[lug] another quasi-debian problem: fvwm

[Daniel Webb]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:57:31AM -0600, Bear Giles wrote:

> Another quasi-debian problem....
> 
> I made a minor upgrade of FVWM, from 2.4 to 2.5.
> 
> It totally blew off the old configuration information.  We're 
> talking "should have new major number" level of changes in the 
> configuration files.  Naturally there doesn't appear to be a 
> migration document in the Debian package.
> 
> How bad was it?  My 4x3 desktop went to 1x1.  I couldn't close 
> windows, or even minimize them, because all of the decorations 
> went away.  The sample configuration file was totally unusable - 
> maybe the author can read dark grey text on a black background, 
> but I can't.
> 
> I found some documentation and made a little progress (emphasis on 
> little), but it was soon clear that I could spend a day fixing 
> this mess.  For that much investment it's time to reevaluate other 
> window managers.

That's a shame, I was considering spending some time to check out fvwm, I've
read that "it is to KDE as Mutt is to Evolution", which for me is praise.  I
use a lot of older machines, and KDE is slow and bloated on them, although it
works fine aside from that.

I notice that the fvwm web page says 2.4.19 is the latest stable version, yet
Debian uses 2.5.12 in all their releases, including stable.