FVWM
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Nov 14, 2025first mention
Aug 14, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“switch to FVWM or use some tool like mimalloc”
switched from CWMon “Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros”
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“after months I went back to fvwm”
switched from ratpoisonon “Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros 1 mention
- FVWM-95 (2001) 1 mention
- Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad 1 mention
Also written as fvwm. Data: fvwm.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 3
“switch to FVWM or use some tool like mimalloc”
“I have fond memories of FVWM.”
“after months I went back to fvwm”