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Comment #46307015
fvwm95 was a fork of fvwm2 and has remained in that state, and never updated. It was created at a time when the theming in fvwm was not as flexible, but it's completely possible to…
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Comment #45439303
It's not the "difficulty" it's the fact that the technologies are completely different. See: https://gist.github.com/ThomasAdam/5377540b3025f7f04735d96ee...
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Comment #45391147
True -- but then, FvwmButtons was never meant to compete with systray stuff, the original spec came via EWMH for that. and didn't really affect FvwmButtons' raison d'être.
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Comment #44684051
I wouldn't have said this is anything new. FreeBSD has libxo[0] integrated into some of its tools: [0] https://github.com/Juniper/libxo
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Comment #28962719
There's still time for you to learn...
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Comment #28026496
Yes -- same with CPP as well. Fvwm2 allowed you to use the language features of M4/CPP to hold variables and to perform loops on different data, so you could generate complex confi…
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Comment #26344695
There's nothing stopping you using FVWM or XFCE on newer hardware either.
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Comment #24426580
You'd be surprised at just how popular this is still. I think people appreciate the flexibility, even if that means things being on their terms. Plenty of applications still operat…