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RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - shrek - 10-21-2021
(10-21-2021, 04:57 PM)ThatChris Wrote:(10-21-2021, 01:02 PM)shrek Wrote: One step closer to understanding the shadow layout on windows. I'll do more experiments with pixmaps tonight to see if I can get IRIX-style dithering on the window decorations.
This awesome! Good luck, I think what SGI did, they did internally with their own Motif version. I hope I'm wrong.
I actually did work on MaXX project for a while a few years ago, I wrote a lot of the initial documentation but I left because it would be OMGLOTSTODO then silence for months from the project leader.
I have dithering working for the outer border at least.
HEY RAION I HAVE DITHERING
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - ThatChris - 10-21-2021
(10-21-2021, 08:35 PM)shrek Wrote:Awesome! Good work! By the way I have a couple of icons that I donated to the MaXX project you can have, the best one is the Console icon, which was used for the terminal when minimized.(10-21-2021, 04:57 PM)ThatChris Wrote:(10-21-2021, 01:02 PM)shrek Wrote: One step closer to understanding the shadow layout on windows. I'll do more experiments with pixmaps tonight to see if I can get IRIX-style dithering on the window decorations.
This awesome! Good luck, I think what SGI did, they did internally with their own Motif version. I hope I'm wrong.
I actually did work on MaXX project for a while a few years ago, I wrote a lot of the initial documentation but I left because it would be OMGLOTSTODO then silence for months from the project leader.
I have dithering working for the outer border at least.
HEY RAION I HAVE DITHERING
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - Raion - 10-21-2021
Noice guys noice. Thank you guys so much.
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - shrek - 10-23-2021
(10-19-2021, 06:00 AM)Raion Wrote: Even prettier now, with SGI-style cursor, more apps, and a better toolchest layout.
I also shared this and the prior image to /r/unixporn. I bet people are gonna start looking at you Shrek!
Ok so I figured out why your window borders look like that. My earlier configs have been broken by some recent changes to the WM's source code.
When specifying WM specific resources you should include "client" for client windows to make sure it's coloring the right UI element.
Old way: Mwm*activeBackground: #d7d1b7
New way: Mwm*client*activeBackground: #d7d1b7
If you want to keep the darker outer borders you can still do that with the updated format. Just set the colors manually.
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - shrek - 10-25-2021
Got Xplore to build. We now have a native (albeit buggy) Motif file manager.
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - Raion - 10-25-2021
I also found pfm: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/X11/desktop/pfm-1.0.tgz
Trying to get it to build now -- it's Motif-based and doesn't use iMake
It's also MIT-like, unlike GPLv2 -- I'll see if it's any good.
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - shrek - 10-25-2021
(10-25-2021, 02:50 PM)Raion Wrote: I also found pfm: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/X11/desktop/pfm-1.0.tgz
Trying to get it to build now -- it's Motif-based and doesn't use iMake
It's also MIT-like, unlike GPLv2 -- I'll see if it's any good.
I tried this but I can't get it to build. I tried building by hand without the makefile with various options and tried to fix up some of the source files. Xplore is also in a really rough shape. It segfaults doing basic things like trying to click a folder in the right pane.
IMO the best solution is to make a modern Motif file manager from scratch. I'm not a good enough programmer to do it so for now all I can do is try to make themes for another decent file manager like Xfe or Thunar.
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - Raion - 10-25-2021
I'll give it a shot at fixing pfm.
If that doesn't work then let's stay with xfe.
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - Raion - 10-26-2021
Have you tried this? https://sourceforge.net/projects/bxfm/files/
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - shrek - 10-27-2021
(10-26-2021, 01:37 AM)Raion Wrote: Have you tried this? https://sourceforge.net/projects/bxfm/files/
I would like to - the screenshots look cool - but it's very picky about dependencies. I don't know if I can get this to build since xmnllib doesn't want to cooperate.
As you can see I compiled and installed the required third party Motif librarie. They're in /usr/local/lib and the configuration script sees them but won't use them? Kinda odd. Are you able to build on your system?