Comments on: FVWM-Crystal: Please let go of my eyeballs http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/fvwm-crystal-please-let-go-of-my-eyeballs/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: albertfuller http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/fvwm-crystal-please-let-go-of-my-eyeballs/#comment-47969 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:18:46 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/fvwm-crystal-please-let-go-of-my-eyeballs/#comment-47969 I got my box in 2005 and I used KDE then went to Gnome. It’s now 2011 and my AMD athlon dual core 4200+ is really quite old and is a little slow (after prelinking etc.). When I start Gnome, my cpu is at 60%-70%. So I moved to fvwm-crystal. Now when I start fvwm-crystal my cpu is at 3%-5% and things are really very crisp.

I was planning on buying a new box because I thought my current box was “too old.” But having switched over to fvwm-crystal I am once again happy with the performance of my computer … now at 5 years later.

The flexability of Linux really helps when new become old and old is still very satisfactory.

]]> By: Three middleweights « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/fvwm-crystal-please-let-go-of-my-eyeballs/#comment-46956 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:43:31 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/fvwm-crystal-please-let-go-of-my-eyeballs/#comment-46956 [...] the other hand, it’s been a long time since I used fvwm-crystal, and it’s just as pretty as it ever was. Can’t complain about [...]

]]> By: Windowmaker takes the back seat … again « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/fvwm-crystal-please-let-go-of-my-eyeballs/#comment-38662 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:31:13 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/fvwm-crystal-please-let-go-of-my-eyeballs/#comment-38662 [...] Fluxbox is okay, but somehow too over-the-top; FVWM held my interest for a while, when I found the Crystal version; and so forth — but Windowmaker has the ignominous label of being the one that was [...]

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/fvwm-crystal-please-let-go-of-my-eyeballs/#comment-38403 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:26:50 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/fvwm-crystal-please-let-go-of-my-eyeballs/#comment-38403 That’s rxvt-unicode, which can do pseudotransparency by configuring it in the .Xdefaults file.

]]> By: Gutemberg http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/fvwm-crystal-please-let-go-of-my-eyeballs/#comment-38402 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:57:32 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/fvwm-crystal-please-let-go-of-my-eyeballs/#comment-38402 It looks very nice!!!

I’am using fvwm-crystall for about 2 weeks and everything looks pretty nice.
How did you configure the transparent terminal?

thanks!! :)

]]> By: Zigzo Blogz http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/fvwm-crystal-please-let-go-of-my-eyeballs/#comment-804 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:35:02 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/fvwm-crystal-please-let-go-of-my-eyeballs/#comment-804 You are right, this thing is beautiful.

I just installed it on Ubuntu and it looks Awesome, its fast as a mudda and i think the icon bar is very intuitive.

It might take me a little getting used to but its clear that this is a very productive workspace. Right click the desktop and BAM terminal… and as you know, the terminal is where all the hot chicks hang out.

Thanks for the post man, after reading this i decided to install it and after an apt-get install fvwm-crystal its working flawlessly.

]]> By: kmandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/fvwm-crystal-please-let-go-of-my-eyeballs/#comment-253 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:42:12 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/fvwm-crystal-please-let-go-of-my-eyeballs/#comment-253 I’m not sure what you mean. The menubars, taskbars, system tray and application menus are see-through, and are tintable through the setup files. There are several different setups and styles, and the predominance are designed to be transparent in some form.

This is a lot different than straight FVWM, which always struck me as stodgy, and not worth the time to prettify. This is quite beautiful.

]]> By: xabbott http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/fvwm-crystal-please-let-go-of-my-eyeballs/#comment-250 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:16:00 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/fvwm-crystal-please-let-go-of-my-eyeballs/#comment-250 It’s not real transparency right?

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