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another reason fvwm2 rules
I'm a devout fvwm2 user. My desktop is ugly and plain, but it's completely useable.
For example (from my .fvwm2rc):
# shift- to move a few pixels
Key Left A S CursorMove -1 +0
Key Right A S CursorMove +1 +0
Key Up A S CursorMove +0 -1
Key Down A S CursorMove +0 +1
# shift-meta- to move 1/4 page
Key Left A SM Scroll -5 +0
Key Right A SM Scroll +5 +0
Key Up A SM Scroll +0 -5
Key Down A SM Scroll +0 +5
# shift-control- to move a full page
Key Left A SC Scroll -50 +0
Key Right A SC Scroll +50 +0
Key Up A SC Scroll +0 -100
Key Down A SC Scroll +0 +100
So I can hit shift-<up|down|left|right> to move my cursor around the screen, thereby shifting focus (sloppy focus goes without saying, and anyone who doesn't like it needs a trip to the Ministry of Love). I can do basically everything without taking my hands off the home row—no time wasted moving my hand to the mouse. (Note that the reason that ctrl-shift-<left|right> only moves 50% in the x-direction is because I have a double-wide screen thanks to my dual-headed setup. A virtual screen fills both of them, but by moving over 50% I can straddle two adjacent ones.)
I think fvwm2's slogan should be something like
fvwm2: finally GUIs don't suck
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ez17yroldgrrl wrote
dear repak,
is your name really repak shawahb? that sounds sooo romantic.
repak sounds middle eastern. are you a towel-head? my
daddy said the towel-heads murdered my brother.
thats okay i love you anyway schwahbie baby.
will you sweep me off my feet with your mastery of the
*X-WINDOWS-SYSTEM*? swoon. swoon.
jim wrote
click to focus
For walltop.foo, I had trouble finding a window manager that would always have click-to-focus, focus-newest-windows, and colormap-follows-focus. That last one is particularly uncommon, it seems. For my own use, openbox is the only window manager I've found that supports both GNOME and Xinerama with differently-sized displays. Anyway, all window managers suck, but FVWM sucks the most.
jim wrote
By the way, your "save my name and url/email for next time" thing has never worked.
repak wrote
re: saving name/email
Good. Cookies suck my balls. It's only there because it was in the template and I'm lazy; I'm gonna take it out.
gwax wrote
Personally, I've always been a big fan of 9wm; mainly because it's the least obtrusive window manager that I've ever encountered. If you want virtual desktops, w9wm is also good. Of course, 9wm is hardly customizable at all and you can't do it all by keyboard, so it's probably not your cup of tea.
J.W. Holloway wrote
Friggin' title bars...
can kiss my bright white ass. Try ion. Full desktop space utilization.
repak wrote
I've revised my .fvwm2rc such that my title bars are only as high as one line of 12pt font. Not too obtrusive at all.
-repak
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