#4dwm — Public Fediverse posts

I've been an #fvwm user for a long time (early 2000's) and I've always appreciated it being more configurable than any other window manager out there.

But lately, there's been a few excellent scriptable window managers popping up that have it beat. After many random attempts, I've finally switched the main desktop to #awesomewm

The biggest challenge has been how to make it not look so darn flat. I like my #cde / #motif / #4dwm / whatever style borders, so getting that implemented in awesomewm took me an embarrassingly long time, but the fact that I was able to do it, is certainly a testament to it's customizability.

Video of what it looks like:

https://toobnix.org/w/a2fuZ7zcdWfESMvfbigN3U

#gopher post with details: gopher://gopher.linkerror.com/0/phlog/2026/20260520

git repo: https://linkerror.com/git/jns/awesomewm_config/src/branch/main/

I've been an #fvwm user for a long time (early 2000's) and I've always appreciated it being more configurable than any other window manager out there.

But lately, there's been a few excellent scriptable window managers popping up that have it beat. After many random attempts, I've finally switched the main desktop to #awesomewm

The biggest challenge has been how to make it not look so darn flat. I like my #cde / #motif / #4dwm / whatever style borders, so getting that implemented in awesomewm took me an embarrassingly long time, but the fact that I was able to do it, is certainly a testament to it's customizability.

Video of what it looks like:

https://toobnix.org/w/a2fuZ7zcdWfESMvfbigN3U

#gopher post with details: gopher://gopher.linkerror.com/0/phlog/2026/20260520

git repo: https://linkerror.com/git/jns/awesomewm_config/src/branch/main/

@tarek @mroach That #SGI #IRIX #CD player app took me right back

#SiliconGraphics #retrocomputing #Unix #workstation #4Dwm #Motif #XWindows #MIPS

@tarek @mroach That #SGI #IRIX #CD player app took me right back

#SiliconGraphics #retrocomputing #Unix #workstation #4Dwm #Motif #XWindows #MIPS