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Personally I am too lazy to configure fvwm from scratch so I just used fvwm-crystal. It is in Debian repos and modifying fvwm-crystal configuration to my needs. I also configured fvwm-crystal to use [https://rox.sourceforge.io rox] as it's "desktop manager" (whatever that means). | Personally I am too lazy to configure fvwm from scratch so I just used fvwm-crystal. It is in Debian repos and modifying fvwm-crystal configuration to my needs. I also configured fvwm-crystal to use [https://rox.sourceforge.io rox] as it's "desktop manager" (whatever that means). | ||
Update: I found rox to be absolute unusable garbage so I just use the fvwm-crystal thing as it comes by default with some configuration for the Desktop Icons. | |||
== Keybindings == | |||
I've found [https://www.fvwm.org/Wiki/Config/Bindings/ FVWM bindings] configuration to be absolute garbage. So I just used [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/sxhkd sxhkd] to configure keybindings to open the terminal and take screenshots | |||
== further reading == | == further reading == | ||
Revision as of 09:50, 19 January 2025
fvwm is a minimal window manager. You can configure it from scratch or use a distribution like fvwm-crystal. It started as a fork of twm back in 1993. In Year of Our Lord 2025. The thing still looks like we are in the 90s. Which is neat for some users.
Personally I am too lazy to configure fvwm from scratch so I just used fvwm-crystal. It is in Debian repos and modifying fvwm-crystal configuration to my needs. I also configured fvwm-crystal to use rox as it's "desktop manager" (whatever that means).
Update: I found rox to be absolute unusable garbage so I just use the fvwm-crystal thing as it comes by default with some configuration for the Desktop Icons.
Keybindings
I've found FVWM bindings configuration to be absolute garbage. So I just used sxhkd to configure keybindings to open the terminal and take screenshots
further reading
- fvwm3(1)
- fvwm-crystal(1)
- FVWMCrystalFAQ(1)
- conky(1)