AskUbuntufvwm autoraise not working after upgrade to ubuntu 24.04 #2404 #fvwm
R.L. Dane (snac)
R.L. Dane 
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Oh man, yeah. I never put anything in {,/usr}/{,s}bin except the occasional symlink.
I want to try a pure "just use base" install of #OpenBSD sometime. ;)
cwm is kinda neat, a wee bit reminiscent of #dwm or #rio, but definitely on the mousey side.
The default theme of the version of #fvwm they ship is kinda too colorful, but I'm sure it's extremely configurable... if I can only learn the rather elaborate config setup for it.
Thomas AdamCoW has now gained a new "module" -- cowident.
The image below shows what it does. When you run it, it will force you to select a window to then report properties on.
It's analogous to FvwmIdent from #fvwm3
Not the sexiest thing in the world, I know, but maybe useful both for those tweaking their config, and for diagnostic purposes.
That's why #FvwmIdent was created -- to allow for diagnostics.
ravenbrooki love posting inflammatory takes on window managers and desktop environments on tumblr.com. a lot of shitting on tiling window managers and shilling #fvwm and #rio
i do unironically really enjoy those desktops too and i actually dont like tiling window managers. probably comes from my distaste for #arch and arch subsidiaries. if you want a diy system just install #gentoo or #lfs
my hatred for arch is only a little embellished.
Currently working on squeeze titlebars.
This is something which some people wanted in fvwm, and it actually comes from #ctwm, whereby the titlebar was squeezed to its length so it didn't take up the whole width of the window.
Wayland doesn't have any shape support (a la XShape extension) so doing this manually is tricky.
Anyway, screenshot attached of what squeezed titlebars will look like in CoW. Options for left, centre, or right aligned.
Oliver Kraitschy@thomasadam I would love to try it out as I'm a big fan of #fvwm as well. Unfortunately I'm on Debian stable so it would be a lot of effort to compile everything...
Kerr Avonsen (she/her)@thomasadam #Fvwm is not in its prime?
Well... I suppose it isn't exactly "popular" nowadays. But heck, every time I try out something new, I stick with it for a bit and then I return to Fvwm!
IT IS SO CUSTOMIZABLE! Even now. Maybe that just makes it the preferred WM for "power users" but even if we are a minority, we are still here.
In 2003, fvwm launched a logo competition:
http://www.fvwm.org/fvwm-ml/10502.html
This was to coincide with fvwm's tenth birthday.
Several suggestions were put forward, as is archived here:
https://www.fvwm.org/Archive/Logos/
This was the winning entry -- there's links from the top of that page to past entries.
I just think it's a lovely piece of window manager history -- and shows the number of users who cared about this.
That was #fvwm in its prime -- alas, not any longer. :)
Hey all. For anyone who's following along. I've just merged support for pages in #cow.
This is also accompanied with a pager.
From what testing I've done, this seems to work for me -- no doubt there's bugs.
The example config in the repo shows what you which settings to enable to make pages work.
If you're interested in giving it a go, please do!
