Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

But first, sleep.

✨ 🌙 Good night 🌌 ✨

I'm getting desklaunch and deskmenu mixed up. Note to self: See about patching desklaunch to never open ~/.desklaunchrc for writing. Why does it even need to, when its comments & readme explicitly tell users to throw a text editor at the rc?

I remember the age when doing this, adding between a few hundred and a few thousand kilobytes (KB), was considered reckless desktop bloat.

How far we've come, when it's not considered bloat unless it's measured in gigabytes, six orders of magnitude larger.

Well, I suppose I could keep deskmenu for when I'm too lazy to hold down the scroll wheel, and I could also use dmenu for when I'm too lazy even to take a hand off the keyboard.

Wait a minute. If I'm going to use wmx as my window manager, I don't really need a separate desktop menu application, no matter how lightweight.

I can put shell scripts and symlinks in ~/.wmx/ with subdirectories dictating submenu arrangement (and `ln -s .. <submenu-name>` to have a navigation aid), then middle-click-hold to access them in organized menu form! Whatever's there that has +x set gets menu-fied.

All right, practical desktop minimalism is a go!

Oh. It does have a homepage: https://www.oroborus.org/

Interestingly enough, both the source code downloads and the changelog links are from Debian's repo.

Also, because the site hasn't been updated in almost seven years, some of the links have gone stale.

One edit of the Makefile, and it works. And it's as destructively buggy with its rc file as I remember it being.

Has anyone made a Mastodon instance for shouting where, like at dolphin.town you can only post the letter E, you can only post the letter A?

@squirrel Same. Does this mean folks serious about accessibility tend to be a11y allies?

Crap, another package I want turns out to be another piece of abandonware I have to swipe from Debian: desklaunch. The Makefile is a fixer-upper, but there's only a single C file to compile, and the manpage was written by a Debian maintainer, not the author.

Oops. xcal's today pane is the upper-left square. The other two squares are xclock and xload.

I don't expect it matters to too many other people, but I'm excited and happy. Anyway, a screenie (croppped) of xcal running and partly customized on my PC: https://computerfairi.es/media/W40bNZdWr2Bhudlybqw

(My window manager is x11-wm/wmx.)

@nachobra Not everyone here is a programmer, believe it or not. Computers are magical things even before programming comes into play. :3

It built, it installed, and it works exactly on my new FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE #Unix PC like it did on my old Debian Jessie #Linux PC!

Have the fruits of my labor: http://files.thornton2.com/packages/unix/xcal-4.1-patched-for-freebsd.tar.gz

Inside is the unpatched xcal 4.1 source tarball from Debian Sid (as of last week), my patch file, and my notes for applying the patch.

(Packages screenies & desc: https://screenshots.debian.net/package/xcal )

@softgoat I use $HOME/bin for my personal run-anywhere programs (even though most of them are shell scripts), and I have `PATH=${PATH}:~/bin` in my ~/.shrc and ~/.bashrc files so I can run them anywhere.

(Also, no, because I set DESTDIR to my staging directory name, I didn't run `make install` as root.)

@softgoat As far as I can tell, it's because everything in GTK3 went overboard with padding in the default. I noticed it with simple form buttons in the most recent Firefox on Raspbian, and I haven't even looked into better GTK3 themes yet.