If you're looking for something simpler, with a sane out-of-the-box config, consider OpenBSD's cwm(1) -- the calm window manager. A portable version for Linux/BSD is available at <a href="https://github.com/leahneukirchen/cwm" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/leahneukirchen/cwm</a>
I came back to fvwm, previously using cwm and spectrwm, just because I found annoying to lose control of my wm after sharing screen on zoom (a must have due to working remotely). Very happy with it, particularly after giving it a old school unix twist with <a href="https://github.com/yaoguai/fvwm-min" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/yaoguai/fvwm-min</a>
i have found this : <a href="http://zensites.net/fvwm/guide/" rel="nofollow">http://zensites.net/fvwm/guide/</a> to be quite a valuable resource as well for fvwm.
I am surprised FVWM is still around. It was the first window manager I was exposed to in the 90s and my experience was very negative.<p>Its default configuration was terribly ugly and the software expose a bazillion of option to the user for customizing. At the time this seemed sort of cool but I learnt it is just very bad as it take a lot of your time to customize things and at the end it still looks amateurish.<p>Since then I consider good software those that have sane defaults out of the box and have only as few options as possible and only for doing useful customization.<p>I generally consider as bad software those that omit to take decisions and leave to the user the responsibility by exposing all the minute options. FVWM was a sort of champion in this respect.
Is there another "scrolling" window manager like FVWM which gives you a workspace larger than your screen but doesn't have an impenetrable configuration DSL?
<a href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/os-specific/bsd/netbsd/default.nix" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/os-specifi...</a> well, we've been taking some baby steps towards being kernel-agnostic. That's one way to tackle this.