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ah the desktop/wm wars. sometime ago (> 15 years) i got fvmw working just so, and haven't looked back. though i have tried almost everything under the sun, including (but not limited to) afterstep, window-maker, litestep, cde, kde, gnome etc. etc.

i just keep coming back to fvwm again and again. the hobbit within me would say "there and back again" ;)

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Unfortunately, X is headed for the shitpile of history and fvwm has no Wayland equivalent.

this conversation in fvwm forum in 2k13 seems relevant: http://www.fvwmforums.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=3010

seems like even with wayland, X will not be ripped out, and window-managers can run alongsides (ref: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_4)

This info is old. Right now the goal is to deprecate X and move everybody to Wayland, except for legacy Motif apps and the like which can't be migrated. The major modern toolkits -- GTK and Qt -- will remove X11 support some time in the future.

hmm, have you looked at this: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html , where they talk about running _any_ Xclient on wayland ?

XWayland is only a stopgap/transition tool. Maintainers want to maintain as few code paths as possible; ideally one per platform. For toolkits that will be Wayland, not X11, once Wayland reaches critical mass.

X11 is deprecated.

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