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LesbianLiberty ,

Love the star trek fanfic, very cute that it’s being written on such a system; and I’m amazed that elinks works with lemmy!

unix_joe ,
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I love a good minimalist window manager, but…no xsetroot?

Reva OP ,

I did use xsetroot. That’s why the background is gray and not black.

xsetroot -gray is in my xinitrc.

unix_joe ,
@unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Oh, it looks like the default interlaced X background before a color/image is applied.

Reva OP ,

On my computers, it always starts off as black for some reason.

shertson ,
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Wow, what a blast from the past! Thanks for digging this up

Cris_Color ,
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Love it!

Reva OP ,

Thank you!

Furycd001 ,
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@Reva WindowLab is something I wanted to try back when I originally found it. I never actually did, but if it still works, I maybe still could....

Reva OP ,

It does still work, yeah. Of course it does not afford the luxury of feature richness that many other WMs have, but its unique usage style and look and feel are very much up my alley.

leo85811nardo ,

Wdym distraction free I thought ricing is the biggest distraction

Reva OP ,

For those use cases I have VMs! :)

DmMacniel ,

This looks super retro, I like it. Do you have more of that story or is it still in development?

Reva OP ,

It’s just a short excerpt from a Trek fan work I am working on, but it’s not done yet. :)

DmMacniel ,

Neat :)

How does xedit feel for writing?

Reva OP ,

It’s just what I need honestly, and since it comes included with xorg-apps, I don’t have to install any expansive UI toolkits like GTK or Qt just for a text editor. I usually tend to rely on the standard Xorg apps anyway since they do what I want them to do, look neat with Xlib and all, and don’t require anything useless to be installed on my system. If I want a clock, I use Xclock; if I installed some SuperKaramba clock or whatever I’d get swarmed with dozens of dependencies for things I’d never even need.

I sometimes miss line wrapping but honestly, what else do I need except a place to type text and save it into a file?

AlmightySnoo ,
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It looks like it isn’t maintained anymore, last code commit is from 14 years ago: github.com/nick-gravgaard/windowlab

Reva OP ,

Yeah, still holds up though!

tdawg ,

You don’t have eye strain issues with something so stark?

Reva OP ,

Actually I feel like high-contrast looks are easier on my eyes than low-contrast ones. I look at Solarized or Nord or Catpucchin or whatever the newest low-contrast ones are and I just struggle to look at it. In the meantime, most of my machines have like a background and a foreground, haha.

tdawg ,

Oh yeah no I’m totally with you there. Think I generally like something between the two extremes tho. Something like dracula or (more recently) gruvbox

kyoji ,

I’ve never heard of WindowLab, very cool!

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