FVWM-95 (2001)
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FVWM-95 (2001)
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#2"Page last updated: Nov 26, 2001."
That page even looks a tad dated for 2001!
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#3Beautiful. I miss the late 90s aesthetic of these window managers. KDE 2 was particularly nice. Motif was ugly, but I look at it fondly now.
This looks a little too Windows 95, but the dock is a nice reminder that it’s X Windows.
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#4I ran this at one time but it was a bit unstable. I remember corresponding with one of the authors who remarked that it was also attempting to emulate the stability of Windows 95. This was ... oh gawd ... back in 1997 or 1998 I think.
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#5“ The main distribution site has moved from mitac11.uia.ac.be to sourceforge.”
The last time I revisited one of these old X projects, I wound up wasting time with libraries that have been deprecated for a decade or more.
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#6This was a kludgey hack that never managed to land upstream, yet utterly dominated (for a brief moment) the headspace of the early linux desktop.
It's funny how quickly things were moving at the time. In the mid 90's, GUI design elements were still in their infancy. Even basic stuff like "what do windows do?" was in flux. Traditional X window managers hadn't settled on anything like a regular usage model: twm was still in regular use, fvwm mostly cloned its UI, Sun was still defaulting to OpenWindows which was pretty and clever but sort of an evolutionary dead end, and other commercial unixes were running Motif which was a lot like a monochrome Windows 3.1 that used too many pixels. Macs were still stuck in the only-one-foreground-app-is-enough model with System 7 and had nothing to offer.
Then Windows 95 landed like a bomb: there was a CLOSE button in the corner of the window finally! And there was a start menu and a little status bar! And that's what we all decided we wanted, really badly. So it got cloned and picked up pervasively. Basically everyone not already part of one of the X11 camps was running this.
But the window was small. KDE kicked off mere months later, Gnome followed quickly after that, and we all forgot about fvwm95. But we for sure all remember it.
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#7This was a kludgey hack that never managed to land upstream, yet utterly dominated (for a brief moment) the headspace of the early linux desktop. It's funny how quickly things were moving at the time. In the mid 90's, GUI design elements were still in their infancy. Even basic stuff like "what do windows do?" was in flux. Traditional X window managers hadn't settled on anything like a regular usage model: twm was sti…
It was actually NeXTSTEP that introduced the familiar "Windows 9x" 3D control appearance and close buttons on the top right. The first versions were released around '88.
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#8There's a nice theme for XFCE, Chicago95, that looks a lot like this as well and is quite good!
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#9That type of webpage style was quite common in the late 90s. Compare it to
I think the html editors of the time defaulted to some of style we now find quaint/quirky.
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#10That type of webpage style was quite common in the late 90s. Compare it to https://www.circlemud.org/ I think the html editors of the time defaulted to some of style we now find quaint/quirky.
Anything more complicated than this was just too difficult with the early HTML standards (there was no CSS).