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FVWM95 is a window manager

X window manager

An X window manager is a window manager which runs on top of the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems.Unlike the Mac OS and Microsoft Windows platforms, which have historically provided a vendor-controlled, fixed set of ways to control how windows and paned windows display on a Computer display, and how the...
for the X Window System

X Window System

The X Window System is a computing software system and network protocol that provides a graphical user interface for networked computers. It implements the X Window System protocols and architecture and provides windowing system on raster graphics Visual display units and manages Keyboard and pointing device control functions....
based on the popular FVWM2

FVWM

The F Virtual Window Manager is a virtual window manager for the X Window System. Originally a twm derivative, FVWM has evolved into a powerful and highly configurable environment for Unix systems....
window manager. It is similar to the original FVWM, but is designed to closely resemble the look of Windows 95

Windows 95

Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented graphical user interface-based operating system. It was released on August 24, 1995 by Microsoft, and was a significant progression from the company's previous Microsoft Windows products....
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FVWM95 was for a while a rather popular window manager; for example, Red Hat Linux

Red Hat Linux

Red Hat Linux, assembled by the company Red Hat, was a popular Linux based operating system until its discontinuation in 2004.Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994....
5.0 used it as the default. It is no longer as popular (nor is it well-maintained), but still in use.

Similar window managers include QVWM

QVWM

QVWM is a X window manager for Linux and Unix systems designed to provide a Windows 95/Windows 98-like environment with minimum system resources....
, IceWM

IceWM

IceWM is a stacking window manager for the X Window System graphical infrastructure, written by Marko Macek. It was coded from scratch in C++ and is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License....
and JWM

JWM

JWM is a window manager for the X Window System written by Joe Wingbermuehle. JWM is written in C and uses only Xlib at a minimum. Support for the following can be added as compile-time options:...

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FVWM95 is a window manager

X window manager

X Window System

FVWM

Windows 95

Red Hat Linux

QVWM

QVWM is a X window manager for Linux and Unix systems designed to provide a Windows 95/Windows 98-like environment with minimum system resources....
, IceWM

IceWM

JWM

Features

Windows 95-like appearance.
Taskbar
Taskbar

In computing, the taskbar is a term for an application desktop bar which is used to launch and monitor applications. Microsoft incorporated a taskbar in Windows 95 and it has been a defining aspect of Microsoft Windows's graphical user interface ever since....
for quick window switching.
Virtual desktop
Virtual desktop

A virtual desktop is a term used, usually within the WIMP paradigm, to describe ways in which a computer's desktop environment is expanded through the use of software....
support.
Most features from FVWM2 (may not include absolute latest bleeding-edge capabilities).

FVWM95

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