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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. Anniversary release by gleather · · Score: 5, Informative

    They released a new version today QUOTE: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fvwm/ The changes in this release are as follows: All single letter variables are deprecated, and multiletter variables are provided. The NoWarp menu position hint option works with root menus too. WindowListFunc is executed within a window context, so a prefix "WindowId $0" is no longer needed in its definition, and it is advised to remove it from user configs. FvwmEvent executes all window related events within a window context, so PassId is not needed anymore, and all prefixes "WindowId $0" may be removed from user event handlers.

    --
    Idiot.
  2. Re:Mummy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    [From the fvwm faq:]

    1.1 What does FVWM stand for?

    A: "Fill_in_the_blank_with_whatever_f_word_you_like_a t_the_time
    Virtual Window Manager". Rob Nation (the original Author of FVWM)
    doesn't really remember what the F stood for originally, so we
    have several potential answers:

    Feeble, Fabulous, Famous, Fast, Foobar, Fantastic, Flexible,
    F!@#$%, Flashy, FVWM (the GNU recursive approach), Free, Final,
    Funky, Fred's (who the heck is Fred?), Freakin', Flawed,
    Father-of-all, Feivel (the mouse from "An American Tail"),
    Frungy (hey, where does that come from?), Floppy, Foxy,
    Frenzied, Funny, Fumbling etc.

    Just pick your Favorite (hey, there's another one!), which will of
    course change depending on your mood and whether or not you've run
    across any bugs recently. I prefer Fabulous or Fantastic myself,
    although I often use F!@#$% or Freakin' while debugging...

    Recently 'Feline' is becoming popular. Perhaps this has something
    to do with the discovery that four of the six core developers have
    cats (averaging 1.17 cats)? Miaow.

    Know what? I found another one while stroking my cats: FEEDING :-)

    Check this link:
    fvwm-cats

  3. Featherweight by Newtonian_p · · Score: 5, Informative
    The 'F' stands for Featherweight. It was called that way because it was originally less ressource intensive than twm (tabbed window manager) on which it is based.

    The author might have forgot what his acronym stands for but some people remember the original announcement.

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    There are 2 kinds of people in this world: Those who write in decimal and those who don't

  4. well, there are probably better choices now by 73939133 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Fvwm was nice back then. But even if you want a small, light-weight window manager, there are probably better choices than fvwm these days: Oroborus, Blackbox, IceWM, Ion, to name just a few. Their code tends to be cleaner and their configuration and code tends to be more modular.