Fvwm Configs

Configs

A number of people have expressed interest in my Fvwm configuration. Here are a few snapshots:

(Lots more screenshots, past and present, are available on my Quest For The Perfect Window Manager page.)

My setup is somewhat complex. It depends not just on .fvwm2rc, but on various Perl programs I've developed.

my .fvwm2rc file. You'll notice calls to all of the below programs, usually via PipeRead, the all-powerful Fvwm command which reads stdout from a program and executes it as Fvwm commands.
fvwm-desktop manages my applications and builds the root menu.
fvwm-theme allows dynamic switching of desktop wallpaper and window decorations. The linked page contains the script as well as a collection of window decoration themes for it.
tunez (not here currently, maybe someday!) is an MP3 jukebox that hooks into the Fvwm menu system.

Do keep in mind that I didn't really design any of this for public consumption--also, I haven't kept up with recent releases of Fvwm (I'm still running 2.5.12.), so it's possible a recent release could have broken something. With that in mind, you're welcome to download my config and experiment with it.

The dockapps running in the above screenshots:

bubblemon is perhaps the cutest and cleverest dockapp ever conceived. Bubbles indicate processor activity, water level shows memory usage, and if you hover the mouse, the scene fades into a load graph. Run out of memory and go into heavy swap, and the water turns red. Being a geek with too much time on my hands, I actually wrote a malloc-forever program to see if it worked. It worked. (So did the OOM-killer :-)

Here are some miscellaneous theming aspects which are not elsewhere covered:

Digital Blasphemy is where I get many of my rendered wallpapers. Buy a membership--it's worth it!
VladStudio has some neat stylized wallpapers, many with a new-age theme.
Menu Marble Background
Menu Sidebar Image
Various Wood Backgrounds
I make liberal use of the Microsoft core fonts (Arial, Verdana, etc.) in my themes and menus. You can fetch them from the corefonts project.
The artwiz fonts work well for titlebars (in particular, "Snap" is used in several of my window decoration themes).
I use "Bright" from the Linux Font Project for terminals.
I use the qn-x11 GTK+ theme.

Unanswered questions? Mail me.