Choice is good... by SpaceCadetTrav · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unless all of the choices suck.

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  2. Mummy? by GauteL · · Score: 5, Funny

    What does F* stand for?

    1. Re:Mummy? by David+Gould · · Score: 3, Funny

      What does F* stand for?

      I've always heard it explained as "Feeble".

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    2. Re:Mummy? by krumms · · Score: 5, Funny

      Mummy what does F* stand for?

      It stands for 'fuck' - what do they teach you in school these days?

  3. Oh man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I forgot to buy it a gift. I'm so screwed.

  4. Cool screenshots... by Stalemate · · Score: 4, Funny

    and a catchy name too. It really rolls right off of your tongue about like a sawblade. ;)

  5. Happy Birthday! by MacOS_Rules · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  6. Reparenting window managers are for wimps by Raul+Acevedo · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:Reparenting window managers are for wimps by zakezuke · · Score: 4, Funny

      Real men eat pancakes in the morning, fart in bed, dress in women's clothing, and hang around in bars.

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  7. birthdays by bongobongo · · Score: 5, Funny

    my hypercard stack "Escape From The Dark Cassel [sic]" turned 12 today... can we celebrate that too?

    1. Re: birthdays by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeaah. How old is Hypercard itself anyway? That's the birthday I'm getting a gift for. I remember my first Hypercard stack. Drawing of a naked woman; when you clicked her nipple it made noises and played screen effects. Immature and simple, yes, but it still beats the hell out of fvwm.

  8. Re:fvwm allowed me to make my perfect linux deskto by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
    > After trying out kde, gnome and xfce, I went back to fvwm and couldn't be happer with my current setup.

    <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 ;-)

  9. Happy Freakin' Birthday? by suwain_2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  10. Re:On fvwm... by PD · · Score: 3, Funny

    And if you'd quit pestering him about how ugly his fonts are he'd actually get that thesis done.

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  11. Re:You have a woman's window manager by Graspee_Leemoor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since you're clearly as mad as a mongoose, I'll bid you farewell.

    graspee

  12. Top 5 Reason to run FVWM by sflory · · Score: 4, Funny

    1)It was good enough 8 years ago.

    2)I've got nothing better to do than fuck with my .fwm*rc file

    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.

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  13. My very first experience with X, Penn State 1990 by The_Dougster · · Score: 4, Funny
    Somehow I managed to wheedle an account on the ultra-elite IBM RT, ostensibly to learn CADAM, and was pissing around with it and I found this mysterious "startx" command which looked promising. I was actually able to start an xterm! In fact I could start as many xterms as I wanted to... in fact there wasn't anything else I could do except start an xterm. But d00d, I had as many xterms as I wanted! Wow! And it was, like, fast! No click MS-DOS Prompt on Windows 2.1 and wait a minute for a shell where I couldn't do anything, instead I had the mysterious $ prompt, with its unlimited possibilites... and unlimited xterms! Wow!


    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 :-)

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  14. Re:Featherweight by cbiffle · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.