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New comment by fvwmuser in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

fvwmuser — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:30:17 +0000

Considering the base version of fvwm is no longer supported by anyone on planet Earth, it's there because it's deraad's preference, and that's fine.

Newer versions are available in ports.

It's important to remember that fvwm is customisable so it doesn't need to look dated. Given enough time, it's possible to have an environment which suits the individual just fine.

In the wayland world, this is carried over to: https://cow-wm.codeberg.page/cow/

New comment by fvwmuser in "FVWM-95 (2001)"

fvwmuser — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:23:37 +0000

fvwm95 was a fork of fvwm2 and has remained in that state, and never updated.

It was created at a time when the theming in fvwm was not as flexible, but it's completely possible to emulate all of fvwm95 in fvwm3, and behind the scenes, the application support in fvwm3 greatly outweighs the version of fvwm2 which fvwm95 wad forked from.

In other words, it remains a curio in fvwm's history, and that's where it should remain.

New comment by fvwmuser in "Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port (2023)"

fvwmuser — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:59:47 +0000

It's not the "difficulty" it's the fact that the technologies are completely different.

See: https://gist.github.com/ThomasAdam/5377540b3025f7f04735d96ee...

New comment by fvwmuser in "Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port (2023)"

fvwmuser — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 21:22:13 +0000

True -- but then, FvwmButtons was never meant to compete with systray stuff, the original spec came via EWMH for that. and didn't really affect FvwmButtons' raison d'être.

New comment by fvwmuser in "3-JSON"

fvwmuser — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 15:12:02 +0000

I wouldn't have said this is anything new.

FreeBSD has libxo[0] integrated into some of its tools:

[0] https://github.com/Juniper/libxo

New comment by fvwmuser in "Not so Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE)"

fvwmuser — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 21:06:04 +0000

There's still time for you to learn...

New comment by fvwmuser in "M4 as a templating language (2020)"

fvwmuser — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 14:33:16 +0000

Yes -- same with CPP as well. Fvwm2 allowed you to use the language features of M4/CPP to hold variables and to perform loops on different data, so you could generate complex config files that way, without needing to build that into the core config syntax itself.

However, in fvwm3, I've removed both those modules.

New comment by fvwmuser in "Speed Is the Killer Feature"

fvwmuser — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 16:45:39 +0000

There's nothing stopping you using FVWM or XFCE on newer hardware either.

New comment by fvwmuser in "FVWM3"

fvwmuser — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 22:21:07 +0000

You'd be surprised at just how popular this is still. I think people appreciate the flexibility, even if that means things being on their terms.

Plenty of applications still operate with text files (just look at emacs/vim) and the people that use those have no problems editing text files.