Other FVWM-related sites

Here are some other sites (besides the official one) that have FVWM info:

• The FVWM Wiki Pages are a shared collection of FVWM related stuff.
• The FVWM Forum is going to be a sorted collection of user questions and answers.

Window Decors and Other Configuration Tips

• Glen Lee Edward's Screen shots and config files page ("FVWM - Do it your way!") - illustrates FVWM's flexibility with configuration information and, of course, the obligatory screenshots.
• Suzanne Skinner's FVWM site - Stylish screenshots (and config files) from the author of the MultiPixmap titlebar feature. Don't miss her thoughtful and entertaining essay "My Quest For The Perfect Window Manager". (The hobbit in us would like to subtitle it "There and Back Again".)
• Dorothy Robinson's FVWM 2.6 Decors - an impressive collection of window decors showing off FVWM 2.6's visual versatility. All the config files are downloadable. There is also a collection of decors that can be used with 2.4.
• FVWM site from Andrew Dolgov - Nice screenshots, window decorations, configuration files and shell scripts.
• FVWM Beginners Guide - Good to read when you start with FVWM

Themes

You say you're into desktop themes? Then one of these sites should be your next stop:

• The Official FVWM Themes Home Page - highly recommended for novice users. FVWM Themes provides a powerful gui-driven theme engine and a wide variety of preconfigured themes so you can get started without having to learn anything about FVWM configuration commands. If the supplied themes don't suit you, you can create your own, or mix and match components from the existing ones.
  The site also has links to other theme related sites.
• The Window Manager Icons Project - an efficient icon distribution to use with fvwm and fvwm-themes.
• FVWM Decorations - Some screenshots and config files

Add-ons

And here are some sites featuring programs that are designed to work with or enhance FVWM:

• Extended WM Hints for fvwm 2.4 - Enables integration with KDE2, GTK+2 and the future GNOME2 (this support has been integrated by the author into the FVWM 2.6 core)
• The Dotfile Generator Home Page - A program that helps you generate .emacs, .cshrc, .fvwmrc, etc. config files (pretty old)

Other Window Managers

Here are some window managers that were originally created from fvwm source, but please don't ask questions about them on the FVWM lists! Rather, contact the parties responsible for them directly:

• SCWM - The Scheme Configurable Window Manager
• AfterStep - A window manager that emulates the famous NEXTSTEP^® look and feel, AfterStep took up where Bo Yang's Bowman (no longer available) left off.
• FVWM-95 - An old hack of fvwm-2.0.42 that looks more like (shudder) Win95.
• Lesstif's MWM - Intended to simulate a Motif-like window manager. Abandoned in 1997.
• XFwm - A part of the XFce desktop enviroment.

Matt Chapman's excellent survey of window managers present and past (from the famous to the downright obscure) should be required reading for anyone choosing a window manager (or trying to write one).

• Window Managers for X
  

General Resources

Don't forget about Newsgroups:

• comp.windows.x.apps - for discussing and announcing apps like FVWM. (Questions about FVWM are best asked by sending mail to fvwm@fvwm.org.)
• comp.windows.x - for general X11 discussions and advice.

Finally, if you want to know why FVWM does some of the things it does (or if you just want to see if we're really behaving properly!), you can peruse the online version of the ICCCM:

• Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual

Miscellaneous

• FVWM freshmeat page - New stable releases are announced on freshmeat.