Re: FVWM: What is the history of FVWM?

From: Marcus Lundblad <ml_at_update.uu.se>
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 02:19:14 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Andy Arbon wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was having a discussion with a mate about our respective choices of
> window manager and it occurred to me that I know very little about where
> FVWM came from..
>
> Who started it? When? What was it based on? I'd find info on this sort
> of thing quite interesting if anyone knows anything about it.

The guy who started it was Rob Nation.
The earliest mentioning I could find on usenet dates to July of 1993.
The code was (as far as I know) based on twm.
It was designed to mimic mwm (Motif's WM), (but actually IMHO the default
window border handles look a bit like IRIX's 4dwm).


// Marcus
>
> Perhaps it'd be worthy of a page on the FVWM website too?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Andy
>
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