I prefer EMWM; with XFile, Classic-Colors, Nedit-XFT, XImaging... it's like an-almost-CDE without the panel, or like the Irix desktop but without being bloated

I prefer EMWM; with XFile, Classic-Colors, Nedit-XFT, XImaging... it's like an-almost-CDE without the panel, or like the Irix desktop but without being bloated like Maxx, and it's 100% free as in freedom software. XPDF can complete a bit the feeling (the old v3 release) and if you are a C programmer with experience, a dumb interface for MPV with XEmbed. For Gopher browsers there's XMosaic but it's still propietary, a shame. XGopher might do far better if you link-LD_PRELOAD it against Xaw3D, which can be Motif-ish, or at least a bit closer to that era, or an alpha Motif build of Netsurf. https://github.com/revmadison/netsurf-motif https://github.com/revmadison/netsurf-motif As for IM'img, any IRC client written against Lesstif will do the trick building it against OpenMotif. https://sourceforge.net/projects/nebula-irc/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/nebula-irc/ Then you can just use Bitlbee as a bridge to anything. On word processor, Ted against Motif can do really well; I could even use the Spanish translation with Metric sized toolbars and such. Ditto with xfig with 'xfig -metric'. Not Motif, but it matches the environment, kinda like GV for PostScript files. Or Emacs with Org-Mode. Emacs linked against Motif will look perfect under EMWM and you'll get: - A Mail/Usenet client - An IRC client - Telegram client with Telega - A gopher/gemini client (Elpher) - NNRSS and another builtin RSS reader - OFC, both handle podcasts fine - File manager with SSH and rclone support - A Z-machine interpreter to play text adventures (Malyon) - Video/music player thru EMMS - Org-Mode/Org-Agenda-Org-Babel and friends - Emacs' builtin spreadsheet - pdf-tools to read and anotate PDF's. - M-x calc with Gnuplot for plots - Nov.el to read Ebooks. For GTK and QT themes, you can use the CDE theme for GTK and the builting one for QT with qt5ct/qt6ct and set EXPORT QT_PLATFORM_THEME=qt5ct to /etc/profile.d/qt5.sh and chmod +x 'ing it. The are similar XDG and GTK/Themes icons at https://gnome-loook.org https://gnome-loook.org and the like called 'CDE' which are great. Decompress them at ~/.icons and use lxapperance to chage your GTK theme. https://www.pling.com/p/1920644/ https://www.pling.com/p/1920644/ It needs JS; but I can just posts a TGZ in my gopher site with both the themes and icons if you like them, or better, with Bittorrent, then aria2c would do the job.