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= FVWM =
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Introduction
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The F Virtual Window Manager (FVWM) is a virtual window manager for
the X Window System. Originally a twm derivative, FVWM is now a window
manager for Unix-like systems.
History
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In 1993, during his work analyzing acoustic signatures for the United
States Department of Defense, Robert Nation began hacking twm with the
intent of simultaneously reducing memory usage and adding support for
virtual desktops.
Already known for his rxvt terminal emulator, Nation worked on
reducing the memory consumption of his new window manager. Deciding to
test FVWM's reception, on June 1, 1993, he bundled it with an rxvt
release.
In 1994, Rob Nation stopped developing FVWM and made Charles Hines the
maintainer. Rob Nation's last release of FVWM was fvwm-1.24r. The
post-Rob Nation version of FVWM uses a different configuration file
format and has a significantly different architecture. Many Linux
distributions, as a result, distributed both fvwm-1.24r and later
releases of FVWM as separate programs. , fvwm-1.24r still compiles and
runs on a modern Linux system without any problems. A small number of
users continue to use the older FVWM release. In late 1998 the office
of FVWM maintainer was abolished and a group of volunteers conducted
further development.
Many window managers in use today have been influenced by FVWM,
notably Afterstep, Xfce, Enlightenment, and Metisse.
Name
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Originally, FVWM was named the 'Feeble Virtual Window Manager', as
stated by Robert Nation in a 1997 Linux Journal interview, claiming
the name had been chosen because original releases had almost no
user-selectable features. When Google published the old newsgroup
archives acquired from DejaNews, the original origin of the name was
re-discovered. However, when Chuck Hine was answering questions for
the official FVWM Frequently Asked Questions, Chuck had never agreed
with the 'feeble' explanation and added alternate possible meanings of
'F' (as in the name of the window manager) to the FAQ, with many
entries coming from mailing list messages.
Features
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Many of these features can be disabled at runtime or compile time, or
dynamically for specific windows, among many other options. FVWM
provides the ability to configure the desktop to work, look, and
behave the way the user wants it to.
* Supports any number of virtual desktops, each divided into multiple
pages.
* The viewport (the physical screen) can be moved smoothly (in
configurable steps) in the virtual desktop area, independent of pages
* The viewport can move automatically when the mouse hits the border
of the screen
* Full EWMH, ICCCM-2 and GNOME Hints support.
* Full internationalization support, including multi-byte characters
and bidirectional text.
* XFT2 font support with anti-aliasing, drop shadows of any size, at
any offset and at any direction, text rotation.
* Any behavior, action, or event is fully configurable.
* Support of user defined Window Decoration Styles.
* Titlebars can be disabled, or rendered on any window edge. This can
be done individually for each window type.
* Titlebars may have up to ten icons including minimize, maximize and
close buttons.
* Animated Window Shading in all directions.
* Iconification
* Full PNG Support, including alpha blending.
* Perl programming library for extending FVWM using Perl, scripting
and preprocessing of configuration files.
* Can be extended via scripting. Preprocessing allows dynamic
configurations.
* Toolkit to build dialogs, menus and applications at runtime.
* Configurable desktop panels.
* Mouse Gestures allow to draw shapes with the mouse, and bind them to
commands.
* Dynamic menus; utilities to browse the filesystem, fetch headlines
from the internet from menus included.
* [http://linuxgazette.net/100/adam.html Session management] support.
* Xinerama extension support to use more than one monitor.
* Dynamically extensible using modules.
* Supports focus stealing
See also
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* Comparison of X window managers
* FVWM-Crystal, a theme.
External links
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* [https://www.fvwm.org/ Official FVWM Web Site].
*
*
[https://web.archive.org/web/20040203131154/http://xwinman.org/fvwm.html
Matt Chapman's Window Managers for X].
* [https://xteddy.org/xwinman/ Current replacement for Matt Chapman's
Window Managers for X].
*
[https://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1993Jun1.201340.7363%40klaava.Helsinki.FI
Announcement of first FVWM release from Rob Nation].
*
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110816221935/http://fvwmwiki.xteddy.org/IRC/HashFvwm/
#fvwm IRC Channel FAQ].
* [http://www.fvwmforums.org FVWM community forums].
*
[https://web.archive.org/web/20101121181951/http://fvwmwiki.xteddy.org/
FVWM community wiki].
* [http://www.zensites.net/fvwm/guide/ FVWM Beginners Guide] by Jaimos
F Skriletz.
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