Fvwm

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

UPDATE: I figured this crap out. Here are some examples of FVWM configuration keybindings. I could finally cease the use of the garbage called sxhkd # Win + Return

Key Return A $[Mod1] Exec st

# Win + R

Key R A $[Mod1] Exec dmenu_run

# Win + Shift + S

Key S A $[Mod2] Exec /bin/scrot -s

# Win + Shift + I

Key I A $[Mod2] Exec st -e ssh smash tmux -u2 a

# Win + Shift + T

Key T A $[Mod2] Exec st -e tmux -u2 a

further reading

• fvwm3(1)
• fvwm-crystal(1)
• FVWMCrystalFAQ(1)
• conky(1)