> Why not patch dwm to draw the appropriate decorations around windows? > It can't be that difficult to do, and the code base is easy enough to > navigate...
Hi, By patching do you mean configuring some file or actually modifying dwm's code base? Are there any examples out there I could start off with? Many thanks! OP On 19. oktober 2014 at 7:17 PM, "Andrew Gwozdziewycz" <w...@apgwoz.com> wrote: > >On October 19, 2014 1:51:37 PM EDT, orangepri...@hushmail.com >wrote: >>>I don't know why you would want that. >> >>Partly because I want to keep things simple, partly because of >>nostalgia, and partly because I think SGI Irix was coolest thing >ever. > >Why not patch dwm to draw the appropriate decorations around >windows? It can't be that difficult to do, and the code base is >easy enough to navigate... > >>They were about to take over the world with their massive super >>computers and cameo appearances in movies like Jurassic Park. But, >>unfortunately, their leadership failed. > >I, for one, am glad they didn't succeed. More commercial >workstation (and servers for that matter) choices may have slowed >the development for free alternatives (SGI has invested a ton of >money into Linux, especially as it relates to clustering, >however). Think about how Apple's dominance has drawn people away >from GNU/linux and the BSDs (noting of course, that OSX has some >roots in FreeBSD), for instance. > > >> >>On 19. oktober 2014 at 1:36 PM, "Alexander Huemer" >><alexander.hue...@xx.vu> wrote: >>> >>>Hi. >>> >>>On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 01:20:37PM +0000, >>>orangepri...@hushmail.com wrote: >>>> Is there any way to get that old classic SGI Irix look (4Dwm) >in >>>dwm? >>> >>>I don't know why you would want that. >>>In any case, the underlying concepts of dwm do not match the >>>concepts of >>>4DWM. What you can do is use FVWM with a 4DWM[1] theme. >>> >>>Kind regards, >>>-Alex >>> >>>[1] http://4dwm.lumpiarze.nstrefa.pl/
