"When free software was taking off so was the economy in the
tech sector. Hardware acceleration of all types was running at
break neck speeds with the promise of hitting the wall soon! (which
still hasn't really happened). At the same time many heretofore
tomes of knowledge about X programming were being updated and
republished, put online etc. Add to the pile the rocketing take off
of the internet it was time to innovate and create new wicked cool
desktop environments.
"FVWM2
"The FVWM window manager underwent enough changes to be dubbed
FVWM2; a completely new implementation of fvwm. It still retained
its core features and has since advanced into the realm of all
sorts of cool stuff. Also, along the way, a forked version of fvwm
was created called fvwm95 which looked and felt a lot like a
certain other software product with the 95 nomenclature in its
name:"