The first thing you need to ask is, are you using Xorg or Wayland? I will assume you are on X11 because I think most major distros still use it by default, but this is going to be changing soon. If you are using Wayland, ricing it uses a totally different set of tools.

The package manager of most major Linux distros let you install an alternative desktop environment. For example, if you are using Ubuntu with the default Gnome desktop, you could install Xfce using the command apt install xubuntu-desktop. Then logout, and in the screen where you type your password, select the Xfce desktop environment from the menu, and login again. Now you have your new desktop environment running the xfwm4 window manager.

You don’t need Xfce desktop, but it is usually easier for beginners to customize than rolling your own desktop environment. Once you figure out Xfce ricing, you can try rolling your own.

An alternative to Xfce which is also very customizable is KDE Plasma, but they configure everything through their own internal tooling.

If you are using Xorg under Xfce, then from there you can install alternative window managers like i3, Awesome-WM, OpenBox, and so on. Most of the time you install this from the package manager. Most X11 window managers let you switch the current window manager from the command line. For example, to switch to OpenBox, in a terminal type openbox --replace. Any existing windows you have open will stay open but their decorations will change, and so will the wallpaper (probably).

Then you can install alternative window manager themes and icon packs from GitHub, or websites like https://www.xfce-look.org/browse/. Be aware that OpenBox may not be able to use all the themes that Xfwm4 can use. As always, read the manual.

Finally, you can install other desktop tools like Conky, Rofi, Kitty terminal, btop, Tint2 Panel.

For an Angry Birds clone, check out Apple Flinger

For a SimCity-like game, check out OpenTTD (Transport Tycoon Deluxe)

Not sarcastic, I genuinely like this sort of thing. To each their own.

Thanks! I just tried it out, it looks nice! I’ll stick with it for a bit.

That looks like artwork from The Lispy Gopher Show. I love it!

EDIT: yep, artwork by Tomas Prahou a.k.a. @pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org .

That might work if I re-bound the split-window function to launch a new Emacs client, because this is the function that most other Emacs functions use to split the frame into windows.

But I think a better approach would be to just add a single rule function into the display-buffer-alist that always asks for a new frame no matter what the input is.

Mickey Peterson wrote an article on how Emacs manages its own windows, and the Elisp Manual on Windows is pretty good too.

Yes! Emacs has already taken over most of my desktop environment apps with the exception of the web browser and a few apps like Blender and Gimp. I haven’t gone as far as you, getting each Emacs buffer to display in its own frame in is own WM-level window, but that would make for a more immersive experience. Also, your color scheme is similar to the one I use now. I love it.

I can’t wait for the day when software written in Lisp takes over my window manager, then my panel, then my session manager, then my whole operating system kernel.

Is that icon theme available outside of Haiku OS?

I like it! What I would have done differently: use the original colors, the deep blue color for the window decoration in Windows 98 is quite different from the color you are using. Also I would use a green wallpaper of a shade closer to the default on Windows 95/98, and an icon theme with beige and yellow icons.

I have actually been wanting to do something like this with the old Mac OS 7 “Platinum” theme, modernizing it for Xfce so it looks like the old Mac OS 7 in spirit, but not exactly like Mac OS 7 the way most immitation Platinum themes try to do.

I have never tried Farsi in Gnome, but it looks like Gnome supports it quite well!

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I saw the “502 Gateway” HTTP error message, but I never even closed my browser tab. I refreshed again today and Lemmy.ml was back online! Thanks for your hard work!

Nyxt is Common Lisp bindings to WebKit, so not exactly a Chromium fork, but uses the same web rendering and JavaScript engine as Chromium. The important thing is that you can program it using Common Lisp as well as JavaScript.

Woah, woah, woah… there is a Wayland compositor called DWL and a status bard called DTao that can be scripted using Guile Scheme?! Holy shit!

Now I know exactly what I am going to do as soon as my Linux distro swtiches over to Wayland.

And kudos also for using Nyxt and Emacs. The Lisp runs strong in this one.

Yeah, Trump was big into genocide too, of the Yemenese. He personally vetoed a bipartisan resolution passed by congress to condemn the Saudis for their genocide in Yemen

But then we see the genocide of the Palestinians by Israel happening right now, and Biden not only enthusiastically reiterates his support for Israel but works to punishe anyone showing support and solidarity with the victims.

And that is why Biden is polling so low right now.

I thuoght at first you somehow got the Terminus font to work in you terminal emulator and lemonbar or whatever panel thing you are using.

I took a closer look at your dotfiles and found it was this “spleen” font, which looks really nice! I might try that one out for myself!

(Reads your Neocities page)

I’m Currently Learning : Common Lisp, Clojure, & StumpWM.

Ask Me About : OpenBSD, Gentoo, Ricing *NIX, Music Theory, & Calculators.

Cool! Well, I am just going to have to follow you on Mastodon then! I’ll might just ask you about those things.

No.

Well, OK, yes we can talk about it, but you’re buying the beer.

And yes, tiling windows in KDE it is pretty good. But I would prefer the option of having a toggle on window decorations (unless there is one, but I missed it). I prefer my tiling windows to be undecorated, and my floating windows to be decorated.

Ha, nice try. It’s still beautiful.

Exactly. I’m an atheist and electronics geek, but I am torn between Radio Shack and Jesus. I bet Jesus could effectively organize a world-wide general strike that completely overthrows capitalism and replaces it with a dictatorship of the proletariat so fast it would make Jeff Bezos’ head spin and pop off.

As long as I am fantasizing, I’ll bet if Radio Shack came back, they would start selling Framework laptops to ordinary consumers and kick-start a market of DIY mobile computing platforms from laptops to cell phones to TV sets to home rack-mount servers running fediverse services all built with standardized parts and overthrow the consumerist electronic appliance market.

Nice job theming! This is the first time I am hearing about Firefox Cascade, looks really cool!