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Submitted by Paul E. Johnson.


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Submitted by Parv. Parv says: (fvwm 2.5.4) shows titles on bottom and on right hand side, sticky windows with and without title-bars, FvwmPager, and aterm with transparent background and tinting.

You can visit Parv's web site and see the configuration file. See also the annotated version of the screen shot.



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Submitted by Olivier Chapuis. Two screen shots in a small screen (800x600). The first one all panels up, the second one all panels down and the TaskBar hidden. Panels are quite useful on such a screen. The "Window Maker FvwmButtons" has four panels that run only if I use it: this saves my battery.


preview Aug 28, 2003
Submitted by Olivier Chapuis. Two screen shots in a small screen (800x600). The first one all panels up, the second one all panels down and the TaskBar hidden. Panels are quite useful on such a screen. The "Window Maker FvwmButtons" has four panels that run only if I use it: this saves my battery.


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Submitted by Mikhael Goikhman. This is a mix of different fvwm-themes components plus some additional commands in FvwmConsole. This screenshot shows new 2.5.x features like transparent FvwmPager in the upper left, png icons from wm-icons package, tinted transparent menus, multipixmap titlebars, FvwmButtons on the bottom that badly simulates the RedmondXP panel (it is managed by fvwm module written in perl), icons tinted differently in menus, shadow text and FreeType fonts. On the right is gkrellm.

A similar configuration is availaible out of the box in fvwm-themes 0.7.0 or greater.



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Submitted by Michael Han, multistyle decorations including HGradient titles and a nice FvwmButtons, swallowing FvwmPager, procmeter and FvwmIconMan. Liberal use of MiniIcons.


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Submitted by Marc A. Lehmann. This is an Xinerama desktop showing some interesting side mounted titles, flat borders and gradients in the titlebars. The @fvwm2rc@ is M4 based and contains some interesting stuff too.

Mark says: ... features XineramaSls, a really old fvwm config incrementally updated to fvwm2 over the years. The config tries to implement the following:

  • clean and reasonably fast (ok, gradients crept in over time ;)
  • the active window must be very visible
  • lots of virtual desktops, overlaps reduced to the minimum
  • no unnecessary clutter, large terminals
  • syslog on root-window using root-tail


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Submitted by Maciej_Delmanowski. Maciej says: I used FVWM to create my own desktop enviroment. It's called 'FVWM - Crystal' and it's based on the unstable/CVS branch (2.5.6). It's features include:
  • transparent panels/window titles
  • intensive use of mouse buttons; normal is using 2 buttons to make different tasks, usually all three are used
  • new look at user interface, for example close/minimize/kill functions are combined in one title-bar button; there are two modes of moving or maximizing a window; interface is clean and provides a lot of space on the desktop - all panels can be hid by just middle-clicking on the desktop
  • intensive use of keyboard shortcuts (example: numpad, used to control windows - resizing, moving, shading, etc. - has 37 different shortcuts); there are keys to control window placement, moving windows between dekstops and resizing them; also included is control over xmms with additional programs


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Submitted by MURAKAMI Tomokazu. This is FVWM version 2.3.22. It's compiled with the --enable-kanji option. With this, I can use Nipponese satisfactorily. Furthermore, I set up Emacs to be able to use JIS X 0213."


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Submitted by Len Philpot. Len says: it's simple (no transparent terminals, multiple modules, etc., etc), but that might be a nice contrast to all the "walk and talk" .fvwm2rc's out there. It does have custom pixmaps buttons and titlebar, along with FvwmButtons on the taskbar... I'd like to combine the maximize and restore buttons into one.

The question mark button brings up a form containing choices for all the FVWM man pages, which launch in their own xterms.