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Of course, that's what I've tried to express; but maybe I've not phrased well. I've tried to mean that I enjoy a lot the fact that you could not tell if you are logged into a MIPS/IRIX box or into MaXX Desktop... both virtually behave the same!

Well, I've already registered myself a couple hours ago... I'll add my ticket once approved my account. Thanks in advance for your excellent work with MaXX!

GeneratriX wrote:

maxxi.desktop wrote: @GeneratriX

As for the correspondence... I like the idea a lot, but MaXX really try to follow the IRIX SGI Desktop guidelines and best-practices. I am targeting first IRIX to Linux migrations (that is where my real value and business is).

Of course, that's what I've tried to express; but maybe I've not phrased well. I've tried to mean that I enjoy a lot the fact that you could not tell if you are logged into a MIPS/IRIX box or into MaXX Desktop... both virtually behave the same!

maxxi.desktop wrote: Finally, I like the idea of offering some kind of KDE'ish menu generating tool based on the Linux installation underneath.

Feel free to log a request for feature on dev.maxxdesktop.com/trac/maxxdesktop

Well, I've already registered myself a couple hours ago... I'll add my ticket once approved my account. Thanks in advance for your excellent work with MaXX! All the best,
Diego

foetz wrote: fantastic

what would be required from the guys joining the team?

hamei wrote:

maxxi.desktop wrote: Your comments/feedback are always welcome.

If it ran on MIPS-Linux it would be more desirable (to me, anyhow.) A Longson laptop and MaXXDesktop is the closest any of us will ever get to an Irix portable ... (geo excepted )

vishnu wrote: Eric, what is the status of the SGI Indigo Magic Desktop source code? Do you have all of it or are there parts that the development team will have to reverse engineer because the source code is unavailable?

TeamBlackFox wrote: Not impressed until you get it running on BSD!

foetz wrote:

guardian452 wrote: /opt/MaXX/bin/mxterm: symbol lookup error: /opt/MaXX/bin/mxterm: undefined symbol: getColorResource[/code]

different xlib than what it was linked against

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./ideas
./ideas: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

either not part of your LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or ldconfig config) or simply missing

foetz wrote:

maxxi.desktop wrote: libXt -- my implementation has the sgiScheme loader built-in... as SGI did back then

nice, so you included what was in the libSgm directly?

armanox wrote: Excited to see this project live again. I'll give it a test on my testing laptop (Latitude D610 w/ 1GB RAM, Fedora 22 installed). May need to give it a try building on Slackware or Solaris later if I'm happy with it.

...

Okay, I lied. Ran it on my main laptop (Dell Precision M4500, Fedora 21) with fairly good results:

MaXX.png

vishnu wrote: I ran 5Dwm as my main desktop for years on Slackware, but the releases after the project was rebranded to Maxx were problematic specific to Motif apps. This would have been with Slackware 13 through 13.37, I have not tried it with 14.0 or 14.1. As I recall the problem was that motif windows would come up black on black, which obviously made it a bit tough to get any serious work done...

TeamBlackFox wrote: Not impressed until you get it running on BSD!

TeamBlackFox wrote: Sounds like bugs with your particular setup. Maybe if I have some time soon you could give me access to the source repo and I'll see what I can come up with.

foetz wrote: very nice, just correct the toolchest font and i'll change to "extremely nice"

TeamBlackFox wrote: As long as you provide a properly formatted makefile and instructions for .Xsession initialization, I'll do it.

cb88 wrote: Though sourceforge is pretty crappy... you might want to point your homepage URL there to the new site so people find it!

dukzcry wrote: Hey Maxxi, welcome back!

I'm seeing that the old releases of MaXX Desktop had desktop icons feature: https://tehtable.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/fm.png Is it still supported by latest MaXX? If so, how to activate this feature?

Second, having a source code (an open source parts) accessible via web is nice: http://dev.maxxdesktop.co/trac/maxxdesktop/browser But could you please also make a repository backing it accessible to public and post an address to it? (like via 'url' directive in trac: http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracRepos ... positories or just by posting repo url somewhere on the MaXX website)
An alternative option would be allowing to download whole repository (not just a single revision) as zip file, but I don't know whether trac added support for this.

Would be nice if you'd also update these open parts to match current MaXX version, but that's another story.

Thanks.

ledzep wrote:

maxxi.desktop wrote:

TeamBlackFox wrote: Sounds like bugs with your particular setup. Maybe if I have some time soon you could give me access to the source repo and I'll see what I can come up with.

that sounds like an idea. BTW, I tried on three different systems.

cheers!

Would PC-BSD be any better? I have been meaning to trying some form of Unix on my desktop machine, I was all set to use Free-BSD but then I was reading about PC-BSD and how it is built off of Free-BSD but has some usability improvements, so now I'm trying to choose between the two. I was going to try getting Motif or CDE running on whichever I chose, have a "more Unix" experience than looking at the same Gnome or KDE desktops that Linux has, but if Maxx is on its way back then I might finally have a Linux that is visually acceptable and I won't have to worry about BSD so much (though I'll still try one along with probably CDE, just can't figure out which one).

I think it would be a great idea to create a repository/PPA for Maxx when it gets to the stable working stage, that would really streamline the installation process, especially if it's (at least initially) only going to be tested/confirmed for a few of the Linux distros. I apologize if I understood the release process incorrectly.