FVWM
FVWM is a powerful ICCCM2 compliant multiple virtual desktop window
manager for the X Window System. It was originally derived from twm.
It is designed to minimize
memory consumption, provide a 3D look to window frames, and a
virtual desktop.
There are 3rd party projects to provide automatic
configuration and
themes (FVWM-Crystal
and FVWM-Themes). FVWM itself provides a default
configuration file generator, in which certain options can be chosen.
Features include:
- Image rendering
- Supports any number of virtual desktops, each divided into
multiple pages
- Xft2 font support with anti-aliasing, drop shadows of any
size, at any offset and at any direction, text rotation
- Titlebars can be disabled, or rendered on any window edge
- Animated window shading in all directions
- Perl
based module library for extending FVWM using Perl,
scripting and pre-processing of configuration files
- Full PNG Support, including alpha
blending
- Extended via scripting. Preprocessing allows dynamic
configurations
- Toolkit to build dialogs, menus and applications at runtime
- Configurable desktop panels
- Mouse Gestures allow to draw shapes with the mouse, and
bind them to commands
- Dynamic menus; utilities to browse the filesystem, fetch
headlines from the internet from menus included
- Session management support
- Xinerama extension support to use more than one monitor
- Support for XRender, and Xcursor
- Dynamically extensible using modules
- Side titles
- EWMH, ICCCM-2 and GNOME
Hints support.
- Internationalisation support, including multi-byte
characters and bidirectional
text
- Bi-directional
asian text support
- Extended Window Manager Hints support allows the use of
docks, widgets, and such.
- Colorset used to define color, gradient, transparency, etc.
in specific areas of themes, backgrounds, icons, etc.
- WindowStyle command used to segregate styles to individual
elements
- Unmanaged command used to separate any window from FVWM
control
- FocusStyle allows focus stealing
- Window states can be used to perform functions on similar
groups
- XFT font are support
- Module dynamic actions allow changes while running
- Menu now uses XDG specifications
- PNG/SVG support for icons
- Mouse gestures and window-specific key / mouse bindings
- Lots of new style options for themers
- A new script to upgrade FVWM 2.4 configuration files
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