Description: This project aims to be a lightweight but feature rich and good looking configuration of Fvwm. It contains many useful things to make work and life easier with a flavour of a modern desktop. But it can be configure by your own. It is good documented and shows you what is possible with this powerful window manager.
Features: - Works with FVWM 2.6.5 without loosing new Xdg menu support from CVS version. - Own user configuration directory ~/.fvwm-nightshade (can be used parallel to an existing Fvwm configuration). - Own entry "Fvwm-Nightshade" in graphical login managers - Config tool for base settings (Font, layouts, etc). - 4 virtual desktop pages. - Taskbar to show running apps per page. - Three different layouts: Horizontal, Vertical and G2like. - Lock desk & screensaver (xscreensaver). - Personal menu via FvwmScript-PersonalMenu. - Background configurable with thumb browser (imagemagick and feh). - Animation control of window moves. - Simple "Run" command with FvwmForm. - 6 themes/decors (Clean, Ambience, Tribal, CrystalBall, FlatTab and Air). Can be changed on the fly without restart. - Own themes and layouts can be created with templates. - Autostart possibility (starting apps while startup). - A useful set of GUI tools to configure the global system (Gtk+, Qt, mouse, keyboard, etc). - Help messages for mouse bindings in titlebar, window, corners, sides and icons. - Help messages for key bindings. - Dynamic menus. - Switching focus between windows with Alt / Shift-Alt-Tab. - Splash screen. - Governor-tool FvwmScript-CPU-Performance to handle cpufreq - Create thumbs with mini icon and name for iconified applications instead of their icons. - Build support for deb, rpm, Arch and Gentoo packages. - Support for local installation without root rights. - Localization support for German, French and Spanish. - Feature 'smart maximize' - moves and resizes a current window to the largest free area of a desktop/page. - Own set of icons for menus and internal apps. - Own XDG applications menu. - Revised fvwm-menu-desktop GUI with help windows. - *New* Support for hald, upower and systemd for Suspend and Hibernate.Last changelog:
Version 0.6.9: Bugfix Release (the last for 0.6). - Update fvwm-menu-desktop2, FvwmForm-MultiMenuHelp2 and their French and Spanish translation to last upstream changes. - Fix colorset bug in Air, Ambience and Tribal which ends up in an empty FvwmIdent (thanks for the patches from bstrik :-) ). - Fix bug in fns-start-programs that comments (with # infront) creating errors - Add CTRL + left Windows key anywhere to open Desktop menu. - Fix bugs in FuncWriteInfoStoreToFileAndSet and FuncWriteSetEnvToFileAndSet that strings with space get cut and therefore .settings get corrupted. - Exchange blutooth-applet with bluemon-applet because it doesn't exist in Gnome3 anymore. - Add support for hald, upower and systemd to FuncSuspend/FuncHibernate
Version 0.6.8: Bugfix and Enhancement Release. - Works now with FVWM 2.6.5 without loosing new Xdg menu support from CVS version. - Own XDG applications menu with their own directory files. - Revised fvwm-menu-desktop GUI with help windows for each configuration section. - Feature 'smart maximize' - moves and resizes a current window to the largest free area of a desktop/page. - Set of new icons for menus and internal apps to remove wm-icons dependency. - Support for Gentoo installation. - Right click menu for Conky clock and CPU applet in panel to restart them on error.
Version 0.6.7: Bugfix and Enhancement Release. - Enhanced uninstall routine for generic installation - an install list will be created, so keeping the sources of the installed version never needed anymore. - It is now possible to install Fvwm-Nightshade locally if the user hasn't root rights. Good for testing. ^^ - Also an installation without the login file can be done if no display-manger is available. - We have exchanged Esetroot with feh because of the poor availability of eterm package in different distribution repositories.
Version 0.6.6: Bugfix Release with 2 nice improvements. Now the application menu settings are set by default because it was not easy to know what must set to get the menus available in the Root menu. Also the annoying flipping of the Global Iconman is fixed now.
Version 0.6.5: - Add localization support for German, French and Spanish - Add Tab cycling in both directions with Alt-Tab (forward) and Alt-Shift-Tab (backwards) - Prepare Python scripts to work with Python 2 and 3 - Many Bugfixes
Thanks for this amazing theme (or better, environment) is so fast, easy to use, and beautiful that I tried it out in Manjaro openrc (my second linux) and I liked it so much that now is installed even in my main system with Slackware. Thanks again and congrats for this excellent work.
Thank you very much! I'm pleased that you like it :-)
FNS is still under heavy development and in one month or so a new major release will be upcoming.
Have a look at https://github.com/Fvwm-Nightshade/Fvwm-Nightshade/blob/develop/NEWS for the current development status.
Best,
TF
The F Virtual Window Manager is a virtual window manager for the X Window System. Originally a twm derivative, FVWM has evolved into a powerful and highly configurable environment for Unix-like systems. Wikipedia
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Thanks for this amazing theme (or better, environment) is so fast, easy to use, and beautiful that I tried it out in Manjaro openrc (my second linux) and I liked it so much that now is installed even in my main system with Slackware. Thanks again and congrats for this excellent work.
Thank you very much! I'm pleased that you like it :-) FNS is still under heavy development and in one month or so a new major release will be upcoming. Have a look at https://github.com/Fvwm-Nightshade/Fvwm-Nightshade/blob/develop/NEWS for the current development status. Best, TF
Ok. Thank you. I'll be waiting for it. Regards.-