Posted by: AnomalousUser
on July 30, 2004 08:37 AM
How wrong you are.
For your information, FVWM2 is still under heavy, active development. The latest Suse distro ships with version 2.6, Fedora ships with 2.4.
I have tried over 50 window managers, including Fuxbox and XFCE. IMHO, FVWM2 blows them both out of the water. I have yet to encounter a window manager as feature rich and powerful as FVWM2. And, for those who like eyecandy, FVWM does support 24bit colour, shaped anything, titlebars anywhere and all the usual image formats and gradients.
Some questions for you. Does YOUR window manager support mouse strokes, does YOUR window manager support scripting from arbitrary external processes, does YOUR window manager support dynamic re-configuration of all look and feel for any window, group or class of windows. In fact, can you name even ONE THING that YOUR window manager does that FVWM2 can't. (BTW, I don't mean the 1998 version that you tried once by mistake, I mean the cutting edge version shipped with modern distos).
RE the article, I note that both Enlightenment and AfterStep started out as FVWM forks.
Also, for the record, I do like WindowMaker, and I do like OpenBox and co, but XFCE still leaves me cold. I strongly encourange all GNU/Linux users to check out as many window managers and they can manage. There is a rich rich world of diversity out there! Don't let clowns like the above Anonymous Reader trick you into following sheep.
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Re:MUCH better modern alternatives around
Posted by: AnomalousUser on July 30, 2004 08:37 AMFor your information, FVWM2 is still under heavy, active development. The latest Suse distro ships with version 2.6, Fedora ships with 2.4.
I have tried over 50 window managers, including Fuxbox and XFCE. IMHO, FVWM2 blows them both out of the water. I have yet to encounter a window manager as feature rich and powerful as FVWM2. And, for those who like eyecandy, FVWM does support 24bit colour, shaped anything, titlebars anywhere and all the usual image formats and gradients.
Some questions for you. Does YOUR window manager support mouse strokes, does YOUR window manager support scripting from arbitrary external processes, does YOUR window manager support dynamic re-configuration of all look and feel for any window, group or class of windows. In fact, can you name even ONE THING that YOUR window manager does that FVWM2 can't. (BTW, I don't mean the 1998 version that you tried once by mistake, I mean the cutting edge version shipped with modern distos).
RE the article, I note that both Enlightenment and AfterStep started out as FVWM forks.
Also, for the record, I do like WindowMaker, and I do like OpenBox and co, but XFCE still leaves me cold. I strongly encourange all GNU/Linux users to check out as many window managers and they can manage. There is a rich rich world of diversity out there! Don't let clowns like the above Anonymous Reader trick you into following sheep.
fvwmfan: IANAD (I am not a dog!)
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