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by robotiamsowhat 3410 days ago
> Sorry, I know HN doesn't like negativity

But it should, whenever negativity describes reality...

I use FVWM. I've been using it back in 1990ties. It worked. It works. It is invisible - I really don't require pah-nels and blinks, so I reduced it (editing config files in real editor, heh) to just virtual desktop, few useful shortcuts and some icons. For some sensory stuff I use gkrellm - it gives me a clock, too.

I was using Afterstep, Gnome (2? and 3?) and KDE. All started to fail after one upgrade or another. Unity is a bit too unbearable to me. Came back to FVWM, undusted old configs, all good now. About two months ago I replaced kdeterm with roxterm, which starts about two or three times faster. I guess I am mostly kde- and gnome- free at the moment.

I realize I am in some kind of diminishing minority. As long as I can recompile the source I am not going to complain (too much). Strange times. Who would have imagined I would start thinking of game against open source using older version of it?

BTW, if there are any FVWM devs here, thank you a lot. And please, I beg you on my knees - do not improve. But just in case, I will stash a source code somewhere.