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FVWM-Crystal
http://fvwm-crystal.berlios.de/
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FVWM-Crystal aims to create an easy to use, powerful desktop environment for
Linux or other Unix-like operating systems with lots of eye-candy.
It uses following programs: FVWM as a window manager and "main core", ROX-Filer
or Nautilus as desktop manager (manages icons on the desktop), gnome-terminal,
xterm, aterm, mrxvt or urxvt as terminal emulators, MPD, QuodLibet or XMMS as
music players (there's built-in support for controlling these programs), and
several other tools for different functions, like setting a wallpaper or making
screenshots.
Key features
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- Transparent elements of the interface: panels, menus, dialogs
(pseudo-transparency, doesn't show windows underneath).
- Window decorations, panel/menu color-sets and desktop wallpaper changeable
from the main menu; choice saved for next X sessions.
- Flexible window decorations: can have different title-bar buttons layout,
pixmaps and button functions.
- Different "recipes" (panel placement and functions, desktop
functions, window icons/thumbnails), changeable from the menu.
- Advanced keyboard support: key-bindings for controlling the desktop
switching, window management (moving, resizing, focusing, basic operations
like minimization or closing) - in total there are nearly 90 different
key-bindings.
- Support for controlling music players by using the keyboard or panel buttons
and menus; currently MPD, XMMS, XMMS2 and Quodlibet are supported.
- Advanced support of the terminal windows: special "Quake Console" terminal
accessible by an Alt+` (grave) keystroke similar to the console found in FPP
games; terminals can be opened using RMB on the desktop; terminal windows
don't release focus for newly opened windows (by default).
- A Python script for generating different panels and menus with installed
applications - automatically finds programs in $PATH and creates specified
menus and panels.
- Support for nearly 400 different applications - icons, menu/panel database
entries and window styles.
- Localization support using gettext.
Advanced features
-----------------
- All FVWM configuration is divided into small files in a simple directory
structure.
- Special functions for loading configuration files – allows for FVWM
configuration files placed in different directories (for example system-wide
and user-wide); user files are searched before system-wide files (directory
structure must be preserved), the first found file is loaded.
- Simple and easy to use system of "user preferences" which adds to the
configuration files' ability to remember different user choices and recall
them at any moment, usually at the startup of X session.
- Support for system-wide configuration in /etc/X11/fvwm/fvwm-crystal directory
as well as user configuration in ~/.fvwm directory - changes in configuration
files can be preserved between package updates.
- Special files called "recipes" - similar to "standard" FVWM configuration
model (one configuration - one file), allows for different configurations in
the same package (for example different music players changeable during
runtime).
- Support for different icon themes and sizes (similar to /usr/share/icons
directory), included are many icons in 22x22, 32x32 and 48x48 sizes.
Requirements
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- FVWM - version 2.5.13 or higher.
- Python - for some scripts.
- ImageMagick - import and convert are used for screenshots.
- ROX-Filer or Nautilus - for icons on the desktop and wallpaper.
- XScreenSaver - a screen saver and/or screen locking.
- Trayer - a systray (notification icon area).
- Sudo and optionally gksudo configured for running text/graphical
applications as superuser and reboot/shutdown computer options in the menu.
- Terminal Emulator: gnome-terminal, konsole, xfce4-terminal, xterm, aterm,
Eterm, mrxvt or urxvt.
- A program for setting a wallpaper such as Esetroot, hsetroot or habak (only
needed if ROX-Filer or Nautilus are not used as suggested above.
- A music player - Music Player Daemon (+ mpc), X MultiMedia System (+
xmms-shell and XMMSFind), XMMS2, Quod Libet or cdcd.
Contacting author
-----------------
The author and current maintainer of FVWM-Crystal project is Maciej
Delmanowski. You can contact with him using:
Jabber (preferred): harnir@jabberek.net
Email: harnir@berlios.de
IRC: #fvwm-crystal@irc.freenode.net (also on #fvwm)
There is also a low-traffic mailing list, where you can talk with other
FVWM-Crystal users. More information and subscription instructions can be
found on: http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/fvwm-crystal-users
You can also look at the archives located here:
http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fvwm-crystal-users/
Thanks
------
I would like to thank all these people for help with this project (in random
order): Aragorn_Vime, Lucass, Taviso, Hoppke, Ravbc, Myles Green, Esack,
theBlackDragon, Thomas_Adam, Liorithiel, MadCow, LiNiO, fEnIo, KHorne, QsoRiX,
niv, stR4y and all others which I can't recollect now - thanks, guys :)
Donations
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FVWM-Crystal is and always will be a free software, however if you want, you
can make a donation - I probably will spent it on my electricity & telephone
bills... Anyway, below is the neccesary info to do that.
Account: PL 90 1140 2004 0000 3102 3664 7363
Name: Maciej Delmanowski
Bank: mBank
Address: 90-050 Lodz, Al. Mickiewicza 1, Poland
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