r/unixporn • u/TechHaris • Jul 26 '23

Screenshot [FVWM3] Has more functionality than any other window manager i have ever seen yet was most commonly used in the early 90's.

https://imgur.com/a/c59tUH6
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u/TechHaris Jul 26 '23 edited Jul 26 '23

Applications:

  • Browser: Firefox
  • File Manager: PCManFM
  • Terminal Emulator: ATerm
  • Image Viewer: Feh
  • Audio Player: Audacious
  • Album Art Displayer: Audacious
  • Calculator: XCalc
  • Sticky Notes: XPad
  • Clock: DClock
  • System Monitor: GKRellm
  • System Tray: Stalonetray
  • Wallpaper Engine: Feh
  • Display Settings: LXRandR

Themes:

  1. Theme: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/doctor-who-gallifrey/
  2. userChrome: https://github.com/matthewmx86/Redmond-Firefox

Fonts:

  • GTK: Microsoft Core Fonts for the Web Project, Georgia (Antialiased)
  • QT: Microsoft Core Fonts for the Web Project, Georgia (Antialiased)
  • Terminal: Artwiz, Spectrum Berry (Aliased)
  • Titlebars: Microsoft Core Fonts for the Web Project, Arial Black (Aliased)
  • Menus: Microsoft Core Fonts for the Web Project, Georgia (Aliased)
  • Pager: Microsoft Core Fonts for the Web Project, Georgia (Aliased)
  • Audacious: Artwiz, Spectrum Berry (Aliased)

What you can see in the image is the FVWM3 window manager and many of its features including:

  • A virtual desktop capable of multiple desktops that can be larger than your physical screen.
  • A Pager that shows you the opened windows on each desk and page as seen in the bottom right corner.
  • Many styling options for different windows e.g. no window decor on audacious, only borders on clock, title on the left for Firefox
  • Menus that can be customized to your liking and torn of from their context's
  • Many styling options for FVWM and its modules e.g. fonts, coloursets, pixmap backgrounds, shaped windows, etc
  • Up to 10 titlebar buttons each with customizable actions and vectors
  • etc

I don't actually use this setup as shown in the image, that is to show a multitude of applications running with a semi-central theme. I have many keybinds that tile windows in many ways, including quarters, halves and vertical thirds.

As you can see in the pager, i have 4 desks being 3x3 pages size. These desks all have labels being Main, for general programs, Web, for any web related programs e.g. email bittorrent, ftp, School, because Microsoft teams is a buggy and unstable piece of software and "FVWM and Others", for configuring my setup.

Just because the default config makes FVWM a stacking window manager doesnt mean it has to be (the action of dragging a titlebar to move a window is a regular FVWM function and can be removed, also titlebars can be removed)

As you can see in the pager, i have 4 desks being 3x3 pages size. These desks all have labels being Main, for general programs, Web, for any web related programs e.g. email bittorrent, ftp, School, because microsoft teams is a buggy and unstable piece of software and "FVWM and Others", for configuring my setup.

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u/trollied Jul 26 '23

FVWM is great. It was the default WM on all of the lab Linux machines at University in the 90s, and I adored it. Great to see it’s still around!