Mastodawn

@matthew I go with #WMonly, the leaner, the better. I use #ctwm on both #netbsd and #openbsd

Sometimes it's fun to go old-school Linux. Running #CTWM on #LMDE7, I have XMMS, a twenty year-old X11 Winamp clone running, while playing XTris, an X11 Tetris clone.

Thomas Adam Apr 24

#cow #fvwm #wayland

Currently working on squeeze titlebars.

This is something which some people wanted in fvwm, and it actually comes from #ctwm, whereby the titlebar was squeezed to its length so it didn't take up the whole width of the window.

Wayland doesn't have any shape support (a la XShape extension) so doing this manually is tricky.

Anyway, screenshot attached of what squeezed titlebars will look like in CoW. Options for left, centre, or right aligned.

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KaiXin Mar 11

@[email protected] They bundled a pretty slick theme for #CTWM in #NetBSD, which is simple but big improvement for out of box user experience.

KaiXin Jan 1

I tried #TWM #CWM #CTWM #FVWM and #evilWM as well as #IceWM . It appeared iceWM had so many features from background setting, panel/taskbar customization to window decoration styles and placement. Starting to wonder if it should be called a desktop environment #DE instead of window manager #WM .

#FOSS #UNIX #BSD #LINUX

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Micheal

Jan 1

Progress. X and ctwm is running with VESA (not mach64 unfortunately) but has some distortion that needs fixing. Not exactly "snappy" either, but at least it's a GUI.

#netbsd #bsd #ctwm #xorg #x11 #retrocomputing

arosano 🇩🇰 🇮🇱Dec 30

@midtsveen #AlpineLinux with #WM #openbox. No #DE. But 95% of the time I'm on #NetBSD with #ctwm

KaiXin Dec 24

Following my #NetBSD 10.1 journey where my #ThinkPad T470s wake up from S3 suspend with dead keyboard and touchpad yet working WiFi, today I tried with the lastest 11.0 snapshot (20251220). All the same as before, unresponsive keyboard and touchpad, with working WiFi. However when I tried with a USB connected keyboard in default #CTWM session, the keyboard seemed to work after a while. At the same time, WiFi got disconnected so I lost ssh access and had to use power button for hard shutdown.

I think I will probably end my NetBSD journey at this point.

#FOSS #Unix #BSD #RunBSD

KaiXin Dec 13

Since #NetBSD comes with a nicely configured #CTWM. I copied their config files to #FreeBSD and with a few small changes, mainly command path differences between the two, and now CTWM seems much better!

#RunBSD #BSD #Unix #FOSS

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these machines will destroy US.Nov 27

I am really enjoying #CTWM it feels like just enough control