Installed Power #MachTen 4.1.4 and upgraded to 5.0.5. After startup I got reminded quickly that backspace didn't erase characters but 'stty erase "^H"' fixed that.
MachTen is bundled with #afterstep but very few other binaries. and compiling OpenSSL might take some time...
Does anyone know any repo of precompiled #ppc binaries for this platform?
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What are people's thoughts on the future of #X11 ?
The #Linux world is turning it's back on X in order to adopt #wayland
I suspect that similar things are getting to critical mass in the #BSD world.
Is X going to disappear entirely? Become super niche? Become abandoned? Remember xfree86?
I look to old window managers like #Openbox, #fvwm, #afterstep, and others and get all "misty eyed" about what will be lost.
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Bem-vindos ao podcast Retrópolis! Apresentado pela Municipalidade de Retrópolis. Esta é a Parte B do Episódio 156. Sobre o episódio Já falamos de workstations há 55 episódios atrás, mas precisava de um episódio pra gente falar com um pouco mais de atenção sobre o NeXT e o NeXTSTEP. Sobre esta parte Falamos do NeXTstation e
@BrodieOnLinux FVWM is/was great. I started using more or less when it started and I've used it as recently as 2022 on some custom embedded "carputer" type devices. Totally themeable/strippable/placeable.
Would like to see a #wayland version but... probably won't happen.
Had a stint of using #afterstep for a number of years. On an Intel Pentium dual P90 homebuilt. Ha!
@osnews Still running #FVWM here after all those years. I used to use #KDE a lot (still use the applications), have tried #Gnome several times. Used #Awesome for a bit… #WindowMaker, #AfterStep… #FVWM I keep coming back to.
I basically have it mostly configured as a manual tiling window manager through a couple of keyboard shortcuts that allow me to open windows full-screen, ½-screen or ¼-screen.
This has worked well for over 10 years now.
#x11cp #x11 #archaic application.
This time, it's #xsclock which is a 56x56 #dockapp intended to be used in #afterstep's wharf module, but equally applies to #fvwmbuttons as well.
Originally written by Namio MATUDA, around 1999-Nov-24. The version I have here is 0.22
There is only one option `--day` which shows the day/month in the window.
Screenshots attached.
Also I couldn't finish my magnum opus theme which would've lifted #afterstep onto a completely new level visually because sasha didn't want to implement a feature I needed for that…
It was an extremely sleek yin-yang theme with silver and black using aftersteps shaped windows and came with a fitting wallpaper. Probably the one project of mine that I miss backups of the most… :/
12 years ago, I made the best #afterstep themes in existence and I didn't even release them… :<
Back then, the artwiz-aleczapka fonts were *big* in the desktop customization scene – I also made a couple of fluxbox themes using them.
Also, take note that the whole system including desktop and filemanager took only 90M memory, partly because I had a hyper-customized kernel that had just the stuff my machine supported and *nothing* else.
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