2009/6/12 Frédéric Perrin <frederic.perrin@xxxxxxxx>: > I'm surprised that in this thread, nobody mentionned FVWM yet. It's a > bit "the great old one", one upon which quite a number of other WM are > based, but it is still actively developped. It is maybe a bit bigger > that other WM mentionned, but we are far from KDE / GNOME / XFCE. > > A great strength of FVWM is its configurability (don't forget it is > coming from someone who uses emacs ;-). The default desktop is rather > rough. Instead, you are expected to configure it to your linking. The > behaviour of the WM is completely definable. You can have titlebars with > ten buttons bind to any mouse button doing any action you wish, dynamic > menu that fetch there contents over the Net, panels that swallow > arbitrary applications. It supports UTF-8, PNG transparency and > blending, binding actions to mouse motion (haven't tried this one > yet...), Xft2 fonts, etc. > > It can be as silent or as intrusive as you like, just giving you a frame > around windows to move them or a full environment that doesn't pity some > DE's ones. > > There is quite a diversity of shots in fvwm.org's screenshots section > (but the artistic taste of some is sometimes lacking :). > > -- > Fred I've been using FVWM-Crystal for a little while and I'm not planning on going back to XFCE (which i've been using for a coupe of years). I too like FVWM (and FVWM-Crystal) configurability. Although it's a steep learning curve at first, I managed to get the basics to my liking farely quickly (thanks in part to the concept of recepies) and I will do more tweaking as I go along. For some screenshot you can check out http://www.fvwm-crystal.org/screenshots.html -- Louis Brazeau Informaticien
