FVWM Developers Announce New Logo 37
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."
Great job! (Score:5, Informative)
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)
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)
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.
Re:Great job! (Score:2)
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)
Is that supposed to be a Good Thing?? Blech!
Re:Great job! (Score:1)
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)
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
Re:feline? (Score:1)
fat? unresponsive? tell it to my striped friends [zasran.com], you anonymous coward:-)
erik
nice screenshots :) (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:nice screenshots :) (Score:3)
Re:nice screenshots :) (Score:1)
Animals (Score:1)
Daft name (Score:3, Informative)
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)
From the article:
It seems they did contact the author.Re:Why? (Score:2)
And how long does KDE take to launch on a 5 year old computer?
*Sigh* Moron.
Ne'ermind that KDE can't do all the stuff "old" FVWM can.
Re:Why? (Score:3, Informative)
Ahh, but they're definitely not all window managers, they're just projects where the author has added them to the window manager category because it's (sometimes vaguely) related in someway and some people think that the more categories they list their project in the more hits they'll get.
"What is wrong with the standard K window manager on KDE? What is wrong with the Standard Sawfish Window manager with Gnome! This is
Re:Why? (Score:2)
If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand the answer anyway.
You can whine about "choice", but Id rather have one fucntional flawless Window manager than 400 buggy ones that do things differently.
Fine. Let's all standardise on FVWM, then. Because I've yet to see another windows manager that's either as fully featured or as bug free. The various modern window managers don't meet my definition of "functional". They're all too restrictive in one wa
The F used to stand for Feeble (Score:2)
This reminds me... (Score:2)
"New corporate logo changes everything"