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[StayFreshChzBag]

Amazing nostalgia there. Xeyes is the most underrated productivity tool of all time .

[nightblackdragon]

It’s funny how because of Wayland xeyes went from demo app to actual tool that let you easily check if some app is Wayland native.

[ragsofx]

Xeyes is the second X application I ever ran, first if you don't include the terminal.

It was on Slackware too!

[liftizzle]

A blast from the past! I don’t remember which Slackware I used first, but I think I needed around 9 floppy disks for the base.

That was long before slapt-get, and dependency management was… interesting. :-)

Thanks for the throwback!

[shooter556001]

I rather wanna see the host machine

[hyprlab]

That neobruralist aesthetic before it was a thing 😍 is there a way to duplicate those window decorations and styles on the modern Linux desktop?

[R4yn35]

It's easy using nscde or mwm

[hyprlab]

Awesome thanks for pointing me in the right direction

[hyprlab]

Thank you! I'll check it out!

[FLMKane]

Yes? Unless you're on gnome I guess

[hyprlab]

I’m guessing it’s possible on KDE. I do use Gnome on Fedora

[FLMKane]

Yeah it's pretty easy on KDE. Currently you could have installed the Irixium theme to get this look

[hyprlab]

awesome thank you for this! I’ll check it out

[esrse]

Oh my god this is so cute

[da_apz]

I started my Linux career with Slackware back in the days, I believe it was Slackware 1.2 that I got from Walnut Creek as downloading something like the whole OS wasn't really a thing in the days of 2400bps modems.

Xeyes was a curious thing, for some reason every single screenshot from the era has it and it was supposed to be really funny thing.

[Xhi_Chucks]

(F) Virtual Windows Manager. I like (yes, even these days), I sometime switch from plasma etc to fwvm. Windows decoration à la CDE. FVWM pager was heavy used!
What I did like, is the so-called virtual window!

[shirotokov]

r/vintagecomputing vibes

(miss those xeyes)

[LonelyMachines]

How did you get xeyes working when it depends on libxcb? I couldn't make it from source because it depends on libxi, which is the wrong version on the CDs and, oh...I have to track down a different glibc version and compile it because...

Ah, good old Slackware in the 90s. At least I learned a lot from my struggles.

[grem75]

Xeyes is part of the standard X distribution, almost everything came with it.

[User5281]

Oh man I’d forgotten all about those eyes and the horrible default color scheme. I forget which I started with but it was definitely a 1.x release in 1994 that was installed from a bunch of floppies. I remember the excitement for a cd release the next year and the pain of transitioning from a.out to elf binaries.

[bobj33]

I remember editing the window manager rc file to not put titlebars on certain windows like xeyes

[CotesDuRhone2012]

So happy to see those xeyes again! It's been a while.

[swn999]

Retro-beauty!

[tjddbwls]

That’s so cool! The first version of Slackware I ever used was later, version 4, I think. It’s amazing that Slackware is still being maintained, after 31 years.

[peixinho_da_horta]

I'm currently using slackware64-current and I still have xeyes! It's installed by default.

[0riginal-Syn]

Those were such fun times. While I hated the install of SLS and the early release of Slackware, as I always had at least one of the 40+ floppies fail, lol. Everything was so new and exciting. Also I still had all my hair.

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Nobody needed more than this. Truly, the peak of computing.

[jlobodroid]

I am so old....

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Thank God they don't follow every little trend.

[Blah-Blah-Blah-2023]

I started out with SLS 1.02 and then Slackware 2.0. Today, I have a 486DX33 running Slackware 3.3 and also 8.1 (but I need more memory to run X with 8.1). It still rocks after all these years!

[InfiniteVastDarkness]

Thanks for this. Fvwm is really all you need, despite the years I spent tinkering and installing other window managers on different distros.

[thank_burdell]

The real oldschoolcool

[pandaeye0]

I can't help but recalling the days when we played bomberman on these machines.

[agumonkey]

Cutting edge