title Configure FVWM - Make your own Linux Window Manager
user sitha
ip 130.160.240.184
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A few of you may remember a window manager from back in the day called FVWM.  No?   Perhaps one called "That really ugly, complex pink THING."  I suspect that may ring more bells.

FVWM has been around for ages, and has stepped well beyond its eye-searing pink roots.  While the defaults are still pretty rough, it provides virtually endless configuration possibilities--you can make it do almost anything another window manager can, and look like almost anything....not to mention things other managers/environments never dreamed of.  Look at  a few screenshots!

/link http://fvwm-themes.sourceforge.net/screenshots/ Screenshots

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My own file includes icons, a dock, an auto-hiding console, menu-based wallpaper selection, and multiple window decorations.

The downside, generally:  it tends to be difficult to configure.  In hopes of opening it to more people, I've thrown up a site full of full tarred configurations, in most cases complete right down to the icons.  Give it a look!  If you decide youlike it, and make your own, mail me your .fvwm file, and I'll add it promptly. :)

/link http://www.as.ua.edu/~flux/fvwm Fvwm Theme Pack Site

Enjoy!  Feel free to offer comments/suggestions!

~[[sitha]]  (betterthanyou@gmail.com)

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