FVWM
Sign in to saveThe F Virtual Window Manager (FVWM) is a virtual window manager for the X Window System. Originally a twm derivative, FVWM is now a window manager for Unix-like systems.
Key facts
- Software.name
- FVWM
- Software.screenshot
- frameless
- Software.caption
- Customized FVWM desktop
- Software.developer
- Robert Nation
- Software.programming language
- C, Perl, Unix Shell
- Software.operating_system
- Unix-like
- Software.genre
- Window manager
- Software.license
- GNU GPL v2,FVWM included in OpenBSD: BSD License
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The F Virtual Window Manager (FVWM) is a virtual window manager for the X Window System. Originally a twm derivative, FVWM is now a window manager for Unix-like systems.
==History== thumb|FVWM running on SUSE Linux|SUSE 5.1 thumb|FVWM 1.24, an old version from the 1.x series In 1993, during his work analyzing acoustic signatures for the United States Department of Defense, Robert Nation began hacking twm with the intent of simultaneously reducing memory usage and adding support for virtual desktops.