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Remembering Kenton Lee.

When I was doing a lot of Xlib programming (and Motif) for fun, I remembered Kenton Lee had a wealth of knowledge.

Sadly, his original website is no more -- and even if it were -- was back in the days of http/ftp.

Although bits of it are mirrored on the wayback machine, that can be a PITA to use.

Using those files and some bits I had from back in the day, I've reconstituted most of Kenton's website:

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/kl-motif-web

I'm also running a mirror of this:

https://xteddy.org/mirror/kentonlee

I think it's historically important enough that I'd like to preserve it in this way, alongside what archive.org are already doing.

It would be interesting to know if Kenton Lee is still with us and whether he has any other motif-related information. If anyone can ascertain his whereabouts, I'd be interested to know!

Cc: @jns / @techokami

#Motif Pour ceux qui seraient bloqués à cette étape du tuto, un indice :

@mos_8502 #Motif IMHO simply wasted a lot of space. I'd rather prefer the aesthetic of #Amiga #intuition or rather of #MagicUserInterface that has been nicely reimplemented as #freeAsInFreedom software by #aros (they called it #Zune)

Wow. Learning about state of the art #server technologies at #oSC26 does not mean state of the art desktop. For a brief moment I have seen that the speaker is using a #motif #desktop:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_Window_Manager

I used that on #SGI and #AIX in the nineties, 25+ years ago :-)

FreeBSD 15 + CDE is probably the closest you can get to sitting in front of a high-end UNIX workstation without owning a time machine.

Running Common Desktop Environment in 2026 feels strangely refreshing. No blur effects, no Electron, no notifications fighting for attention, No ai written code, just Motif, terminals, man pages, and a desktop paradigm that was already mature before I was born.

Current setup: • FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE • CDE • dtwm • bhyve • Motif everywhere

Today’s activity: reading bhyve(4) manuals and pretending I'm a UNIX admin in 1996.

#FreeBSD #BSD #CDE #Unix #Motif #bhyve #OpenSource #UnixPorn #RetroComputing #FOSS

DE: Im Gegensatz zum #Motiv ist die #Zukunft nicht schwarz-weiß, sondern bunt & #erneuerbar! (M)ein kleiner fotografischer Beitrag zu den aktuellen Demos für den weiteren Ausbau #ErneuerbarerEnergien in #Deutschland - gegen rückwärts gewandte Lobbypolitik für Konzerne mit veraltetem Geschäftsmodell durch
Bundesregierung & Wirtschaftsressort. Hier eine #Petition zum Mitzeichnen - aktuell > 272.000 Unterschriften.

Link:
https://dabeisein.gruene.de/forms/katherina-reiche-zerstort-die-energiewende-und-macht-uns-abhangig-rette-die-erneuerbaren-energien-mit-uns

EN: Unlike the #motif, the #future isn’t black and white, but colourful & #renewable! (My) small photographic contribution to the current #demonstrations calling for the further expansion of #renewableenergy in #Germany – against backward-looking lobby politics favouring corporations with outdated business models by
the Federal Government & the Ministry of Economics. Here is a #petition to sign – currently > 272,000 signatures.

#OwnWork
#Windrad
#Windturbine
#Energie
#Energy
#Lowkey
#Photography
#Fotografie
#notAIgenerated
#Pentax
#pentaxk3mkiiimono
#pentax_da2040

@NationalGeographic @photography-NationalGeographic
Nat. Geographic presents 22 #stunning #photos from its archives, curated by M. Tessler from the section #PhotooftheDay. They show #authenticity, #nearness, and the photographic preservation of unusual #fleetingmoments. I think they prove that great photography is not determined by the camera used or the #motif, but by the #photographer's subjective #perception of a scene.
Stefan F. Wirth
Reference https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/photo-of-the-day-march-2026-jazz-japan-flamingos-sloth?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

@flexion
Ah, #cde with #motif big nostalgia.

Une explosion vise l' #ambassade des #Etats-Unis #US en #Norvège, la police évoque un possible #motif #terroriste

https://www.franceinfo.fr/monde/iran/guerre-entre-les-etats-unis-israel-et-l-iran/une-explosion-vise-l-ambassade-des-etats-unis-en-norvege-la-police-evoque-un-possible-motif-terroriste_7853939.html#xtor=CS2-765-[autres]-

This is... *Chef's kiss* they really knew how to market their library in 1997.

https://web.archive.org/web/19970608115017/http://www.mjm.com/Products/MoOLIT/From.html

#retrocomputing #Unix #motif

This is a fascinating time-capsule read about #motif #unix and the early #linux times. It is maybe a little #retrocomputing but not entirely.

https://www.ist.co.uk/motif/interviews/Motif6B/motif_0400.html

I've been playing around a bit with #motif and there's a pile of distro patches (Fedora, Debian, etc) and there's a sourceforge page with pull requests.

No pull requests have ever been accepted, the official ICS bug tracker is offline and looks like has been since 2021.

Who maintains Motif now? Does anyone? Do we need to do an "xorg for Motif" if we want to keep it going?

#retrocomputing #unix

@hp On man... #Motif... I had huge book once about programming in #Motif, it was around 1998.

It is happening!

Is it still #retrocomputing if you can do it today on a modern computer?

#rustlang #motif

Mystery solved: "The problem is that there are two VendorShell widgets. A dummy is provided in the Xt library, but a widget set will rely on its own being referenced. If you mention Xt first, the linker will choose the wrong one.

Motif code will wrongly assume the Motif VendorShell has been class- initialized"

Computers were a mistake.

Linky: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/motif-faq/part9/section-10.html

#motif #x11 #retrocomputing

@jlsksr Wow, he must have been grinding that axe for 30 years! I can't remember the last time I saw #MWM (#Motif window manager)!

@Gammitin

Nice. This used the #CDE desktop, based on #Motif. I did prefer the earlier #OpenWindows / #OpenLook, though. Partially because I was involved in the development of that.

#SunMicrosystems

Red Shack and Boats Reflection Photograph - Motif 1 sky reflections by Jeff Folger (A real New England classic. Motif Number One (#1) is a Rockport Lobster Shack showing its Maritime heritage ) https://print.vistaphotography.com/featured/motif-1-sky-reflections-jeff-folger.html
#Art
#Buyintoart
#RockportMA
#motif

@pixx

#Motif!!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software)

Je serai présent avec des petits formats de mes motifs imprimés en risographie au marché des artistes-x et des créateurs-x-rices de Ressources Urbaines.

Ça se passe à l'ancienne Poste des Charmilles (rue des Charmilles 23, Genève)

Samedi 6 décembre de 17h à 23h et dimanche 7 décembre 2025 : de 11h à 17h (je ne serai pas présent dimanche matin).

C'est déja le week-end prochain !!

https://ressources-urbaines.ch/%e2%9d%84%ef%b8%8e-marche-des-artistes%c2%b7x-et-createurs%c2%b7x%c2%b7rices-%e2%9d%84%ef%b8%8e/

#motif #patern #risographie #riso #artisanat #art #ressourcesUrbaines #geneve