FVWM-Crystal
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Stable release | 3.6.7
/ October 7, 2020[1] |
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Written in | Python, Unix shell |
Operating system | Unix-like |
Type | A Configuration, a theme, fitting to the FVWM window manager, if augmented by further adds, altogether forming a 'construction kit' for building up a desktop environment |
License | GNU General Public License 3+ |
Website | fvwm-crystal |
FVWM-Crystal is a theme framework for the FVWM window manager. It uses GUI tools to edit the look of windows, instead of the use of editing a text file in FVWM. It creates a desktop environment using FVWM as its window manager and main core.
It features flexible window decorations, and a file manager may be optionally used to display desktop icons; ROX-Filer, Thunar and Nautilus are supported for this task. FVWM-Crystal offers user interface integration for some terminal emulators like xterm, and urxvt (rxvt-unicode), for a tray system such as or , for various music players - among them Audacious, MPD, Quod Libet, XMMS and XMMS2 - and for the video/audio player MPlayer, to the point where it can control these components. FVWM-Crystal makes use of semi-transparency. Almost everything on the default desktop is semi-transparent. By additionally installing a utility program such as the semi-transparency can be switched on or off via pressing a determined key of the keyboard, being chosen in accordance with user's demands.
There is also a menu system that has an extensive default configuration but may be customized and extended by each user to fit personal requirements.
The deep-level configuration of the resulting desktop environment is predominantly achieved via Python scripts.
Chief developers of FVWM-Crystal are Maciej Delmanowski and Dominique Michel.
References[]
- ^ "FVWM-Crystal / [Fvwm-crystal-users] fvwm-crystal-3.6.7 is out". 7 October 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2020 – via SourceForge.
External links[]
- Free desktop environments