There isn't much helpful in the article
Customizing
FVWM. Nothing on why to choose
fvwm as a window manager over
gnome or
KDE except that it's 'light and fast' in
contrast to the other two being 'heavy on memory usage'. Well,
iceWM,
fluxbox and
xfce4 are lightweight also.
A link to
Window Managers for X
would have been helpful. That site has introductory pages on most
window manangers and desktop environments, links to other resources
and some basic feature and resource usage comparisons. It was an
enormous help when I started using Linux around ten years
ago.
The most helpful items in the linux.com article are the mention of
the piperead command in the configuration file .fvwm2rc (which is
not necessarily in ~/.fvwm/ in a Debian install: mine is in ~/) and
the mention in the comments section of the
fvwm forums where fvwm users discuss the
best window manager and answer questions. And, starting with
v2.5.11, it's no longer .fvwm2rc, it's ~/.fvwm/config, which is
in the
FAQ.