My current desktop for May/June 2025. Curious about the setup? Feel free to ask questions and comment!
#windowmaker
@mhoye #Windowmaker. Whenever I reinstall I try something else but I always end up back on `wmaker &` so my motor memory from the late 90s/early 00s stops stubbing its toes against kde/gnome/whatever legs.
If you liked #WindowMaker and wish there was a #Wayland version ? Worry no more as a port is being worked on as we speak. Nothing to do with me though as I'm just sharing. #WLMaker
https://github.com/phkaeser/wlmaker/tree/main
https://github.com/phkaeser/wlmaker/tree/main
Kinda frustrated with the state of #desktops in #Linux / #BSD / #Unix
You can either have a fully functional, but kind of frustrating-to-use (too mouse-centric) desktop with Gnome or KDE Plasma, or you can have a lean, efficient, and fast wm/compositor like #i3, #sway #awesomewm #evilwm, #cwm, #bspwm, or whatever you like, BUT you will constantly be scratching your head when #Gnome and #GTK programs either start very slowly or refuse to run at all, and are constantly trying to figure out what combination of configuration, daemon, and small animal sacrifices are necessary to do what the big, bloated desktops do automatically.
It's freaking exhausting, and I want to go back to the days that every one just ran #IceWM, #Enlightenment, or #WindowMaker.
P.S., Just for clarity, I really do love #KDE #Plasma. I think it's a wonderful, easy-to-use, and extremely flexible desktop. But sometimes I really don't want a desktop, I just want a lean-and-basic UI that stays out of my way (for home stuff vs. work stuff, generally).
Fair enough. #Screenshot attached. #Fluxbox with #emacs split paned and a few grouped windows. (Why don't other WM / DEs have this?)
Need to download and compile at least wmglobe.
Would love to redo the dock apps to be 128 px instead of 64. Of course, back in the day, 64 was almost too big.
Also, got my across-the-top conky reworked to be on the far left.
Now that the important stuff is taken care of, I should prolly do some work.
@chris_spackman man, you can’t just write about it and not provide any screenshot(s) 😄 I only used #WindowMaker briefly, but the older I got the more fond I am of its look 😅
nice thing about an ultra-wide monitor - putting back all the #WindowMaker #DockApps that I couldn't justify using the space for on the previous, regular monitor.
I'll probably spend some time this summer tracking down and compiling (or attempting to get to compile) some of the ones that are no longer in #Gentoo repos.
I've got #wmCalClock #wmMatrix #wmMoon #wmSun and a couple of others beautifying and info-fying my desktop already.
1440 / 64 = 22(-ish), so room for more
Acá va un #viernesdeescritorio con toda la nostalgia de los 2000s Slackware 15 32-bits con escritorio WindowMaker en Dell Precision 530MT Dual Xeon 2800DP 2GB RDRAM ECC 250GB IDE ATA RAID-1 nVidia FX5500 256MB con kernel custom en exhibición en la FLISoL Montevideo 2025 próximamente #slackware #windowmaker #dell #nostalgia #gnulinux
Για μερικά χρόνια μέχρι ~το 2010-, χρησιμοποιούσα windowmaker, μετά το γύρισα σε πιο μοντέρνους wm, και είχα ξεχάσει πόσο γαμάτο, 90ς στάιλ είναι το wmaker
I'm trying out #windowmaker on my Debian box and i love it!
Linux-десктоп своими руками: Make Computers Fast Again
Уже говорил как-то, что в свое время перешел с Windows на FreeBSD в том числе из-за того, что FreeBSD работала быстрее на том же железе, и не требовалось плясок с бубнами, потому что в общем-то всё что нужно - настраивалось от и до. Потом Linux - потому что лучше поддержка железа, ну и, в общем, никакого желания возвращаться на Windows уже не возникало. Но время идёт, и вот последние версии Ubuntu до боли напоминают Windows своей неспешностью и сложнопредсказуемостью. А тут еще желание сделать удобный для работы десктоп из TV-бокса... В принципе, нашлась уже готовая Armbian-сборка под мой TV-бокс, с уже настроенным десктопом XFCE - но несмотря на то, что XFCE считается "легковесной" - она оказалась недостаточно легковесная, не настолько насколько мне бы хотелось. Заметно подтормаживали окошки, всё в целом как-то не так... А ведь несмотря на свою "маленьковость" - компьютер-то должен быть неплохим: 4Гб RAM, 4 ядра по 1.5ГГц, когда-то подобные были вообще за пределами доступности, и ведь тогда "всё работало", и работало быстро, на гораздо более медленном железе. Что же не так, неужели ARM в принципе тормозные процессоры? В общем, решил собрать "десктоп" с нуля. Ну, почти. (всё дальше - за исключением сугубо "железячной" части вполне применимо для любых компьютеров и ноутбуков)
For builders of the wmlive ISO, source update wmlive-bookworm-12.9.1.tar.xz was uploaded to sourceforge. * backport kernel version 6.12.9 for amd64 ISO * added throttled-0.11.tar.xz into build tree * bug fixes for wmlive-base and wmlive-installer #wmlive #gnustep #wmaker #windowmaker #debian
For those building the wmlive ISO images themselves, build sources wmlive-bookworm-12.9.1.tar.xz was uploaded to sourceforge. Notable changes:
* Switch to backport kernel version 6.12.9 for amd64 ISO.
* Add build-config/wmlive-opt/*/throttled-0.11.tar.xz into build tree.
Additionally, included helper packages wmlive-base and wmlive-installer have some bugs fixed.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/wmlive/files/wmlive-bookworm-12.8/wmlive-bookworm-12.9.1.tar.xz
Sto riscoprendo l'essenzialità di #WindowMaker come window manager per linux.
Nice! I haven't seen someone using #WindowMaker in a long time. <3
NextStep: The Visionary OS, Steve Jobs’s Apple Exodus, and the GNUstep Legacy
NextStep was a pioneering operating system and development environment created by NeXT Inc., the company founded by Steve Jobs following his departure from Apple. Released in 1989, NextStep introduced technologies and design principles that would heavily influence modern computing.
Read More: https://machaddr.substack.com/p/nextstep-the-visionary-os-steve-jobss
#Steve #Jobs #Computing #History #NextStep #Workstation #Operating #Systems #GNUStep #WindowMaker
Also talking of #WindowMaker found a project that intends to recreate it for #Wayland. Any takers doing the same for #CDE aka #CommonDesktopEnvironment I like sharp pixel corners.
I love messing with alternate operating systems and have to admit modern #FreeBSD is a lot fun, also #WindowMaker for that nostalgic touch, still no bloody idea why #Xonotic is segfaulting since a few updates though, everything else 3D runs like a champ.
WindowMaker is still going strong. I love it on my really old hardware or in a VM
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