FVWM
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FVWM (F Virtual Window Manager) is a stacking window manager for X11. It is designed to minimize memory consumption, provide a 3D look to window frames, and to provide a virtual desktop. It is also possible to extend FVWM using C, M4 and Perl preprocessing or scripts, in the case of Perl.
Installation
USE flags
USE flags for x11-wm/fvwm An extremely powerful ICCCM-compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager
+vanilla
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Do not add extra patches which change default behaviour; DO NOT USE THIS ON A GLOBAL SCALE as the severity of the meaning changes drastically |
bidi
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Enable bidirectional language support |
debug
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Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces |
doc
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Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally |
lock
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Enable screen locking |
netpbm
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Enable NetPBM support (used by FvwmScript-ScreenDump) |
nls
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Add Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities) |
perl
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Add optional support/bindings for the Perl language |
png
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Add support for libpng (PNG images) |
readline
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Enable support for libreadline, a GNU line-editing library that almost everyone wants |
stroke
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Mouse Gesture support |
svg
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Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) |
tk
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Add support for Tk GUI toolkit |
truetype
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Add support for FreeType and/or FreeType2 fonts |
xinerama
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Add support for querying multi-monitor screen geometry through the Xinerama API |
Note
* To be able to run Perl scripts in FVWM, enable the
* To be able to run Perl scripts in FVWM, enable the
perl and gtk2-perl USE flags.
- The
vanillaUSE flag is recommended to write to the fvwm-workers mailing list, see bug #411811, comment 14
Emerge
After flags have been set issue an emerge command to install FVWM:
root #emerge --ask x11-wm/fvwmConfiguration
FVWM's main configuration file is ~/.fvwm/config.
Starting
To start FVWM use a display manager or the startx command.
When using startx with elogind support, setup elogind and create the following file:
FILE
~/.xinitrcexec dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session fvwm
See also
- FVWM-Crystal — an easy to use, powerful and pretty desktop environment.