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Comment by kristopolous

xfce way back in the day was trying to clone CDE which is open source and actively maintained these days https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/ (really. last release was in november 2025)

Just in case you want an even more vintage experience.

There's also people trying to keep the SGI experience alive, but this one is a clone: https://docs.maxxinteractive.com/

As for as early xfce check out https://xteddy.org/xwinman/screenshots/xfce-default.jpg (I'm actually on that site from 25 years ago: https://xteddy.org/xwinman/screenshots/twm-cjmckenzie.gif)

parent kristopolous 9 months ago

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