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WOW! mralk3. That's way cool! I'm about to order a Pine64 smartphone. Wouldn't it be great to have a SlackPhone? I'll probably be stuck with Manjaro for awhile though it seems
Everything on their site is sold out. I want a Pinebook Pro, but I cannot justify the wait and the shipping. I have my 2 4 laptops, several raspberry pi's, some orange pi's and the RockPro64, which is plenty. Maybe time to get rid of some old hardware or repurpose it, haha. A Slackphone does sound great though.
Just 2 days ago update -current with 5.11.x kernel and KDE with my preffered now graphite black windows theme and paphyrus icon theme. I like new (old?) application menu for KDE. I would say rather very classical. Which is for me good sign. Why it still Slackware 14.2? I would prefer kind of Slackware 15.0 beta.
Edit: Icon theme is named papirus not paphyrus, sorry.
I recently installed this, omitting KDE and Xfce packages. For files, other than core utilities, I installed rox-filer, an old favorite. I may also experiment with xfe again, or perhaps emelfm2. Terminal by urxvt. Window management by windowmaker, of course.
Yeah, it's always had a timeless feel to me. The main place it shows its age are the preferences/dialogs, where the WINGs UI widgets weren't designed for hidpi screens.
I use fvwm now, but I've always liked how WM's square app tiles look.
And another Windowmaker with an addition. You can see fluxter works with Windowmaker. I would have it running so I can what items are active on other desktops. You can get it here sourceforge. I forgot how nice Windowmaker can be.
Last edited by jmccue; 03-21-2021 at 11:21 AM.
Reason: typos
I recently installed this, omitting KDE and Xfce packages. For files, other than core utilities, I installed rox-filer, an old favorite. I may also experiment with xfe again, or perhaps emelfm2. Terminal by urxvt. Window management by windowmaker, of course.
As beautiful as Enlightenment can be, I always found it buggy and bloated. Mind you I haven not tried it recently, and never on Slackware. Maybe time to experiment again...
Nice, I like that. Upon further usage, I currently have this: windowmaker, apps featuring: urxvt, seamonkey, xfe file manager in two pane mode, xfi image viewer (that comes with xfe), xcalc. I've been using imagemagick tools for screenshots these days, therefore foregoing the need to install scrot or similar in place of the usual DE tools for screenshots from KDE or Xfce. I know imagemagick is a huge untapped resource, so I'm trying to learn more of that.
Next steps include adding inkscape and scribus, amongst others.
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