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sk8harddiefast
May 27th, 2010, 00:16
fvwm
fvwm2
fvwm-crystal

What is the difference?
fender0107401
May 27th, 2010, 05:28
cat pkg-descr
graudeejs
May 27th, 2010, 05:59
fvwm - ancien (artefact, i'd say)
fvwm2 - old (stable. 2.4)
fvwm-crystal modification of fvwm (probably 2.4, i dunno) [looks beautiful by default, AFAIK]
fvwm2-devel - new (unstable, however it's very stable, 2.5)
sk8harddiefast
May 27th, 2010, 06:21
I am thinking to try fvwm.
The only gui wm i used was xfce and gnome (when i start unix)
I use dwm so much time and is difficult to me to make the step for something new.
But i saw this 3 screenshots:

http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/Pierre-Eric_Marchandet-1600x1200/screenshot.jpg
http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/Nuno_Alexandre-1600x1200/screenshot.jpg
http://omploader.org/vMzhhMQ

and i really am thinking to make a try.
But i don't know what is the right fvwm to download in case i change wm
graudeejs
May 27th, 2010, 06:30
I suggest x11-wm/fvwm2-devel I use it for years

Por pems theme (the blue, cloudy one) fvwm2 might be better than fvwm2-devel (but that's my guess)

I must say, that you wont have it exactly as you see, even if you have entire config, because they (at least http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/Nuno_Alexandre-1600x1200/screenshot.jpg use patched fvwm2, and these patches can't be found [or it's very had to find and patch it + they are unmaintained)
sk8harddiefast
May 27th, 2010, 13:39
What is patch exactly on a wm?Then i will download fvwm2.Your opinion is to try it?
Also is like fluxbox or like xfce?
graudeejs
May 27th, 2010, 14:49
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_(computing)

by default, it looks like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FVWM

after months of reading manuals, and wring you config, you can make it look and behave almost like anything else.
sk8harddiefast
May 27th, 2010, 14:55
The only thing i stack is because i love full terminals and dwm because if you don't know key combinations you cannot do completely nothing!
The stupid thing on me is that when i have gui environment, i want something more terminal and when i have terminal, i want something more graphical.
With simple words i don't know what i want :PP
PhenomII
June 8th, 2010, 14:00
The stupid thing on me is that when i have gui environment, i want something more terminal
CTRL+ALT+F2
and when i have terminal, i want something more graphical.
CRTL+ALT+F9

Works for me. ;)
SirDice
June 8th, 2010, 14:03
Gnome-terminal, Terminal or even xterm works for me :e