1 Welcome to FVWM version 2.5.x FVWM is a multiple large virtual desktop
2 window manager, originally (a looooong time ago!) derived from twm.
4 FVWM is intended to have a small memory footprint but a rich feature
5 set, be extremely customizable and extendible, and have a high degree of
6 Motif mwm compatibility.
8 For users of the old FVWM 1.xx, please be aware that version 2.2 has a
11 For users of the FVWM 2.0.x betas, please be aware that version 2.2 uses
12 GNU autoconf/automake rather than Imake, so things will install in
13 different places by default.
15 For users of the FVWM 2.2.x, please read the files ANNOUNCE and NEWS to
16 figure out all changes and new features in this release.
18 FVWM's original author, Rob Nation (THANKS ROB!), has "retired" from
19 work on it, so please don't bother him with silly little things like bug
20 reports or enhancement requests. Care and feeding of FVWM is now
21 handled by a group of people on the fvwm-workers mailing list, with many
22 contributions by fans everywhere.
24 If you have any questions, concerns, bug reports, enhancement requests,
25 etc., please read the files in the docs/ subdirectory first. In
26 particular the FAQ, BUGS, and TODO lists. Also, check the FVWM man page
27 carefully. Next, try the FVWM mailing list. Another excellent resource
28 is the official WWW page http://www.fvwm.org and the mailing list archives
31 For information on compiling and installing FVWM, see the INSTALL and
32 INSTALL.fvwm files (INSTALL is the boilerplate autoconf instruction
33 file; INSTALL.fvwm contains FVWM-specific details).
35 Generally, you should run:
37 ./configure # for full list of options, run: ./configure --help
39 make install # as a user with proper file system permissions
41 It is very important to make the last step (make install) to ensure that
44 For known bugs, check out the BUGS, FAQ and TODO files.