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Wow that Metro-X configurator is really nice. Messing with XFree on Slackware was a nightmare.
by pram 2y ago
Wow that Metro-X configurator is really nice. Messing with XFree on Slackware was a nightmare.
- giantrobot 2y agoA commercial X server was often worth the price of admission for a boxed copy of Rehat or SuSE. That and a copy of StarOffice. IIRC SuSE 6.x boxes came with a personal license for AcceleratedX and RedHat 5.x and 6.x came with MetroX licenses. They still had XF86 available but I believe defaulted to the proprietary servers. Seeing the XF86Setup screenshot evoked bad memories of inscrutable setup sessions that I was always worried would burn out my monitor.
- nxobject 2y agoCommerical X servers were really something, especially those without an academic/FOSS heritage. Desqview/X [1] was one of those "DOS plus a UI and multitasking" OSes that competed with Windows 2/3.x and GEOS/PC, that windowed with... you guess it, the power of Motif and X. I think twm was the original window manager that came with it, and you could run emulated DOS instances and Windows sessions in X terminal emulators. [1] https://lunduke.substack.com/p/desqviewx-the-forgotten-mid-1990s https://lunduke.substack.com/p/desqviewx-the-forgotten-mid-1...
- lizknope 2y agoI remember setting multiple modelines and cycling through them with ctrl + alt + plus/minus Then the monitor would freak out and start buzzing on the high resolution modeline that didn't quite work so you would switch away and go back to tweaking it. It took me a while to get my first monitor to run at 1280x1024 @72Hz I later had some Mitsubishi 21" monitors and got them to run at 2048x1536 @75Hz My old desk still has a permanent bend to it from those two because they were so heavy.