Thinking of switching to FVWM3

25 December 2024, 22:17:25

Greetings Everyone,

I have been thinking about switching from a combo of Openbox + Tint2 to FVWM 3, but before doing the "big jump" (with the help of the holidays) I was wondering if someone who is already using it could answer me some questions.

- How is FVWM3's multi-monitor support? Does it have any limitations or quirks I should know about?
- I saw I can substitute Tint2 with FVWM's buttons and by "swallowing" stalonetray, which seems really handy. I am used to have tint2 showing on all screens, would it be possible to do something like this with FVWM too?
- I tried maximizing windows on FVWM3 (default config) and they just resize to the full screen (obviously) but still stay "resizable", I couldn't find much about it in the documentation (which I could only read fragments of, due to things happening).

A word of note: I work from a laptop, so the number of screens is always changing, I have no idea if this could give issues with FVWM3.

FVWM3's customizability is really stimulating (united with the fact that, differently from OpenBox, it's still actively developed), but I'm still a bit on the line, if that makes sense, so I'm looking for some people's experiences.

Thank you everyone for the help in advance, and for listening (or in this case, reading) my ramblings.

Re: Thinking of switching to FVWM3

Reply #1 – 25 December 2024, 23:09:41

fvwm3 and stalonetray are in our repos and work nice and stable, and fvwm3 is extremely adaptable.
Working with multiple monitors is not a problem, though I never tried a dynamic setup for changes.
For the maximizing you might be able to turn off the decoration and set a shortcut to re-enable it, but you'd have to test that r search online.

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