Partial list of features new to 2.6.x

• Full Enhanced Window Manager Hints support
• Full internationalization
• Greatly improved font support, including anti-aliasing
• Improved decoration code (no flickering anymore)
• Featuring side titles, including vertical text
• Powerful WindowShade in all directions, including diagonal
• Supporting PNG including alpha blending
• Image rendering in colorsets
• Perl library for creating modules in Perl
• New module FvwmPerl to enable scripting in rc files
• Optional text shadows (looks nice with light text)

Partial list of features new to 2.4.x

• New dynamical colorset method for defining colors
• New module FvwmGtk to build GTK+ dialogs and menus
• Rewritten and extended functionality of FvwmButtons
• Several new and several removed modules
• Mouse strokes, draw lines to execute commands
• Ability to dynamically create menus
• Several fvwm-menu-* utiliies for creating dynamical menus
• Expanding useful window and desktop specific variables
• Featuring busy cursor in several places
• Full support for ICCCM2
• GNOME Window Manager hints support
• Session management support
• Initial internationalization support
• Xinerama extention support
• Searching files in its own user directory ~/.fvwm/

Partial list of features new to 2.2.x

• New more powerful and sensible rc file format
• Change more features on per-window basis
• Change many features on the fly
• Optional Flat or Pixmap window borders
• Recogizes Open Look hints
• Just about any focus style you can think of
• Unwanted features can be removed at compile time
• CPP preprocesing of the config file
• Titlebars can be suppressed, Pixmaps, gradients, or plain
• Titlebar buttons can be vector graphics, pixmaps or gradients
• Menu hot-keys, continuation menus, pixmaps in and to the side of menus
• Macro definition in the config file
• Animated window movement
• A way to limit the amount of color used by fvwm (for 8 bit displays)
• Window manager commands can come from external programs
• Roll-up type window shading
• Some ability to centrally configure fvwm

Partial list of features common to 1.xx and 2.x.x

• Multiple Disjoint Large Virtual Desktops
• Smaller memory usage (more so in 1.xx)
• Dynamically extensable via modules
• Recognizes Motif MWM hints
• Keyboard or Mouse operation
• Attempts to be ICCCM 2 compliant
• 3-D look to window frames
• Full color shaped icons
• M4 preprocesing of the config file
• Auto-raising of windows
• Multi-screen support
• Cursor (Mouse Pointer) control on a context basis
• Viewport scrolling by moving the mouse off the edge of the screen
• Different window decorations for window that have or don't have focus
• Multiple ways to control icon placement
• Multiple ways to control initial window placement