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How do I change the font in FVWM-Crystal? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/linuxquestions

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I have just set up a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with Raspbian "Bookworm", and I have decided that the classic desktop environment, FVWM-Crystal, is the one that feels right. However, I don't seem to be able to change the font.

Ordinarily, you would use the font selector dialog, but for some unknown reason it refuses to launch and I am unable to find it under /usr/bin, so I can't find out what's wrong.

Does anyone know either how to fix the dialog, how to find the binary, or how to change the font without using the dialog?

I understand that this is a very old DE, so if you can tell me about a newer alternative that looks the same and is equally lightweight, I'm all ears. Otherwise, please leave me to my madness.

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[–] possiblylinux127 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

FVWM is not a desktop but a window manager. Why are you using something so old? There are tons of better window managers.

Anyway, I did find this: https://www.fvwm.org/Wiki/Config/Fonts/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I was asking about FVWM-Crystal, which I thought was a desktop environment (albeit a very basic one).

Also,

I understand that this is a very old DE, so if you can tell me about a newer alternative that looks the same and is equally lightweight, I'm all ears. Otherwise, please leave me to my madness.

As it happens, though, I abandoned the idea due to the lack of any particularly nice themes. I'm now running dwm (with patches) on that machine, and I'm considering buying a RPi 5 and using something like Qtile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Damn, I guess no-one uses FVWM anymore.

[–] possiblylinux127 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah that's a fair statement. It is a bit before my time