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FVWM Developers Announce New Logo

Posted by simoniker on from the take-me-down-to-acronym-city dept.

taviso writes "In celebration of 'multiple virtual desktop window manager for the X Window system' FVWM's tenth birthday last year, the developers announced a contest to design a new logo for the project. The votes are in, and the winner has been announced. For some time the meaning of the "f" was lost, and 'feline' was one of many suggestions in the FAQ. The original meaning is described in a history of FVWM. FVWM is a remarkable piece of software - if you havnt seen some of the things you can do with it check out some of these screenshots."

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  1. Re:Great job! by dasunt · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The part of FVWM that I enjoy is window arrangement and hotkeying.

    For example, in my config, control-j brings up a custom menu. On that menu, applications and commands are hotkeyed to a single letter.

    When I hit control-j k, focused is switched to my rxvt window. The mouse is automagically moved to the center of the titlebar in the window.

    However, if an rxvt terminal doesn't exist, then control-j k launches rxvt and switches my focus.

    But wait! There's more! With FvwmForms, I have a few hotkeys that will launch a form if the app isn't already running. For example, control-j w will launch a form with the listing of all my MAME roms, where I can select whatever rom I want to play, and it will automatically launch xMAME with the rom. Other applications might launch to a specific page of a specific desktop. Or when I hit the hotkey combo, the app might launch without switching my focus (good for slow-launching applications).

    Ne'ermind other nifty features of FVWM such as FVWM buttons, which will turn any app into a dockapp. Or being able to launch an application to a specific 'layer' of the display. Or being able to build menus on the fly.

    Sure, some window managers come close[1], but I'm happy with FVWM. Lean, fast, and capable.

    [1] I'm told sawfish is pretty customizable, but haven't used it myself.

  2. Re:Great job! by astroboscope · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Sawfish allows everything you just listed

    But is there a pager available for Sawfish which is as useful as FVWM's? Mine has the active window highlighted in a different color, and all of the windows have abbreviated (icon?) titles in a tiny but legible font. Far more useful than pictures.

    since it's written (except for the lowest level stuff) in a LISPy language, you can
    ...actually understand and do new things. Sigh. There is a PERL interface to FVWM, but I haven't played with it much.
    --
    If we were ants living on a Rubik's cube, differential geometry would be a little more confusing.