FVWM-Crystal aims to create an easy to use, pretty, and powerful desktop environment for Linux or other Unix-like operating systems. It uses following programs: FVWM as a window manager and "main core", ROX-Filer as file manager (manages icons on the desktop), xterm, aterm, mrxvt, or urxvt as terminal emulators, MPD or XMMS as music players, and several other tools for different functions, like setting a wallpaper or making screen shots.
| Tags | Desktop Environment Window Manager FVWM Tutorials |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | Other Python Unix Shell |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release fixes a very critical bug on POSIX systems. Every user is encouraged to upgrade. A utility to update the environment variables into the user configurations was added. A few minor issues were fixed. All the ASCII files are encoded using UTF-8. bin/fvwm-crystal uses the new and now old fvwm2 executable name: fvwm.


Release Notes: New recipes, support for new applications, and many bugfixes and improvements. It's a "development" release, so there may be some bugs or unfinished translations.


Release Notes: A new package was added, which has a stripped down version of FVWM-Crystal that is suitable for live CD distributions. There are also new recipes, new clock scripts, and some other enhancements.


Release Notes: This release adds support for the Debian menu, changes the Makefile and startup script, and adds documentation.


Release Notes: File permissions were fixed. Problems with the installation procedure were fixed. Syntax highlighting for the Vim editor was added.