Two things I've learned about my UX preferences while playing around with #openbsd and #fvwm and watching a few videos on the #CosmicDesktopEnvironment

1. I prefer full screen apps on smaller displays. (Including laptops) I blame cell phones for this preference.

2. When having more than one window on a screen I prefer the way fvwm or cosmic handle it by changing the color on the window pane or frame. This eliminates the need for often hard to make out visually window shadows or having to tint the non active window slightly. Like Gnome is currently doing.

I wish there was a way to do the same thing in Gnome with accessibility features or even an extension for gnome shell.

I’ve been working on a #freebsd from scratch blog post series and was going to skip right over Xorg (preferring #wayland and #sway)…and then I heard about #NSCDE - a reimplementation of #Solaris #CDE look-and-feel via #fvwm

Thanks to work by Christian Moerz, it was a snap. Literally `pkg install Xorg nscde` a change to my .xinitrc and I was up in a pastel bliss again. Run #interlisp on it is a beautiful joy.

I was so impressed AND I got to avoid abandonware security holes and bit rot— so I sent some librepay love. It’s a great project!

#fvwm #xquartz #macos

It is possible, via XQuartz, to run X11 applications. Here, I show xterm, but I also have firefox, etc.

All running in #fvwm

This really does make it possible to use a Mac for more than just... well, being a Mac...

#fvwm #fvwm3 version 1.1.2 has been released

For the full changelog, and release tarball, see here:

https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3/releases/tag/1.1.2

There are some breaking changes which are listed.

Style lines can now match some window properties:

Style (Name Foo, Class XTerm) Sticky

Would only make that window sticky if the window name matches "Foo", and the Class is "XTerm". All are case-sensitive.

There's been a few options added to existing commands' the "CursorMove" command can now take a screen name to move the cursor there.

Plus other bits-and-pieces; the changelog has more details.

If you have any issues, file a bug report on Github.

Enjoy!

One of the joys of setting up a nice #FVWM desktop is the amount of time you can use to just get one tiny toe wiggle. OK new background picked from local $HOME/.fvwm folders, but how to pick and display a bgicon from the same local config folder is a harder nut to crack. “+ "$[gt.Space]%bgicons/bg3.png%" SetBG bg3.png” #OpenBSD #RUNBSD

Interessant, wo überall bei #Linux festgelegt wird, welches Programm wofür zuständig ist. Wir haben Debians update-alternatives, ~/.config/mimeaps.list (die lauter Zombie-Einträge enthält, wenn es im Laufe der Zeit schon einige Deinstallationen gab), die KDE-Einstellung für Standardprogramme, die Firefox- und Thunderbird-internen Einstellungen dafür, ~/.mailcap (okay, die nutze ich nur für Mutt)...

Und bei #Fvwm blicke ich noch gar nicht durch, da ist es von Programm zu Programm unterschiedlich. Manche respektieren nicht einmal die Mimeapps-Liste oder update-alternatives, sondern bieten mir eine Auswahl von Programmen zum Öffnen an, die exakt 0 Einträge enthält (und Einträge, die ich optimistisch neu hinzufüge, im Nirvana ablegt).

Da ist bei meinem Fvwm noch Baustelle... Aber wir wollen ja lernen, wie das funktioniert. Also ich will.

#Fvwm - nur echt mit XEyes.

Allmählich nimmt mein Desktop Gestalt an. Die ganze Konfiguration ist eine große Textdatei, nichts mit Zusammenklicken.

Fvwm war in den 90ern mein erster Linux-Desktop. Und er ist immer noch gut brauchbar. Dabei braucht er nur wenige Ressourcen.

The Register is calling #XFCE the 'Unixi-est" of desktops.

After cocking my head to the side and pondering for a moment... Yeah, that tracks. I'm not even mad. lol

It's great to see XFCE on Wayland.

I'd still put #FVWM ahead of XFCE for "unixy-ness" though. FVWM has enough capabilities to be considered a "desktop" of sorts IMNSHO. Sadly, no Wayland on the horizon for FVWM.

#Linux #FreeBSD #TheRegister #IT #SOHO #HomeLab #GUI

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/18/xfce_420_is_out/

My Linux desktop. Someone asked about my config, but it's customized entirely for my use case.

The window manager is fvwm2, with a custom theme.

The only icons are minimized windows, I never liked the icon mess some people have.

The terminal is plain old xterm.

The wallpaper is selected semi-randomly (different months select from different folders) on each login. And this wallpaper appears to be in the wrong folder, it should be in the autumn folder, december gets the christmas folder.

On top I have polybar, with the background color chosen to match the wallpaper.

Top left is my own SGI-style toolchest program.

Lower right corner is root-tail, using green for .xsession-errors and yellow for syslog.