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Retro screenshots

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Thu Mar 05, 2015 12:04 am

Post only very old scrots of yours. We all want to see how ugly, bloated and embarrassing your desktop looked like years ago. :)

I begin. The good old times with the classic real Gnome 2 desktop and fancy Compiz, OMG and look at the bloat on the top panel, though my Mate setup is very similar but more minimal visually.

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Thank god Postimage has all my old scrots. :)
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Re: Retro screensots

Unread post by wuxmedia » Thu Mar 05, 2015 12:11 am

Good ole postimage.org :)
This is Scrot zero:
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Back in only 2012, fuck.
I now work for the guy in the jabber window :)
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Re: Retro screenshots

Unread post by Dr_Chroot » Thu Mar 05, 2015 2:47 am

@ivan You don't happen to know what GTK2 theme that is, do you? I don't particularly mind it :)

@wux It's a beauty /s Such a nice thing to be able to gauge from whence you came. I wish I had kept some of my earlier scrots; they were real facepalms.
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Re: Retro screenshots

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Thu Mar 05, 2015 4:39 am

It was my first Gtk3 theme ever, Gnome 2 was in transition those days to Gnome 3 on Testing. Damn, I cannot remember the name but is on Dev Art.

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Re: Retro screenshots

Unread post by GekkoP » Thu Mar 05, 2015 10:37 am

A couple of mine: #!, just two years ago.

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Re: Retro screenshots

Unread post by kexolino » Thu Mar 05, 2015 11:35 am

I dug this up from dA; shot from 2011 :)

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I don't know why I can't access the full-res image, but it's supposed to be glorious 1280x1024.

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Unread post by wuxmedia » Thu Mar 05, 2015 2:15 pm

^ nice, though.
A lot of mine went away with omploaders demise. :'(

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http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:380XD Which wasn't a joke. My introduction to linux was installing xfbdev drivers for X or something. Which wasn't a joke :p
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Unread post by Dr_Chroot » Thu Mar 05, 2015 3:24 pm

^ Wow. That looked fun :) I meant no offense; it was quite a feat to be able to get Linux running on some of those old beasts. I am fortunate I started with Linux when I did; everything is so much easier to configure today...
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Thu Mar 05, 2015 3:30 pm

^ wasn't that long ago. :p
sorry I got a bit snappy, long day at work. :)
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Re: Retro screenshots

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Thu Mar 05, 2015 4:31 pm

I am not sure if it is Xfce 4.6 or 4.8.

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Re: Retro screenshots

Unread post by Dr_Chroot » Thu Mar 05, 2015 5:23 pm

wuxmedia wrote:^ wasn't that long ago. :p
sorry I got a bit snappy, long day at work. :)
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Re: Retro screenshots

Unread post by bones » Thu Mar 05, 2015 6:42 pm

Only a year ago, but my eyes are bleeding. Still not as good at sexy setups as most of you...
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:18 pm

Eh, that's nice!
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Unread post by Dr_Chroot » Thu Mar 05, 2015 8:08 pm

^^ Better than what much of what is on /r/unixporn :)
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Re: Retro screenshots

Unread post by vic » Thu Mar 05, 2015 9:13 pm

^^^ Nice bones, and no worry, be happy that you never have to see my ugly scrots here :)
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Re: Retro screenshots

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Sat Mar 07, 2015 4:06 pm

There was a time I played with conky on DEs.

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Re: Retro screenshots

Unread post by Theo » Thu Nov 19, 2015 8:42 pm

Well consider the bloat (conky, wbar), the memory usage wasn't that bad :P
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Re: Retro screenshots

Unread post by franksinistra » Thu Nov 19, 2015 10:26 pm

3 years ago, debian sid, wmfs2.
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Unread post by Theo » Thu Nov 19, 2015 11:16 pm

Nice one Frank! Mine was on an old P3 with Delicate Linux (fork of Deli Linux). There wasn't a JWM package, so I wrote a PKBUILD (which looks a bit like those from Arch). Some dependencies have different names and Delicate is using uClibc instead of glibc (which is sometimes a pain in the ****, but as I've been told.. it's a bit lighter).

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Re: Retro screenshots

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Fri Nov 20, 2015 6:01 am

A nice necrobump.
This was when it was called scrotwm, much better name than now. :)

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