On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:42 PM, <orangeprince_AT_hushmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?
dwm supports changing colors around, but that's not going to get you
close to where I think you want to be. You'd have to learn how dwm
draws stuff and modify the source. Luckily for you, dwm is like 2,000
lines of fairly readable C, and not all that complicated.
I haven't looked, but you might also find a patch to get you started
here:
http://dwm.suckless.org/patches/
> On 19. oktober 2014 at 7:17 PM, "Andrew Gwozdziewycz" <web_AT_apgwoz.com> wrote:
>>
>>On October 19, 2014 1:51:37 PM EDT, orangeprince_AT_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.huemer_AT_xx.vu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Hi.
>>>>
>>>>On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 01:20:37PM +0000,
>>>>orangeprince_AT_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/
>
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