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Stable fvwm-themes-0.6.2 is released.

The latest fvwm-2.5.x developement versions have a lot of nice features, like:

• Full support for Enhanced Window Manager Hints (EWMH).
• Full support for internationalization on different unices.
• FreeType font support (antialiasing).
• Any text may be shadowed with configurable shadow size and color.
• PNG support including alpha blending and rendering.
• Real transparency anywhere.
• Improved window decoration code (no flickering).
• Window titles at all 4 sides, vertical rotated text.
• WindowShade operation working in 8 different directions.
• Bi-directional text for asian charsets (and unicode).

fvwm-themes gives to a novice fvwm user a complete fvwm configuration with precreated themes. The user doesn't need to know any fvwm syntax to start using a reasonably powerful and themeable fvwm setup. All he needs is to install the latest fvwm, the latest fvwm-themes and start fvwm-themes-start. On the other hand, fvwm-themes gives to a more experience user an ability to create his own personal parts (so called personal theme) to use with other theme components or even to create a completely new theme.

• Loadable/unloadable/mix-able theme components
• Dynamical theme switching without a restart
• Effective theme specific modules
• Dynamical menus (like directory tree)
• Personal menus
• Optional transparency support
• Configurable functions (like view-manpage, edit-file)
• Self-explaining window titlebar buttons (Ctrl-Alt-ButtonClick)
• Sound support (several methods/players)
• Theme-able icons using wm-icons icon sets
• Strokes (mouse motions) and wheel binding support
• Pixmap cursors
• Convinient menu places using position hints
• Full featured window operations
• Per window group operations (like move all xterms to desk 2)
• Window style operations (like removing a title dynamically)
• Optional GNOME, KDE and a session manager support
• Enhanced Window Manager Hints support
• Translations to French and Russian
• Internal sessions for storing/restoring multiple configurations
• Exotic features not available on a user system are hidden
• Favorite components that should not be changed may be locked
• Debian menu system support
• Xinerama support
• and more...

FVWM Themes is stable enough and should work out of the box. A recent fvwm version (at least 2.4.8) is needed to run fvwm-themes.

Starting from 0.6.2, fvwm-themes is divided into 2 packages, fvwm-themes and fvwm-themes-extra. You should install fvwm-themes which contains the theme engine and utilities as well as 8 themes. fvwm-themes-extra is optional and contains 10 additional themes.

Here are the source packages:

• Base:
  fvwm-themes-0.6.2.tar.gz or the smaller fvwm-themes-0.6.2.tar.bz2

• Extra:
  fvwm-themes-extra-0.6.2.tar.gz or the smaller fvwm-themes-extra-0.6.2.tar.bz2

fvwm-themes follows the usual "configure; make install" installation procedure. To install the extra package you may execute this command as the same user that did "make install" for fvwm-themes-base:

[/path/]fvwm-themes-config --site --install fvwm-themes-extra.tar.gz

There are also RPM packages of fvwm, fvwm-themes and wm-icons.

The developement is reflected on the SourceForge's developement page. You can download the latest version from that page, fill bug reports, contact developers, and use the CVS. See also cvs instructions for fvwm, they are fully applied to fvwm-themes as well.

If you want to participate in developing fvwm-themes, be it ideas for the framework and GUI's, or learning how to create new themes, join the fvwm-themes-devel mailing list.

If you are the fvwm-themes user or/and have questions, suggestion or comments regarding fvwm-themes you can join the fvwm-themes-users mailing list. (Both lists are member-write, world-read lists, so there is no SPAM.)

Alex Wallis (awol) and Jason Kibblewhite (kibble) have founded #fvwm irc channel on EfNET, which can be used to discuss fvwm and fvwm-themes issues if you are lucky.

A list of other FVWM Themes related sites:

• Decorations by Suzanne Britton - including new titlebar functionality. fvwm-2.5
• Extended Window Manager Hints - integration with KDE. fvwm-2.4.x, but not 2.5.x
• Themes by Dorothy Robinson - very nice window decorations. fvwm-2.4
• Rainbow and ColScheme by Kathryn Andersen - some interesting color utilities. fvwm-2.4
• Themes by An Thi-Nguyen L - some different "look" themes and info. fvwm-2.3
• Jos Fvwm themes - interesting place by our companion Jos van Riswick. fvwm-2.3
• awols themes - the site by our companion Alex Wallis. fvwm-2.3
• fvwm-themer home - alternative theme setup by Eric Renfro. fvwm-2.3
• AnotherLevelUp - improved RedHat's AnotherLevel with many themes. fvwm-2.2
• fvwm2gnome - the site is not active, download link only. fvwm-2.2
• voidme themes - window decorations for fvwm2gnome. fvwm-2.2
• XYZZ Fvwm Themes - several "look" themes. fvwm-2.2
• Bluesman Fvwm themes - several "look" themes. fvwm-2.2
• Amy FVWM Resources - another theme place. fvwm-1.24, fvwm-2.2
• FVWM samples - user contributed fvwm configurations. any fvwm version
• The Official FVWM Homepage - the best window manager :-). all fvwm versions
• Window Manager Icons - icons for fvwm and fvwm-themes. wm independent