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FVWM - Virtual desktop window manager

FVWM is a multiple large virtual desktop window manager originally derived from twm. FVWM is intended to have a small memory footprint and a rich feature set, be extremely customizable and extendable and have a high degree of Motif mwm compatibility. FVWM is highly extensible through its module interface.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.fvwm.org/
Source tarballftp://ftp.fvwm.org/pub/fvwm/version-2/fvwm-2.4.18.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://www.fvwm.org/download/
Version 2.4.18 (stable) released on 2004-03-24
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User manpages available in HTML format from http://www.fvwm.org/documentation/manpages/; User FAQ included in the distribution
Support contacts

Announce List<fvwm-announce@fvwm.org> http://www.fvwm.org/contact/
Help List<fvwm@fvwm.org> http://www.fvwm.org/contact/
Developer List<fvwm@fvwm.org> http://www.fvwm.org/contact/
Bug Databasehttp://www.fvwm.org/cgi-bin/fvwm-bug

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors
  • Robert Nation
  • Charles Hines
  • Brady Montz
  • See the AUTHORS file in the distribution for a complete list

Related information

Source repository:pserver:anonymous@cvs.fvwm.org:/home/cvs/fvwm login password: guest http://www.fvwm.org/documentation/dev_cvs.php
InterfacesX Window System
Source languagesC, Perl
Build prerequisitesautoconf 2.13 or later, automake 1.4 or later

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-12-17
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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