FVWM-Crystal
FVWM-Crystal
aims to create an easy to use, powerful desktop environment. Unlike
many other lightweight environments, it also features plenty of
eye-candy.
FVWM-Crystal boils down to a set of FVWM
configuration files, some Python and shell scripts, a set of
application icons and images. This combination produces a fairly decent
and customized window manager using FVWM as it's basic
component. With additional software such as ROX-Filer users can create
a usable
and attractive desktop environment.
The environment is very easy to set up as well as being
lightweight, which makes it fast even on
archaic PCs with Pentium I and IIs processors.
Features include:
- Transparent elements of the interface: panels, menus,
dialogs
- Window decorations, panel/menu colorsets and desktop
wallpaper changeable from the main menu; choice saved for next X
sessions
- Flexible window decorations: can have different tilebar
buttons layout, pixmaps, button functions
- Different "desktop layouts" (panel placement and functions,
desktop
functions, window icons/thumbnails), changeable from the menu
- Advanced keyboard support: keybindings for controlling the
desktop
switching, window management (moving, resizing, focusing, basic
operations like minimalization or closing) - nearly 100 different
keybindings
- Support
for controlling music players, using the keyboard or panel buttons and
menus; currently MPD, XMMS, XMMS2, Quod Libet, AlsaPlayer, MPlayer,
audacious,
cmus, mocp and cdcd are supported
- Advanced support of the terminal windows: special
"QuakeConsole"
terminal accessible by an Alt+` (grave) keystroke similar to the
console found in FPP games; terminals can be opened using RMB on the
desktop; terminal windows don't release focus for newly opened windows
(by default)
- Python
script for generating different panels and menus
with installed applications - automatically finds programs in
$PATH
and creates specified menus and panels
- Support for nearly 400 different applications - icons,
menu/panel database entries, window styles
- Different language support using gettext
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