Fvwm : The best window manager :)
Hi all ! My Name is olivier, i'm 38 years old now ( damn ! i can't believe it myself ). I've started messing with GNU/Linux and Gnome2 around 2003. Like many of you, i've tested so much DE - WM like fluxbox,xfce, enlightenment 6 & 7, icewm ... Back in these times, some guys on gentoo's forum were talking about Fvwm ( around 2005 ) so i decided to give it a try. Many configs were available , and many people used to talk on the Fvwm forums. I managed to learn how to use the damn "thing" but without going further. Then i moved for gnome 2 again.All was fine until the gnome team decided to move for Gnome 3.That was a treason. So i needed something to replace my desktop.I've made some room for xfce ...
it was great but ...
I'm using Funtoo ( a gentoo fork ), and i had one day some trouble with dependancies. This GNU/Linux distribution is a source distrib, and you have to mess everyday with deps.Even if things are a lot better today, compiling from sources a desktop can brings a lot of SH#!~"% and it bored me, it was time to find something lighter to manage and ...get back to Fvwm !
I've been testing this config for 2 years now.It's almost finished for me.I don't really need anything more. I've decided to share it.It will be my tribute to Fvwm :) Please feel free to hack it. If you have any question, please ask on fvwm forum.Da config
some screenies :
Since i know you all very well ;) here the links to wallpapers :
Empire of the lights (blue config)
Brokenwaves (light config)
Golden pavilion (dark config)
You'll need: Xclock, Xterm, Feh, Xcalendar, trayer-srg, Xosview, Alsa and compton if you want transparent windows.
Features : Calendar ( top-right of screen ) , volume control, theme-changer.
Resolution is 1920x1080.
Grab my config
You'll may need this dot Xdefaults
What to do with it ?
- Uncompress the archive in your
root( oops ! ) home dir. - Go to .fvwm
- Give X bit to the generate-menu script in menu/
- put some walls in walls dir
- You'll need to work a bit with the mixer script to make it work on your mixer ( alsa only ). It points to an hda_mixer by default.
- Same thing with the cpu_temp.script.It parses the output of the "sensors" command.
- Edit some configs files ( mainly sidebar.fvwm2rc)
- Get the Xdefaults and put it in $HOME/.Xdefaults
- I think you are done, but maybe i'm wrong :P
Thanks to:
All Fvwm coders and community: What has been done is much appreciated and i've learned a lot.
Thomas adam: He has given many of his time for Fvwm.he always has been precise with his informations, and helped many of us, thank you thomas.
The black dragon : A discreet guy but always around.He is admin on Fvwm forum.
Lucky: He was an involved fvwm user , he had a web site called "station-linux.org".This site was really helpfull.
Taviso ( tavis ormandy ) : well , i think everybody knows his config, he was ( and still is ) a real hacker.In facts, this config was started with taviso's one.My first idea was to "restore" his old config.You'll find some parts of his code in mine.
PEM: His config was ( is ) really nice.One of the first config i've tried to hack => PEM's config
And thank you to all other people i forgot here.
All Fvwm coders and community: What has been done is much appreciated and i've learned a lot.
Thomas adam: He has given many of his time for Fvwm.he always has been precise with his informations, and helped many of us, thank you thomas.
The black dragon : A discreet guy but always around.He is admin on Fvwm forum.
Lucky: He was an involved fvwm user , he had a web site called "station-linux.org".This site was really helpfull.
Taviso ( tavis ormandy ) : well , i think everybody knows his config, he was ( and still is ) a real hacker.In facts, this config was started with taviso's one.My first idea was to "restore" his old config.You'll find some parts of his code in mine.
PEM: His config was ( is ) really nice.One of the first config i've tried to hack => PEM's config
And thank you to all other people i forgot here.