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Lite Linux Window Managers: Three Choices

fvwm Of the three, fvwm looks most like a ‘normal’ window manager. It’s pretty basic, though. When you start it up for the first tine, there’s no desktop decoration at all. No menu bar, no docking bay; the only thing you can do is to click on the desktop, which fires up a basic menu. […]

May 13, 2010
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fvwm

Of the three, fvwm looks most like a
‘normal’ window manager. It’s pretty basic, though. When you start it up for
the first tine, there’s no desktop decoration at all. No menu bar, no docking
bay; the only thing you can do is to click on the desktop, which fires up a
basic menu.

However, one of the options on the menu allows you to create your own
configuration file. The form (which isn’t wildly user-friendly) allows you to
set up modules which will provide some desktop furniture (a pager and icon
manager, for example). Graphically, though, the modules are pretty horrible
– I’d rather just stick with no desktop furniture at all and just use
the menu.

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