FVWM: Using FVWM manager on RHEL 6 system
Morning, I am interested in using fvwm on a Centos 6 and curious if this is a viable idea. Couple of observation I have noticed that is a bit worrying: - There hasn't been any commit against this project for almost 2 years - Is the mailing list public? Google searches are only bringing up very dated information which lead to a feeling no one is using this manager recently Any chance there is someone here using this manager on any recent Red Hat derived distribution and would like to share their experience please? Regard, William
Re: FVWM: Using FVWM manager on RHEL 6 system
On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 9:51 AM, William Muriithi wrote: > Morning, > > I am interested in using fvwm on a Centos 6 and curious if this is a viable > idea. > Yes, fvwm should work just fine on Centos 6. You may want to compile the 2.6.8 release instead of using the package available in CentOS for the most current version. > Couple of observation I have noticed that is a bit worrying: > > - There hasn't been any commit against this project for almost 2 years There have been multiple commits in the last 2 years, and 2.6.8 was released less than a month ago. You must not be looking in the correct spot. Check github and fvwm.org. Fvwm is mostly in maintenance mode, and commits are mostly bug fixes. The project hasn't seen much new development in a while, but it is still active and a stable window manager. It should run just fine on CentOS. > - Is the mailing list public? Google searches are only bringing up very > dated information which lead to a feeling no one is using this manager > recently > Yes, the mailing list is public. The info to find the archives is on fvwm.org http://www.fvwm.org/support/#lists jaimos
Re: FVWM: Using FVWM manager on RHEL 6 system
Hello,
On Tue 2018-06-19 15:51 , William Muriithi wrote:
> Morning,
>
> I am interested in using fvwm on a Centos 6 and curious if this is a viable
> idea.
>
> Couple of observation I have noticed that is a bit worrying:
>
> - There hasn't been any commit against this project for almost 2 years
> - Is the mailing list public? Google searches are only bringing up very
> dated information which lead to a feeling no one is using this manager
> recently
>
> Any chance there is someone here using this manager on any recent Red Hat
> derived distribution and would like to share their experience please?
I didn't test on CentOS, but did on RHEL-{6,7}. Configuring EPEL [1]
and installing fvwm using yum might be all you need.
Martin
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[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
