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		em-bee on July 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cool, but obscure X11 tools (2019) it appears the author is running freebsd, and based on the style of the title and border i am guessing that this is the fvwm windowmanager, the screen background on some of the images seems to support that.

MobiusHorizons on July 13, 2023 [–]

Yep, when you run startx on a new FreeBSD install (or openBSD for that matter) this is what it looks like by default.

nmstoker on July 13, 2023 | [–]

Interesting! I didn't realize it would be that easy and like that by default. This is why I love the kind of discussions that crop up on HN!

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