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I would love to write a small program (maybe called ThrowbackFriday) that on Friday afternoon would kill my X11 window manager and randomly select a window mana
by KMag 5y ago
I would love to write a small program (maybe called ThrowbackFriday) that on Friday afternoon would kill my X11 window manager and randomly select a window manager popular in the late 90s, or a wm emulating the Win95 look and feel. It should also fire up a music player skinned to look like WinAmp and play some GnR, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Pearl Jam, REM, Nirvana, Men Without Hats, Toto, Chumbawumba, Hootie and The Blowfish, etc.
Did anyone else remember using twm window manager with Java Swing apps in the early 2000s? Most window managers would ignore nonsense commands to resize windows down to 0x0 pixels, but twm would oblige. I ran twm with 1 px borders and no window menus (to maximize screen real estate), so I needed to watch the redraw carefully to get a good idea at my starting point for a game of "hunt the pixel" to find the 2x2 pixel border and drag the window back to my desired size. I played "hunt the pixel" much more often than actual games.
Ideally, ThrowbackFriday would be configurable where you'd give it a year range to emulate.