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FVWM Developers Announce New Logo 37

Posted by simoniker from the take-me-down-to-acronym-city dept.
taviso writes "In celebration of 'multiple virtual desktop window manager for the X Window system' FVWM's tenth birthday last year, the developers announced a contest to design a new logo for the project. The votes are in, and the winner has been announced. For some time the meaning of the "f" was lost, and 'feline' was one of many suggestions in the FAQ. The original meaning is described in a history of FVWM. FVWM is a remarkable piece of software - if you havnt seen some of the things you can do with it check out some of these screenshots."
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  • Great job! (Score:5, Informative)

    by Tirel ( 692085 ) on Monday January 05, 2004 @03:12PM (#7883698)
    Well FWIW, I've used a number of window managers in my relatively long UNIX history. I still remember TWM and MOTIF, and I had a WM-less desktop when it was all the rage at MIT. I've used pretty much all versions of GNOME and KDE, though neither for very long. I have used blackbox and its derivates, openbox, pekwm, pwm, vtwm, metacity, an obscure scheme based wm whose name I don't remember, alloywm, aewm(++), kwin, window maker, afterstep, evilwm, and a host of others whose name escapes me because they weren't worth remembering.

    I tell you, nothing compares to the power of FVWM.

    It lets you define multiple workspaces, all of which can have several virtual desktops where you can freely scroll around. Workspaces and desktops are created dinamically as you request them and deleted when you no longer need them, it is completely configurable to a point where you can open a console and talk directly to the window manager, changing the settings and interacting with the WM on-the-fly. It allows any focus model you could possibly imagine, it lets you load modules likes pagers, launchbars, and so on.

    And that is only the beginning.

    So basically, there are window managers (like.. fluxbox, which is impossibly popular among the crowd who only tried the KDE WM and fluxbox and decided fluxbox is the best thing that ever existed), and there are Window Managers.

    • Re:Great job! (Score:4, Informative)

      by leviramsey ( 248057 ) * on Monday January 05, 2004 @04:14PM (#7884416) Journal

      Sawfish allows everything you just listed. Plus, since it's written (except for the lowest level stuff) in a LISPy language, you can modify every aspect of its behavior on the fly.

      • Re:Great job! (Score:2, Interesting)

        by astroboscope ( 543876 )

        Sawfish allows everything you just listed

        But is there a pager available for Sawfish which is as useful as FVWM's? Mine has the active window highlighted in a different color, and all of the windows have abbreviated (icon?) titles in a tiny but legible font. Far more useful than pictures.

        since it's written (except for the lowest level stuff) in a LISPy language, you can

        ...actually understand and do new things. Sigh. There is a PERL interface to FVWM, but I haven't played with it much.

        • But is there a pager available for Sawfish which is as useful as FVWM's? Mine has the active window highlighted in a different color, and all of the windows have abbreviated (icon?) titles in a tiny but legible font. Far more useful than pictures.

          I use sawfish.wm.ext.pager [t-online.de], which, while not updated in over a year (much like Sawfish, regrettably), it could probably match FVWM's (as it's written in the same LISP dialect as Sawfish, so it's thus fairly easy to hack).

      • Re:Great job! (Score:3, Funny)

        by Viol8 ( 599362 )
        "Plus, since it's written (except for the lowest level stuff) in a LISPy language,"

        Is that supposed to be a Good Thing?? Blech!
    • Agreed. FVWM (and saw{mill,fish}) is (are) about the highest functionality/bloat ratio I know of.

      However, this story is about not features but, erm, a logo.
      It's a non-story. And I say that as someone who's used FVWM
      for about 5 of the last 8 years.

      However, the story's here, I might as well take advantage of it. So, regarding the logos:
      a) I really couldn't give a fuck as long as it's not lame.
      b) It's not lame (feline, that is), far from it.
      c) Actually the quality of all the candidates was exceptionally high

    • Re:Great job! (Score:3, Interesting)

      by dasunt ( 249686 )

      The part of FVWM that I enjoy is window arrangement and hotkeying.

      For example, in my config, control-j brings up a custom menu. On that menu, applications and commands are hotkeyed to a single letter.

      When I hit control-j k, focused is switched to my rxvt window. The mouse is automagically moved to the center of the titlebar in the window.

      However, if an rxvt terminal doesn't exist, then control-j k launches rxvt and switches my focus.

      But wait! There's more! With FvwmForms, I have a few hotke

  • nice screenshots :) (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Suppafly ( 179830 ) <(ten.ylfappus) (ta) (todhsals)> on Monday January 05, 2004 @05:40PM (#7885338)
    I might switch from blackbox for a while and try out fvwm. Hopefully its easy to make it look nice like those screenshots. I hate it when you see nice screenshots only to later realize its nearly impossible to make a wm look like that.
  • I just designed some new logos for Gnome and KDE. I used a Giraffe for Gnome (Gnu was already in use), and a Kangaroo for KDE. I'm not sure if they will hold logo contests, but I'm ready for it!

  • Daft name (Score:3, Informative)

    by nickos ( 91443 ) on Monday January 05, 2004 @06:09PM (#7885657)
    I thought it was cool how no-one really knows what the F stood for anymore, and to make it stand for "Feline" just because some of the developers have cats? That's just daft.

    If you can't get hold of whoever came up with the original name to ask them what it was you shouldn't make it up in their absence. They created and named the project and you should respect that.

    By the way, FVWM's a good and very configurable wm. However, as a result of being so configurable it's codebase has to support loads of options and is big as a result. Personally I prefer the smaller window managers such as aewm [red-bean.com] and it's derivatives.

    • Re:Daft name (Score:3, Informative)

      by nanop ( 155318 )
      If you can't get hold of whoever came up with the original name to ask them what it was you shouldn't make it up in their absence. They created and named the project and you should respect that.

      From the article:

      "Rob Nation (the original Author of FVWM) doesn't really remember what the F stood for originally, so we have several potential answers..."
      It seems they did contact the author.
  • That was a while a go. Back in 94 The F stoof for Feeble.
  • ... of an Onion headline from a couple of years ago:

    "New corporate logo changes everything"

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