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<h1><font color="pink">The Official FVWM Homepage - Features</font></h1>
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Partial list of features common to 1.xx and 2.xx:
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<li>Multiple Disjoint Large Virtual Desktops
<li>Smaller memory usage (more so in 1.xx)
<li>Dynamically extensable via modules
<li>Recognizes Motif MWM hints
<li>Keyboard or Mouse operation
<li>Attempts to be ICCCM 1.1 compliant
<li>3-D look to window frames
<li>Full color shaped icons
<li>M4 preprocesing of the config file
<li>Auto-raising of windows
<li>Multi-screen support
<li>Cursor (Mouse Pointer) control on a context basis
<li>Viewport scrolling by moving the mouse off the edge of the screen
<li>Different window decorations for window that have or don't have focus
<li>Multiple ways to control icon placement
<li>Multiple ways to control initial window placement
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Partial list of features new to 2.xx:
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<li>New more powerful and sensible rc file format
<li>Change more features on per-window basis
<li>Change many features on the fly
<li>Optional Flat or Pixmap window borders
<li>Recogizes Open Look hints
<li>Just about any focus style you can think of
<li>Unwanted features can be removed at compile time
<li>CPP preprocesing of the config file
<li>Titlebars can be suppressed, Pixmaps, gradients, or plain
<li>Titlebar buttons can be vector graphics, pixmaps or gradients
<li>Menu hot-keys, continuation menus, pixmaps in and to the side
of menus
<li>Macro definition in the config file
<li>Animated window movement
<li>A way to limit the amount of color used by fvwm (for 8 bit displays)
<li>Window manager commands can come from external programs
<li>Roll-up type window shading
<li>Some ability to centrally configure fvwm
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