Adam L Rice <wysiwyg_at_glympton.airtime.co.uk> writes:
> Quoting John R. Smith (jrsmith_at_eng.utah.edu):
> > Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs_at_math.uh.edu> wrote:
> >
> > -> I believe that all of the functionality of what was Fvwm95 is available
> in
> > -> Fvwm (although if the look is all you're after, you may have to do a bit
> of
> > -> configuration).
> >
> > Awesome! Does anyone have .fvwmrc files that give a 95/98/NT look?
>
> On the other hand, if Windows 95 look is all you're after, you might be
> better off with qvwm, which implements Win 95 look and feel without all of
> fvwm's flexibility and other features. As a result, it's much slimmer and
> faster (I use it as the default window manager for the rest of my family).
> While it doesn't have the advanced colour-limiting features of recent
> versions of fvwm, you should be able to make it colourmap-friendly by using
> a carefully chosen set of pixmaps that all use the same palette.
>
> I don't have a URL for qvwm offhand, but you should be able to find it with
> a search on Freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net) or, failing that, FTPSearch
> (http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no/).
>
> Apologies to everyone for advocating another window manager on the fvwm
> mailing list, but I believe in the right tool for the job, and qvwm is very
> impressive.
Hows this for impressive?
On the fvwm mailing list, we answer questions, and have advertisements
for competing window managers. First fvwm95 and now qvwm.
I may have a biased viewpoint, but I don't agree that "using a
carefully chosen set of pixmaps that all use the same palette" is a
viable alternative. I'm not saying it couldn't work in theory. I
just wouldn't recommend it in light of fvwm2's colorlimiting
alternative.
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> Adam Rice -- wysiwyg_at_glympton.airtime.co.uk -- Blackburn, Lancashire, England
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Received on Sun Feb 14 1999 - 08:48:35 GMT