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  • Failed Attempts To Theme Windows

    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 24 01:16:22 2025
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    So someone faved one of my artworks on DeviantArt. And naturally I had
    a look through their faves, to see what else I might find interesting.
    And eventually I worked my way to this <https://www.deviantart.com/pitkon/art/Blackbox-309930439>, which is a
    theme for the Blackbox window manager.

    But more than that, for a while there was a project to run Blackbox on
    Windows. The links in the blurb for that artwork point to a screenshot repository, last updated over a decade ago, and to a project home site
    and forum site, both now gone.

    Trying to install alternative GUIs on Windows was never going to be an
    easy task ...

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  • From Borax Man@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Tue Jun 24 10:45:37 2025
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.advocacy.]
    On 2025-06-24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:
    So someone faved one of my artworks on DeviantArt. And naturally I had
    a look through their faves, to see what else I might find interesting.
    And eventually I worked my way to this
    <https://www.deviantart.com/pitkon/art/Blackbox-309930439>, which is a
    theme for the Blackbox window manager.

    But more than that, for a while there was a project to run Blackbox on Windows. The links in the blurb for that artwork point to a screenshot repository, last updated over a decade ago, and to a project home site
    and forum site, both now gone.

    Trying to install alternative GUIs on Windows was never going to be an
    easy task ...

    Was that project LiteStep? I did see it in action once, and found it a
    little impressive, mainly because it was something different for
    Windows. That was years ago though.

    http://litestep.net/

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