playing with fvwm2

**cga** · 04-06-2003, 03:01 PM

OK folks, I installed fvwm2, dug into the manual pages and looked at some of the great information available out there on the web, and hacked myself a nice .fvwm2rc file.

And I rather like this wm. Very much. I am starting to see why it has such a loyal (if small) following and why it has been around for ten years. It is very good software. It is very "Unix-like" in nature. It is small, fast, stable, very configurable and has some history.

In short, it looks like my kind program!

**pbharris** · 04-06-2003, 03:11 PM

i must say i agree with ya cga!

**cga** · 04-10-2003, 01:13 AM

OK, FVWM rocks. I think I'm hooked. ;D

**pbharris** · 04-11-2003, 02:25 AM

i know i am. back in the day when gnome and kde were coming out i was trying them - they were okay, but really lacked the ability to be customized w/o a huge a amount of work. then there was balckbox which i liked but it was not as stable as the fvwm. at that point i figured - hey! i use linux - i can use what *I* want, i don't need no stinking popular opinion letting me know what to use!

**cga** · 05-07-2003, 11:35 PM

Well, that was fun. But I am back in KDE again. ;D

**pbharris** · 05-07-2003, 11:45 PM

i switched to kde - for about 5 minutes!!!

05-07-2003, 11:51 PM

[quote author=cga link=board=6;threadid=6770;start=0#64819 date=1052350510]
Well, that was fun. But I am back in KDE again. ;D
[/quote]

oh man here we go again....

Personally I've been changing from KDE to GNOME and back a few times - both have good qualities, and I tend to like GNOME the best as a user but KDE best as a coder - since I'm the sorta guy who thinks OO is the best thing since sliced bread.