Looking for a Mac OS9 style desktop environment

tootnbuns@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Linux@lemmy.ml – 42 points –

Hi I'm looking for a retro style desktop environment (or maybe just some skin or something) for my Debian workstation. Preferably something that looks like Mac OS 9.

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MLVWM is a classic mac window manager for X11

https://github.com/morgant/mlvwm

Also you will need

https://github.com/morgant/mlvwmrc

Also bonus: Mac OS 8 startup for Plymouth

https://github.com/vladkorotnev/System8

Ooh, I wonder how the menu bar works across apps since most are designed to have menus in-window. I remember older versions of KDE used a global menu bar and there were some hacks to move some GTK apps' menus into there as well, but it wasn't totally consistent.

Might have to give this a try.

BTW modern KDE still has this as a module and it works pretty well with both Qt and GTK programs (though with GTK it sometimes shows it in both locations).