FVWM

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2010–2024), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with FVWM, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Per-app scaling tweaks for Firefox break other apps; HiDPI works only under full GNOME2024-02-17
Key bindings designed for two hands are hard to use with one hand2021-11-15
Keyboard shortcuts assume two hands, making one-handed use very hard2021-11-15
Default setup looks ugly and takes lots of time to customize2021-05-02
Doesn't work as well as others out of the box; requires heavy config tweaking2010-10-02