Showing posts with label linux fvwm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label linux fvwm. Show all posts

Monday, August 10, 2009

iconifying all windows in fvwm

I added these lines in the end of Startup file of fvwm-crystal (~/.fvwm-crystal/preferences/Startup). These iconify all windows except the fvwm and desktop ones. delay is in milli-seconds.

#to iconify all windows except fvwm and the desktop ones
Schedule 10000 All ("*", !"Fvwm*|panel|gdeskcal") Iconify

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

my fvwm window manager

basically it is fvwm2.
to quote from fvwm website the expansion of fvwm is
"Fill_in_the_blank_with_whatever_f_word_you_like_at_the_time
Virtual Window Manager". Rob Nation (the original Author of fvwm)
doesn't really remember what the F stood for originally,
Isn't that quite geeky/nerdy. I in particular use fvwm-crystal bindings which gives me the most useful keyboard shortcuts (almost everything that i need normally) with a very fast response in comparison with gnome/kde (its my opinion) and a very small memory footprint which in normal language translates to light weight window manager.
The only thing that i have changed is the keyboard bindings for meta key which was previously alt key and now on mine it is Super key. Though me laptop has only one Super key. the change is quite simple in /usr/share/local/fvwm/components/functions/Keyboard-modifiers. Though there is no need to do so, still I m telling that below is the screenshot of my computer.