[Shiunbird]

I see...

Well, then...
For now I am settled on WindowMaker for a no-frills, no-silly animations, no fade-ins and fade-outs, no-notifications distraction-free experience.

It doesn't see many updates, most of the widgets haven't seen new code in a decade, but everything works out on my G5 running Debian 11 and an Nvidia GPU.

I'm looking for something a bit more featured but not too distracting. I don't like Xfce all that much and anything else that uses more animations starts throwing millions of errors on nouveau.

[Raion]

E16 with an IRIX theme is what I use right now.

[shrek]

I see...

Well, then...
For now I am settled on WindowMaker for a no-frills, no-silly animations, no fade-ins and fade-outs, no-notifications distraction-free experience.

It doesn't see many updates, most of the widgets haven't seen new code in a decade, but everything works out on my G5 running Debian 11 and an Nvidia GPU.

I'm looking for something a bit more featured but not too distracting. I don't like Xfce all that much and anything else that uses more animations starts throwing millions of errors on nouveau.

I am adding some shadows and animations through compton to fade windows when they minimize but it's very short and shouldn't mess with the GPU at all. There will be an option to disable it by commenting out one line in ~/.sessionetc

I'm almost done doing the configs and instructions. If I don't upload tonight I will tomorrow for sure.

[Shiunbird]

Very cool development!

Nowadays, I only turn my Mac Pro when I need a boatload of RAM (sometimes I need to stitch together drone photos for my brother) or for whatever web browsing case that my G5 doesn't handle well.

For learning C, I've been using my C8000 and I'm writing some small lightweight web pages using the Octane.

[shrek]

I updated the opening post to include a download link.

Here's a Toolbox menu entry for controlling a laptop's brightness. I'm not including it in the default toolboxrc because it might not work on all hardware. The README file includes a section towards the bottom about making and Xorg configuration to enable xbacklight controls on an Intel ThinkPad.

Display &Brightness
{
&Indoors (40): xbacklight -set 40
&Outdoors (80): xbacklight -set 80
&LowLight (10): xbacklight -set 10
SEPARATOR
&10%: xbacklight -set 10
&20%: xbacklight -set 20
&30%: xbacklight -set 30
&40%: xbacklight -set 40
&50%: xbacklight -set 50
&60%: xbacklight -set 60
&70%: xbacklight -set 70
&80%: xbacklight -set 80
&90%: xbacklight -set 90
&100%: xbacklight -set 100
}

[jirka]

I see...


I'm looking for something a bit more featured but not too distracting. 

FVWM maybe? Yes, FVMC configuration file is a hell but then it can work very well (I know asi I used it for about 20 years as my main environment). Not installed it on my Intellistation, yet...

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I'm attaching two images. One is the default theme and the other is the almost finished dark theme.

Oh, that looks great! Also you selected a lot of programs I used in the past (Plan and so). Very nice!

[shrek]

I don't think I really showed off the charcoal theme so here it is.

[Raion]

Have you figured out the .Xdefaults command to change fonts? I'd like to see how to make a more IRIX-y, Italic/ugly text font, or at least a bold text font that's not centered.

[shrek]

Have you figured out the .Xdefaults command to change fonts? I'd like to see how to make a more IRIX-y, Italic/ugly text font, or at least a bold text font that's not centered.

You should be able to use the old Adobe fonts if you install them manually and enable bitmap fonts for your system. Use something like xfontsel to get the right type and size. I would like to move the title text to the left but I couldn't find anything in the manual pages. That might be a proprietary SGI extension. I think in MaXX it's called sgTitleLeft or something similar.

[Raion]

I found references in the code at a brief glance to "Title padding" as well as X and Y positions of the titles? I don't suppose that someone with better eyes could find the specific function (this was a quick, dirty glance) that builds/renders the title, but that would probably be where I'd start, if such a design is your desire.

Beyond that, getting the SGI dithering down would be neat, but ultimately doesn't bother me. I may try building this for FreeBSD soon, I use E16 wwith "IREX" right now but it has bugs out the wazoo due to some weirdness.