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1. minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 23:14:17 JST minute

   • joshua stein

   running "progman", a reimplementation of windows 3.1 program manager by @jcs on my A311D MNT Reform (on wayfire via xwayland)

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 23:15:10 JST minute

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     • joshua stein

     @jcs i like the semi flat design of win 3.1 windows, i think the black borders around widgets really help with readability. cool that they indicated all the corners a window could be resized on.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 23:16:09 JST minute

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     • joshua stein

     @jcs here's the source https://github.com/jcs/progman

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 23:18:30 JST minute

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     • joshua stein

     @jcs btw for some reason it didn't work for me as the first WM started in a fresh Xwayland/Xorg. it says "progman: X error (0): BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)". it works if i launch and then kill another WM beforehand (like twm).

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 23:19:29 JST minute

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     • joshua stein

     @jcs neat!

   • joshua stein (jcs@social.jcs.org)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 23:19:33 JST joshua stein

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     @mntmn I made some little programs that are optimized for showing info as a minimized icon:

     https://github.com/jcs/xweathericon
     https://github.com/jcs/xbatticon
     https://github.com/jcs/xcalicon

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 23:20:40 JST minute

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     • joshua stein

     @jcs correction: it does not need another WM beforehand, it just needs at least one existing window, like an xterm.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 23:22:23 JST minute

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     • joshua stein

     @jcs sniff

   • FrostBeast (frostchild@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 05:58:26 JST FrostBeast

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     • joshua stein

     @mntmn @jcs I like the appearance of any windows before 98 for the most part. Call it nostalgia...

     I like what some consider to be primitive graphical designs.