[ale] Party like it is 1995

[Jim Kinney]

My bad. It's tkdesk. Found a link.

http://terasaur.org/item/show/tkdesk-1-2/5775
On Jun 6, 2016 5:41 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> I may have my original CDE disk buried somewhere. I found my redhat 4.2 I
> bought and installed after getting sick of win nt 3.51 crashing hourly.
>
> The desktop I want back was tkdesktop. Written in tcl/tk and sporting a
> very 3D look, it was a view of an office with desk, file drawers, cabinet,
> phone. Directories were literally manila, 3 tab folders. Click to open and
> see sheets of typed paper for text documents, table sheets for spreadsheets
> (sc was the default) and more folders. Click a drawer to open it, the drag
> (wireframe) of folder to drawer to put away.
> On Jun 6, 2016 5:30 PM, "Chris Fowler" <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> *From: *"Jim Kinney" <jkinney at jimkinney.us>
>> *To: *"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>, "Chris Fowler" <
>> cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
>> *Sent: *Monday, June 6, 2016 5:09:56 PM
>> *Subject: *Re: [ale] Party like it is 1995
>>
>> Bwahahaha!
>>
>> Used to launch xroach on other people's displays by hacking their bashrc
>> file
>>
>>
>> Got the idea thinking about showing my daughter the good ole days eh?
>>
>> I can't find xbear.  xeyes works.
>>
>> There is a modern project for CDE.  I built it on Ubuntu 15.10 last
>> night.  I've used it all day.  I rely so much on Unity.
>>
>> I'll switch between Chrome and gnome-terminal all day.  That involves me
>> just clicking on the left panel.  In Zimbra when I send email it creates a
>> popup.  That can be accessed by clicking the Chrome icon on the left panel.
>>
>> No such thing I know of in CDE.  For xterm I found something cool called
>> tabbed.  Any program that supports Xembed will work.  I can take vanilla
>> xterm and make it tabbed.  Put it on its own workspace.
>>
>> Out of the box there are no hotkeys to change workspace.  I added that to
>> dtwmrc.  I'll try later.   With chrome on one and tabbed xterm on another
>> that should work.  When either are maximized there is no clock.  I never
>> realized how often I check my clock.  I tried xclock, but there seems to be
>> no option to pin it.   I could pin it to the lower right if I could.
>>
>> One solution on the left panel could be to simple resize Chrome and then
>> I'll see those icons on the desktop.  Problem is that only programs that
>> are minimized have those.  Amazingly Google is light on sources.  It may be
>> odd, but I may have better luck finding one to compile in my attic tha on
>> Google. LoL.
>>
>>
>>
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