Subject: What is fvwm-95 and where can it be found

From: Jim Worthington <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 00:04:21 -0400

What is fvwm-95 and where can it be found?  From the name, it sounds
like it might emulate the Windows95 four button window format.  Is this
the case?  

Where is fvwm-95 located and what is it's developmental status.

I prefer the windows 95 window format over most of the X manager formats
that I have tried.  I particularly like the dedicated exit button.  I'm
currently running fvwm-2.

Jim  <[email-masked]>

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From: Glenn Bily <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 01:11:15 -0400 (EDT)

Jim,

Fvwm-95 is a X window manager that mimics Window 95 interface.

It can be found at:

http://ltiwww.epfl.ch/~barth/fvwm95.html

Excerpts from mail: 3-Sep-96 What is fvwm-95 and where c.. Jim
Worthington@worldnet (430*)

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From: Juha Ylitalo <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 09:50:00 +0300 (EETDST)

> like it might emulate the Windows95 four button window format.  Is this

Yes, its bit modified fvwm2. All modifications have been done towards
Windows '95 appearance. fvwm2 usually name taskbar as only improvement,
but there is also one new focusing mode, fvwm menus stay active bit longer
and there are those four buttons on each window title.

> Where is fvwm-95 located and what is it's developmental status.

http://ltiwww.epfl.ch/~barth/fvwm95.html is their official WWW page.
Considering debian, situation is currently such that someone is creating
package about it, but it hasn't yet reached unstable level (or just
haven't been mirrored to the sites that I check). However it seems to be
reasonably easy to compile, if you don't mind doing some minor work for
it.

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