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TWM - Tab Window Manager or Tom's Window Manager

Not much to say, first window manager for X, still available as default for OpenBSD (gosh, again). I found websites which describe how to theme and tweak TWM to make it looking/working more modern:
https://www.cpcnw.co.uk/twm/twmrc.htm
https://www ...

Just hoping that someone else will find that interesting and try it on their own, especially as an idea for OCC. IMO it is good choice as Gopher GUI browser for OpenBSD (I know about Lagrange, but this one more corresponds to olden times).

tekk wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 1:58 pm I'm actually astounded that it didn't compile with the stock C compiler. Nice work, though!

Ackchually I made quick test and built it against Clang instead of GCC and just works (TM). One dependency less.

So the story begins few hours ago when I was looking for tiles to set them up as wallpaper (more fun than real life) and I came across this website: https://www.dvd3000.ca/tek/ . I found there instruction how to compile hacked version of NCSA Mosaic web browser - here . It did not look complicated ...

Sick thing, thank you!

(3) The best reliable option is to get real, old hardware (also due to the fact that new CPUs are still faster in single thread than old CPUs).


This point is actually backwards if we're talking laptops. I ran into that issue in one of my experiments: my T480 would clock down to 400 mhz and ...

What? Why are laughing at me?

Section "how" of OCC explains that to limit RAM one should put "machine mem =512M" into boot.conf, but this does not seem to be respected what was pointed out by Solene and I checked that also on my own. Few things on this case:
(1) In /etc/login.conf user's class can have changed to datasize-max to ...

Idea for challenge - change user agent in your browser to "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/gptbot)" and try to surf web through a week.

Returning to other examples, let's look here.

Chicago95 Theme for XFCE

If you do not want spend too many time on assembling desktop setup, you can use Chicago95 theme for XFCE. It looks really nice, but that "Start menu"...looks like fusion of menu from Win95, WinXP and Win10. Available from ...