FVWM95

FVWM95
Screenshot of FVWM95
Developer(s)	Luis Hector Peraza Gonzalez
Stable release	2.0.43f / May 3, 2003
Type	Window manager
License	GNU General Public License
Website	fvwm95.sourceforge.net

FVWM95 is a window manager for the X Window System based on the popular FVWM 2 window manager. It is similar to the original FVWM, but is designed to closely resemble the look of Windows 95.

FVWM95 was for a while a rather popular window manager; for example, Red Hat Linux 5.0 used it as the default. It is no longer as popular (nor is it well-maintained), but still in use. FVWM98 is a derivative of FVWM95 that is newer, and designed to look like Windows 98 instead of Windows 95.

Similar window managers include QVWM, IceWM and JWM.

Features [edit]

Windows 95-like appearance.
Taskbar for quick window switching.
Virtual desktop support.
Most features from FVWM 2 (may not include absolute latest bleeding-edge capabilities).

External links [edit]

Official website

Desktop environments and window managers for X11

Desktop Environments

Full-featured

Mid-range

Lightweight

GTK+	LXDE ROX Sugar

Qt	Hawaii Razor-qt

others	EDE (FLTK-based) Étoilé (GNUstep-based) Mezzo UDE

Shells

X Window Managers

Compositing	Compiz Metacity Mutter KWin Xfwm

Tiling	awesome dwm i3 PWM Ion wmii ratpoison xmonad

Stacking	Sawfish amiwm twm cwm mwm FVWM IceWM Enlightenment Blackbox Fluxbox Openbox Window Maker AfterStep PekWM

Wayland Compositors

Components

Related reading

v t e Window management topics

Methods	Tiling Stacking Dynamic Compositing Re-parenting

Tiling examples	awesome dwm i3 PWM Ion wmii ratpoison xmonad Xerox Star Windows 1.0 GEM (2.0 and later)

Stacking examples	amiwm twm cwm mwm FVWM Enlightenment Blackbox Presentation Manager Windows 2.0 Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows ME Windows NT (until Windows XP) Mac OS 9 and earlier GEM 1.1 WindowLab Xerox Alto

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Systems with WMs	Amiga OS Mac OS OS/2 Xerox PARC Xerox Alto Xerox Star Microsoft Windows Atari TOS RISC OS OpenVMS

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