It is the best Window manager around. I use it with a simple 4x24 virtual
window environment. No other window manager I have seen is capable of doing
this. It is great for accessing multiple environments in a organized fashion.
I use it on Slackware, where it is part of the distribution, and RHEL where I
have to install it.
Don
John Wiggins wrote on 09/06/2016 11:52 AM:
>
>> On Sep 6, 2016, at 10:27 AM, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 6 Sep 2016, Werner Scheinast wrote:
>>
>>> FVWM has shrunk down to a - as you call it - crackpot project. Only few
>>> people are using it, these are mainly old guys like me (I'm 45) who know
>>
>> Well then, who am I (61) ? Methuselah ? :-)
>>
>
> Nope, guess would be me, as I turn 68 next month. :-)
>
> I copied a TWM config from a colleague at work around 1987/1988. I switched
> to fvwm in the early 90s, perhaps from the same colleague at work.
> FVWM was obviously better than TWM, and the virtual desktops was probably the
> major reason for the change.
>
> I’ve stuck with fvwm all these years and platforms, bothering to compile
> FVWM for systems that did not have it, because this WM does all I want and my
> interest was to preserve my workflow.
> I am a touch typist, and similar to using emacs, my fingers just
> automatically do what I want, and I would probably need to look at what my
> fingers/hands do automatically to tell you about key or mouse-button
> bindiings.
>
> There are perhaps a few folks even older than me on this list, and perhaps
> some who still use FVWM for similar reasons.
> Perhaps even a few (like me) who are using only slightly-modified .fvwm2rc
> files that hey copied from friends for colleagues ages ago.
>
> BTW, my desktop bitmaps go back to TWM and have been dragged along all this
> time, too.
>
> jw
>
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