Mixed Theme Package
for FVWM
about
The Mixed Theme Package is a package of themes for the FVWM window manager. Currently the package contains two three four nine themes: The green stripes theme, the grey stripes theme, the pink theme, the deer theme, the waiting room theme, the meadow theme, the green theme, the blue theme and the orange theme.
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requirements
To get proper results you will need the development version of FVWM. It will not work with the 2.4.x versions of FVWM. Everything has been tested with FVWM 2.5.25, 2.5.23, 2.5.21, 2.5.18, 2.5.16, and 2.5.12. But it should also work with any newer version.
Xterm is used as terminal emulator. The shell scripts are written with Bash in mind. The Bitstream Vera font family is used as the default font. This font is now part of most GNU/Linux distributions and other UNIX-oid systems. The corresponding package under Debian is called ttf-bitstream-vera. ImageMagick is used for thumbnailing iconified windows and for converting the wallpapers to PNG. You will also need the XSwitchRes utility if you want to change the screen resolution through the resolution sub menu. If you want drop shadows then you have to setup the composite manager xcompmgr [1], [2] first. The Gentoo Linux Wiki gives some good advices for setting up xcompmgr. The xcompmgr support can then be enabled via the xcompmgr sub menu. And finally, a nice looking cursor theme for X is the industrial-cursor-theme. Another required utility is RootTiler for X, which is used for drawing the icon box on to the root window.
| name | debian |
|---|---|
| xterm | xterm |
| Bash | bash |
| Bitstream Vera | ttf-bitstream-vera |
| ImageMagick | imagemagick |
| XSwitchRes | - |
| xcompmgr [1], [2] | - |
| Industrial Cursor Theme | industrial-cursor-theme |
| RootTiler for X | - |
configuration
The installation process is described in the INSTALL file. And information about how to configure and customize the package to your own needs can be found in the file CUSTOMIZE.
There is also a patch which reduces the height of all menu separator lines to one pixel. The BUILD file describes how to apply this patch to the source code of FVWM and how to compile the result.
license
The whole package can't be released under a single license. The problem here is that each wallpaper was released under different terms. And some of them aren't compatible with each other, so a single license can't fit them all. To fix this issue, each theme is now released under the license of the used wallpaper. Please see the credits section for full details. It should be OK to bundle and distribute everything together in a single tarball. But don't forget: IANAL.
The wallpapers of the green stripes and the grey stripes theme are not included into the package. They must be downloaded separately from the desktop section of Louie Mantia's website. See the INSTALL file for instructions.
changelog
- Added some suggestions from Thomas Adam.
- Added green stripes theme.
- Added grey stripes theme.
- Added pink theme.
- Added deer theme.
- Added waiting room theme.
- Configuration clean up.
- Added meadow theme.
- Added xcompmgr support.
- Added date to clock script.
- Added green theme.
- Added clock script.
- Removed icon box.
- First public release.
credits
The wallpapers of the green stripes and the grey stripes theme were created by Louie Mantia and are released on LouieMantia.com for personal use only. They are part of the sgwa_w.zip archive and are called SG Striped Wallpaper #11.jpg and SG Striped Wallpaper #14.jpg.
The wallpaper of the pink theme is based on a photograph taken by baboon. It is released under the CC BY-NC 2.0 license. Please see the COPYING.pink file for full details.
The wallpaper of the deer theme is also based on a work created by baboon. It is released under the CC BY-NC 2.0 license. Please see the COPYING.deer file for details.
The wallpaper of the waiting room theme is another picture taken by baboon. It is released under the friendly CC BY-NC 2.0 license. Please see the COPYING.waitingroom file for all details.
The wallpaper of the meadow theme was created by Timothy Schellhase and can be downloaded from GNOME Art. It is released under the GNU General Public License. Please see the COPYING.meadow file for more details.
The wallpaper of the green theme was created by myself and is released under the terms of the CC BY-SA 2.0 license. Please see the COPYING.green file for more details. It is based on the sign "Atemschutz benutzen" which is part of the "Sicherheits- und Gesundheitsschutzkennzeichnung am Arbeitsplatz" instruction.
The wallpaper of the blue theme was created by Roger So and is released under the terms of a BSD-like license. Please see the COPYING.blue file for more details.
The wallpaper of the orange theme was created by LordZoltan and can be downloaded from deviantART. It is originally based on the gir.pig.flying.zip archive from the Wormbaby.com site. This site is dead for some time now, but the archive is also available through the Invader ZIM fan site Room With A Moose & Gir. Please see the COPYING.orange file for more details.
