Please give all the weird, out there desktop environments you know of. I want to experiment with all the strangest stuff.
Enlightenment is as weird as it gets unless we are counting mobile shells
MaXX Interactive Desktop
PaperWM
>>102223013I just realized that I should also mention that NsCDE uses fvwm as its backend, but you can also use fvwm as a standalone
>>102223013Has anyone tried using these DEs with a different font? Are the fonts hardcided? Is the main thing that dethers me from trying it.
>>102223393NsCDE has a font selector right in the main settings menu
Equinox Desktop Environment (EDE)
>>102223013I've always liked toms window manager
KDE Liquidshell
there was this nice little page showing off different window managers back in the mid to late 90surl must have been something like www.domain.tld/~xwin/, iirc. anyone here still remember it?it's completely impossible to make post-2006 google find anything anymore.. especially for a page that may or may not be alive anymore
>>102223013HackMatrix https://github.com/collinalexbell/HackMatrix
>>102223013>>102223045>cdeLinux already had a standard ui toolkit from cde why didn't we just keep improving on that instead of fragmenting between GTK and Qt?
https://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/
>>102225303Motif was closed source until 2012 so they made KDE. But Qt was closed until 2000 so they also made Gnome
>>102223989how have i never heard of this
>>102225352Ah I didn't know that. Makes sense.
>>102224343Not what you're talking about, but I stumbled upon this one some time ago: https://guidebookgallery.org/guis/
>>102226260neat, thanks anonone of guidebook's links got me to toastytech's gui site, which in turn had a link to the site I was thinking of among its collection>http://www.plig.org/~xwinman/it seems to be dead since nearly a decade, but the waybackmachine had it archivedI'm just glad there's a bunch of these kind of sites still around. these hyperfocused corners of the world wide web is what made the old internet so great..
>>102223013gnome
>>102227347You will be punished for this post
>>102223013>*makes you're desktop more common*nothing personnel
>>102223045wtf this looks amazing. Gonna try it now
>>102223045based
>>102225350>>102224469imagine what a nightmare it would be using these together
>>102223013
inb4>that's not obscurewdym everyone installs openshell or an equivalent.
>>102230431idk if is just indulced nostalgia (even tho i didnt live these times)but these old looks are amazing.
>>102223013Any of them that are focused on keyboard first users?
>>102225417I never hear about it either until I saw a thread here about it just a couple days ago
around this parts any desktop that isn't slathered with gross trannime is "osbscure"
More herehttps://xteddy.org/xwinman/olvwm.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TwmI've literally never heard anyone talk about this one on /g/
IceWM
>>102231788The reason is that twm was quickly superceded by tvtwm.Both did the job but were a bit primitive.
window maker>>102223045proprietary slop
Trinity is kind of obscure I guessthere's also that KDE 1 fork
>>102231455trvth
>>102232530also found out there's a KDE 4 fork called Katana
>>102231455>>102232545You both are welcome to post some actually obscure ones then. I'm waiting.
>>102232530>Trinity is kind of obscure I guessPerhaps, but still nice.
>>102234228What OS?
>>102234237Symbos. It is written in Z80 assembly.
>>102234228better than waylandloonix needs hundreds of megabytes of ram minimum to have a windowing system and a gui toolkit
>>102234228This is the sort of thing I started this thread to find.
>>102223989>>102225417Its from my timelinehttps://desuarchive.org/_/search/boards/g.desu.meta/text/alternative%20timeline%20FOSS/In the timeline that bruce3434 and I come from KDE liquid shell is a standard and well more developed; though it does contain bugs still teehee.>>102231943how do i change the wallpaper on icewm>>102234228I'm not sure if this is pixel art or real>>102232744I here about trinity all damn day. it is not obscure just not popular and my xfce setup is meant to give me the trinity feel without using trinity.
>>102234769In that case I can also offer this 6502 alternative (also in assembly):https://atari8.co.uk/gui/It is worth pondering what people can du with 8-bit processors clocked at a few MHz with about 64 KB RAM,
>>102234834>I'm not sure if this is pixel art or realIt is real:http://www.symbos.de/
>>102223154There's also fvwm95
mlvwm
>>102235929and the MacOS 8 theme
>>102235929>>102235940>>102235114>>102234901>>102223605COMFY AF
>>102235114>>102235929>>102235940YEEEEEEEEEESSSAlso honorable mention for Chicago95 even though it isn't a desktop environment.
>>102223605Is this the one that uses fltk?
JWM
>>102236173>Chicago95Looks like absolute shit compared to fvwm95
Sun's News Hyperlook. So obscure that you can only get dodgy photographs of it.
>>102223013>I want to experiment with all the strangest stuffbet you want to experiment with all the strangest porn and different genders as well, freetard trannystop wasting time on garbage
>>102240819Why are you like this?
>>102240928>That which is repressed is projected
>>102223013Q4OSIt has plasma and trinity options, based off plebian, been around for a hot minute, not nearly as popular as some others.Worth a glance if curious, mainable too.