Checked out r/unixporn but it's all just completely flat themes with no visible UI elements. What's the point of showing off your ~-~kEwL~-~ Linux desktop if it just looks like Windows 10?
Like come on, where's the WindowMaker dock with 10 completely useless dockapps running? No rippling reflecting water effect at the bottom of the screen that uses up 50% of your CPU? Not even a Matrix code background? Kids these days...
This is what a real Unix desktop should look like. Bunch of useless dockapps, Matrix theme, XMMS, Unix joke about /dev/brain, IRC, list of movie players you use to play your illegally downloaded Buffy the Vampire episodes, and a folder of book warez downloaded from Project Gutenberg
It warms my heart to see that there are still packages for wmcube and wmfire in Debian
It used to be that there was a huge library of different window manager themes on themes.org / themes.freshmeat.net, but a few years back the site shut down and there doesn't appear to have been any attempt to archive it. Damn shame to see user generated content like this just vanish.
Ironically, it seems freshmeat for several years in response to the archive.org crawler was just serving empty pages with the message, "There is no need to mirror our content". Turns out yes, there was.
Currently assembling my own screenshot so I can show these r/unixporn kids what a real Unix desktop looks like. Having some problems getting fsv to work though.
List of all the dockapps I have running in that screenshot:
wmitime wmifs wmmisc wmmon wmix wmbattery wmnd wmtime wmcore wmtop wmfire wmpinboard wmmatrix wmxmms2 wmifinfo wmwave wmcalc wmdiskmon wmmoonclock wmdate wmgtemp wmforecast wmsun wmbutton wmsysmon wmclock wmclockmon wmcube wmcliphist wmfsm wmcpuload wmpuzzle
Once I get this all assembled I need to make an animated GIF of it. A static screenshot really doesn't do all the animated dockapps justice.
I'm using about half a core just for all the animations that show CPU usage
Taking suggestions for what to replace the Window Maker logo with on the dock
Audacious can use (most) WinAmp themes and is still being maintained, FWIW.
@fraggle > The old WinAmp-style UI doesn't even exist any more and the new default interface is ... a CLI.
Oh FFS this is what happens when software is basically finished, but people want to keep working on it
@fraggle I don't know, but I like qmmp for that style of player now.
@nivex that's what I ended up using
@fraggle as far as I remember, it died out when GTK2 arrived and xmms2 was to be a rewrite to separate backend/frontend, as you've found. Beep media player was a fork of the original XMMS and to gtk2. then that ceased, BMPx was started instead, and then beep media player original was forked into Audacious. Audacious still has the Winamp2 interface, as well as a QT interface.
@ryan Ahh I remember Beep now. Thanks for the Audacious recommendation too, I did see that but the screenshots I saw made it look like an iTunes clone
@fraggle yeah, it seems like almost every media player has to have the itunes clone mode now hah
@fraggle this is amazing
@fraggle you should absolutely post it there
@fraggle I found this screenshot of one of my old setups a while back. I used WindowMaker before this Gnome 1 setup, so put the taskbar on the right.
@fraggle wmaker for life! Well, OK, I'm using i3 now, but, yeah...
@fraggle holy nostalgia batman
@fraggle this takes me wayyyyyyy back.
by the way, what in god's name has happened to xmms? it used to be just a simple Gtk-based clone of WinAmp, but apparently at some point the devs decided that they were actually developing an elaborate multi-frontend client-server music playing framework? The old WinAmp-style UI doesn't even exist any more and the new default interface is ... a CLI.