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Introduction

"The Next Level" is a combination of many diverse improvements resulting in a highly functional, attractive, and usable desktop configuration.

Overview

"The Next Level" includes:

FVWM Configuration Highlights

Guiding Principles


Using this Help System

Throughout this document, keystrokes and mouse actions have graphical depictions of the various buttons pressed. I think that chorded keystrokes (eg. CTRL-ALT-SHIFT) are hard for users to read, and are not very good "at-a-glance" memory aids, so I developed these mini GIFs which represent the lower left portion of your keyboard. The picture may be followed by an all-capitals word, signifying an extra keystroke to hit. For example CS - RETURN means to press and hold the Control and Shift keys, then strike RETURN. Similarly CSA - Mouse 2 means to press and hold the Control, Shift, and Alt keys (Alt might be your Meta key, depending on your keymap), then press Mouse button 2 (or press both mouse buttons 1 and 2, if you're using a two button mouse with XFree86's "chorded" middle mouse button).

In general, key bindings are chosen that have some logical relationship to the operation they perform, and hopefully "feel" good. Notice that CSA - Mouse 2, the action for the window move operation, involves lots of fingers, like grabbing the window with your two hands. Other action/operation mappings are hopefully meaningful, as well.

Some keyboards have the Control key in different places, but it is often directly above or directly below the Shift key, swapping with Caps-Lock. If your Control key appears below (lower than) your Shift key on your keyboard, you should use this help document.


Warnings

FVWM Version 2 is still beta software. Thus, it is a work in progress, and dealing with bugs comes with the territory. You should be sure to report any new bugs you find, and keep checking for new versions of FVWM2, and of this configuration.

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Greg J. Badros / Duke University / gjb@cs.duke.edu