Re: [dev] SGI Irix look (4Dwm)

2014-10-23 Thread orangeprince
Hi Peter, Thanks a lot for this well-written, detailed explanation. I totally understand your reluctance, and to be honest, some of it has rubbed off on me as well. I'm still going to push on through with this though. As a teenager I was blessed enough to work with the SGI Cray supercomputers,

Re: [dev] SGI Irix look (4Dwm)

2014-10-21 Thread orangeprince
> Why not patch dwm to draw the appropriate decorations around windows? > It can't be that difficult to do, and the code base is easy enough to > navigate... Hi, By patching do you mean configuring some file or actually modifying dwm's code base? Are there any examples out there I could start

Re: [dev] SGI Irix look (4Dwm)

2014-10-19 Thread orangeprince
> Why not patch dwm it to draw the appropriate decorations around windows? It > can't be that difficult to do, and the code base is easy enough to > navigate... Thanks, I'll look into it. > I, for one, am glad they didn't succeed. More commercial workstations may > have slowed the developme

Re: [dev] SGI Irix look (4Dwm)

2014-10-19 Thread orangeprince
>I don't know why you would want that. Partly because I want to keep things simple, partly because of nostalgia, and partly because I think SGI Irix was coolest thing ever. They were about to take over the world with their massive super computers and cameo appearances in movies like Jurassic Pa

[dev] SGI Irix look (4Dwm)

2014-10-19 Thread orangeprince
Hi, Is there any way to get that old classic SGI Irix look (4Dwm) in dwm? Thanks! Ref.: http://sgistuff.net/software/irixintro/ http://neowin.net/forum/topic/1230329-will-windows-9-reintroduce-the-classic-theme/page-2#entry596586645