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 <lu...@lambrate.inaf.it> 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 > >
