 FVWM with internationalization features and some additional modules. The F(?) Virtual Window Manager (The F currently has no official meaning[1]) is a virtual window manager for the X Window system. Originally a twm derivative, FVWM has evolved into a powerful and highly configurable environment for UNIX systems. Image File history File links Fvwm Logo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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History
In July 1993, irritated with the then-ubiquitous twm after experiencing many of its limitations during his work analysing acoustic signatures for the United States Department of Defense, Robert Nation began hacking twm to find out why it used so much memory, and to add support for virtual desktops. In computing, twm (Toms Window Manager or Tab Window Manager) is the standard window manager for the X Window System, version X11R4 onwards. ...
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Already well known for his popular rxvt terminal emulator, Rob worked on reducing the memory consumption of his new window manager. Deciding to test FVWM's reception, on June 1, 1993 Rob bundled it with an rxvt release. It was a success; many people were tired of the awkward and limited twm and were hungry for a capable replacement. The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...
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FVWM is renowned for its high quality code base; many developers base their own projects on FVWM in order to benefit from the years of refinement and development. Many of the popular window managers in use today are related to FVWM: Afterstep, XFce, Enlightenment, and many more. On Microsoft Windows 95, 98, and ME you can enter the Windows device manager by clicking Start, Settings, Control Panel, System icon, and clicking on the Device Manager tab. ...
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Originally, FVWM was the Feeble Virtual Window Manager, but at some point the meaning of the F was lost. When Google published the old news group archives acquired from DejaNews, the original meaning was re-discovered, however the FVWM developers decided they prefer the "Mysterious F" interpretation and it has stuck to this day. Google, Inc. ...
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In 1994 Rob Nation stopped developing FVWM, and made Charles Hines the maintainer. Rob Nation's last release of FVWM was fvwm-1.24r. The post-Rob Nation version of FVWM uses a different configuration file format, and has a significantly different architecture. Many Linux distributions, as a result, distributed both fvwm-1.24r and later releases of FVWM as separate programs. As of 2005, fvwm-1.24r still compiles and runs on a modern Linux system without any problems. A small number of users continue to use the older FVWM release. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
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Features An extensive list of FVWM features would require a very large document; this is a partial list based on the version distributed with FVWM.
Many of these features can be disabled at runtime or compile time, or dynamically for specific windows or loaded and unloaded as modules, or many other possibilities. These are not rigid features, the FVWM developers do not propose to know how your desktop should work or look like, these can be configured to work, look and behave the way you want them to.
- Full EWMH, ICCCM-2 and GNOME Hints support.
- These standards allow FVWM to interact with desktop environments such as GNOME and KDE.
- Full internationalisation support, including multi-byte characters and bidirectional text.
- FVWM has been translated into many languages using gettext, supports Asian characters, and bidirectional languages, e.g. Hebrew.
- Xft2 font support.
- Anti-aliasing, drop shadows of any size, at any offset and at any direction, text rotation, and many other features.
- Titlebars can be disabled, or rendered on any window edge.
- Animated Window Shading in all directions, including diagonal.
- Shading windows allow you to hide windows whilst you work on something else.
- Full PNG Support, including alpha blending.
- You can create png images for use in your titlebars and menus. Alpha-blending allows you to create some very attractive effects.
- Perl library for extending FVWM using Perl, scripting and pre-processing of configuration files using M4, FvwmPerl or CPP.
- FVWM can easily be extended, via scripting; and pre-processing allows you to make dynamic FVWM configurations.
- FVWM can be used to make a very accessible environment, for example mouse-less operation.
- Build dialogs, menus and applications with FvwmForm, FvwmGtk and FvwmScript.
- FvwmButtons module.
- FvwmButtons is a powerful module for creating panels on your desktop, it can swallow other applications, change dynamically, and has many other features.
- Support for Mouse Gestures.
- Mouse gestures allow you to draw shapes with your mouse, and bind them to commands.
- Create dynamic menus, several utilities for making use of this feature are included with FVWM.
- FVWM includes utilities for browsing your filesystem, fetch headlines from the internet, and much more all from your menus.
- Session management support.
- Use a session manager to create desktop states, save your FVWM session exactly as you left it and recreate it when you return.
- Xinerama extension support.
- Use FVWM with two or more monitors, FVWM will allow you to work with the monitors seamlessly and efficiently.
- Dynamically extensible using modules.
- Use only the features you require, load and unload modules.
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Quotations "FVWM is the way to go. [...] Looks nice, works fine, has all the important features and is small to boot. I like much of the twm stuff, but twm is rather ugly and has some problems. FVWM looks much nicer and does it all and is very configurable." - Linus Torvalds, Project coordinator and original developer of the Linux kernel, in 16 Dec. 1993 comp.os.coherent Usenet post.[2]
"Question: What is your favourite window manager? Alan: Are you trying to start a fight with someone? I don't know. Mostly I used fvwm. [...] What I probably think is the neatest window manager, which I don't run, is window maker." Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel. ...
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- Alan Cox, Linux kernel programmer, 2nd Linux-Tag conference (28 Nov. 1999).[3]
"I've been a confirmed fan of fvwm ever since I started using this layout; it increases my efficiency fantastically. Every other Linux window system has bad ideas about the focussing --- every option of KDE and GNOME is broken in some important way!" Alan Cox (born 1968) is a programmer heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel since its early days (1991). ...
- Donald Knuth, 31 Dec. 2003 posting to the fvwm mailing list.[4]
"The name FVWM used to stand for something, but I forgot what. (Feeble, famous, foobar? It doesn't really matter, this is an acronym based society anyway.)" Donald Knuth at a reception for the Open Content Alliance. ...
- Robert Nation, in an early FVWM man page. See also: fvwm faq.
Derivatives
Fvwm Family Tree, displaying some of the many FVWM derivatives. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (817x709, 45 KB) fvwm family tree File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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