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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. Great job! by Tirel · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well FWIW, I've used a number of window managers in my relatively long UNIX history. I still remember TWM and MOTIF, and I had a WM-less desktop when it was all the rage at MIT. I've used pretty much all versions of GNOME and KDE, though neither for very long. I have used blackbox and its derivates, openbox, pekwm, pwm, vtwm, metacity, an obscure scheme based wm whose name I don't remember, alloywm, aewm(++), kwin, window maker, afterstep, evilwm, and a host of others whose name escapes me because they weren't worth remembering.

    I tell you, nothing compares to the power of FVWM.

    It lets you define multiple workspaces, all of which can have several virtual desktops where you can freely scroll around. Workspaces and desktops are created dinamically as you request them and deleted when you no longer need them, it is completely configurable to a point where you can open a console and talk directly to the window manager, changing the settings and interacting with the WM on-the-fly. It allows any focus model you could possibly imagine, it lets you load modules likes pagers, launchbars, and so on.

    And that is only the beginning.

    So basically, there are window managers (like.. fluxbox, which is impossibly popular among the crowd who only tried the KDE WM and fluxbox and decided fluxbox is the best thing that ever existed), and there are Window Managers.

    1. Re:Great job! by leviramsey · · Score: 3, Informative

      Sawfish allows everything you just listed. Plus, since it's written (except for the lowest level stuff) in a LISPy language, you can modify every aspect of its behavior on the fly.

  2. Re:Daft name by nanop · · Score: 3, Informative
    If you can't get hold of whoever came up with the original name to ask them what it was you shouldn't make it up in their absence. They created and named the project and you should respect that.

    From the article:

    "Rob Nation (the original Author of FVWM) doesn't really remember what the F stood for originally, so we have several potential answers..."
    It seems they did contact the author.