I hope this is okay to post since it is somewhat different to my other setup, but this is my writing/chatting/free time computer.

It runs WindowLab, a very cool window manager by Rick Nick Gravgaard; along with XEdit, XClock, irssi and Elinks.

  • LesbianLiberty [she/her]English
    2•2 years ago

    Love the star trek fanfic, very cute that it’s being written on such a system; and I’m amazed that elinks works with lemmy!

  • DreamButtEnglish
    4•2 years ago

    You don’t have eye strain issues with something so stark?

    • @Reva@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      Actually I feel like high-contrast looks are easier on my eyes than low-contrast ones. I look at Solarized or Nord or Catpucchin or whatever the newest low-contrast ones are and I just struggle to look at it. In the meantime, most of my machines have like a #000000 background and a #FF0000 foreground, haha.

      • DreamButtEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        Oh yeah no I’m totally with you there. Think I generally like something between the two extremes tho. Something like dracula or (more recently) gruvbox

  • macniel
    3•2 years ago

    This looks super retro, I like it. Do you have more of that story or is it still in development?

        • @Reva@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
          3•2 years ago

          It’s just what I need honestly, and since it comes included with xorg-apps, I don’t have to install any expansive UI toolkits like GTK or Qt just for a text editor. I usually tend to rely on the standard Xorg apps anyway since they do what I want them to do, look neat with Xlib and all, and don’t require anything useless to be installed on my system. If I want a clock, I use Xclock; if I installed some SuperKaramba clock or whatever I’d get swarmed with dozens of dependencies for things I’d never even need.

          I sometimes miss line wrapping but honestly, what else do I need except a place to type text and save it into a file?

  • Furycd001
    1•2 years ago

    @Reva WindowLab is something I wanted to try back when I originally found it. I never actually did, but if it still works, I maybe still could…

    • @Reva@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      It does still work, yeah. Of course it does not afford the luxury of feature richness that many other WMs have, but its unique usage style and look and feel are very much up my alley.

  • unix_joeEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    I love a good minimalist window manager, but…no xsetroot?

    • @Reva@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      I did use xsetroot. That’s why the background is gray and not black.

      xsetroot -gray is in my xinitrc.

      • unix_joeEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        Oh, it looks like the default interlaced X background before a color/image is applied.

  • Shertson
    2•2 years ago

    Wow, what a blast from the past! Thanks for digging this up