Gimme that old time interface...

mike ledoux mwl+gnhlug at alumni.unh.edu
Thu Nov 15 14:17:36 EST 2007


On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:53:48AM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2007 10:27 AM, TARogue <tom at tarogue.net> wrote:
> > The problem with most of those is that they are FVWM2, which is nothing
> > at all like regular FVWM.
> 
>   The config file syntax was heavily modified in FVWM version 2.x, no
> question.  For the better, I think, but it's certainly a pain to
> migrate a config one has carefully built over time.  But "nothing at
> all like" FVWM 1.x?  I have to beg to differ on that.

I, too, use FVWM, not FVWM2.  IME, FVWM2 is more resource-intensive
than FVWM, for comparable configurations.  That was enough to keep
me from migrating years ago, and now I'm just lazy.

> > I had to restore my laptop to Fedora Core 3, since upgrading to 7
> > also upgraded FVWM to FVWM2.
> 
>   ...?  I'm pretty sure FVWM 1.x still compiles on recent distros.

It will, but it is a minor pain to do.  I've had to write several
minor patches to work with modern libraries.  The "big" problem is
that some idiot renamed the 'fvwm2' packages to 'fvwm' in FC5 or 6,
so if you do a 'yum update' it breaks your window manager until you
figure out what went wrong.  I've since made an 'fvwm1' package that
will happily coexist with fvwm2 on a modern FC system:

  http://www.volta.dyndns.org/~mwl/fvwm1-1.24r-24.src.rpm

Works for me.  Standard disclaimer applies.

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