Then one day, like many FVWM-using gentoo’ers did, I stumbled across taviso‘s famous post at forums.fvwm.org. First impression: No iCandy? Forget it…

A little later, I saw some awesome screenshots at lynucs.org. Can’t find them now, but they whetted my appetite. I was soon working eagerly with different setups.

My first setup was a completely back-to-the-roots. It didn’t depend on big libraries, so it was fast, and didn’t crash for unexplainable reasons. If something was wrong, you could easily find out what. Oh, and it was, dare I say, good looking…

However, I spent too much time maintaining it, so I found some sort of compromise. My next setup included no fancy themes, and used “bigger” things like the panel from XFCE. This time, it was also fully keyboard driven. This is the one that has evolved to my current setup.

In the next couple of days, I will tell you some of the considerations I made during this period.