Hi,

ropers wrote on Wed, May 08, 2019 at 12:23:09AM +0200:

> Tangentially related: Does anyone here routinely use the default fvwm?

Yes, i don't use any other window manager.

> Now for a really noobish question: Those that do, do you also launch
> graphical apps by typing something like this in xterm:
> 
> $ firefox > /dev/null 2>&1 &

More or less.  Sometimes, i simply do

  $ firefox

and leave the terminal open in case i want to look at the error messages.
Sometimes, i type

  $ firefox & exit

which is shorter.

> or do you normally do something else that I've totally overlooked?

No.  The only program is start by clicking the mouse is xterm(1).

Yours,
  Ingo

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