- What it is
A minimal, windows 95-esque application launcher… with fancy directory icons over binary name suggestions, mouse support (you can doubleclick a binary name to run it) and a real-time clock on the far lower right.
- Why
Nostalgia… and a “futureproof” likeness (If both X11 and wayland gets ditched/replaced for whatever reason… this will still work as intended.). Also, due to how it works on both X11 and wayland regardless of whatever you have installed. Yes, distro hoppers – I heard your plea. :')
- Dependencies
Type “sudo apt install build-essential libsdl2-dev” if you are on Debian/ubuntu
- How to compile
After downloading and extracting the tarball,
make -j$(nproc)
It’ll create a “notwin95” binary.
Then run it with ./notwin95.
- How to install
Type “sudo cp notwin95 /usr/local/bin/.”.
- Commands
Arrow keys (up/down/left/right) or mouse left click to navigate between suggestions. Press enter (or mouse double left click) to run a binary. Press ESC to quit.
- Notes
I’ve tested this on a orange pi 5 max and the CPU usage was pretty much nil. So I’m sure all of you will have no problems/issues running it.
- License
This is under the “DO WHATEVER YOU WANT” license. Should be self-explanatory.
-EDIT- I forgot to mention this -also- can be run outside the window manager.
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Uploading a gz source archive to a Git repository is absolutely cursed. Still, looks like a cool project.
Looks like a Windows mockup running on the ZX Spectrum. Highly meta 😅
for a minimal window manager / desktop environment i can also recommend
fluxbox- what it is
stretched
What’s going to happen when you click on lzmainfo
I just tried it – it pops a lil’ fart and closes. :')
Idk why, but Ark extracted a file without a file extension, but I figured that was the tar file, so I did tar -xf on it, and sure enough. And to get make to work I had to use
make -Bfor “always make”.That’s odd. Thanks for your input/tip.
windows 95-esque application launcher
it’s fascinating that everything seems to start here.
‘start me up’ plays
looks cool. screenshot kinda feels like those bootleg “win98 for super famicom” game(?)s.
That’s the idea. Also, thank you.
its a windows system. i know this.
Life… ugh… finds a way
