2026-09-28 18:17 UTC
MotifCentral: all things Motif/Xt/Xlib
Over the last few days and weeks or so, a few of the people I follow and interact with on Fedi have been talking about centralising information, tools, applications, and expertise from the Motif (and Xt, Xlib, and X11) ecosystem. There's a ton of information, resources, and actively maintained applications out there, but it's all spread out and sometimes difficul
https://www.osnews.com/story/146041/motifcentral-all-things-motif-xt-xlib/
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@techokami@woof.tech 2026-09-28 19:25
@osnews@mstdn.social FINALLY something I'm involved in got coverage on OSNews :blobfoxfloofcute:
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@claudiom@bsd.network 2026-10-01 01:44
@osnews@mstdn.social I always had a fondness for Motif widgets, even if it was FVWM back in my early Linux days. I find Motif to be gorgeous. I actually have KDE Plasma set up to use a Motif-like theme for the window decoration called Commonality, and I tweaked the colors to have a green look. I also played around a bit with EMWM, but haven't really gotten around to get it working as I'd like. Commonality theme for KDE Plasma: https://www.opencode.net/phob1an/commonality EMWM: https://fastestcode.org/emwm.html