This is a fork of fvwm95 meant to be compilable on and play nice with newer Unix-like operating systems.

It is based off the code from the source package in Debian Sarge, slightly modified so that it compiles without errors on modern OSes, and with a more sane configuration to adapt to modern day needs.

The following packages are needed in order to build fvwm95:

On Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake pkg-config xorg xinit xbitmaps libx11-dev libxt-dev libxext-dev libxpm-dev libreadline-dev libxmu-headers

On Arch:

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel autoconf automake pkgconf xorg xorg-xinit xbitmaps libx11 libxt libxext libxpm readline libxmu

The following packages are not necessary to build fvwm95 itself, but they are nice to have with the default config:

• xscreensaver
• nitrogen
• thunar
• xterm
• lxappearance
• pulseaudio
• pavucontrol

After all the dependencies are satisfied - configure, build, and install (into /usr/local - change if wanted) fvwm95 by running:

./bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

In order to start fvwm95 with xinit, add the following to your ~/.xinitrc file:

exec fvwm95

To start it, simply type:

startx