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spliskin

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Registered: 2020-07-06

Posts: 18  

Work - or Support for project

Anyone have a project they want help on or need someone for a job? Let me know ASAP. Doesn't matter if it's windows/linux, C/C++, shell, python, javascript, web, react, or insert favorite here.. I've done too much over the years and can just about do whatever is needed for any platform or network. This includes administration and development. Servers, cloud, desktop, mobile, consoles, embedded. Doesn't matter the target.

Otherwise - Does anyone support alternatives anymore? Seems that unless it's free they don't want to help support free projects.

I forked a desktop environment a while ago and have kept it local. I've fixed the one major bug in it, but would like to move it forward..
It's for X/Xlibre, non wayland.

Anyone interested in supporting a smaller, slimmer, desktop that uses less ram, and has near 0 dependencies? I want to keep this alive and grow it but I'm going to need some help to do that and keep working on it.

Last edited by spliskin (2025-11-08 10:27:13)

EDX-0

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Registered: 2020-12-12

Posts: 184  

Re: Work - or Support for project

open a thread in DIY and post the repo in the opening post, tho if any of my projects is an indication expect no traction nor engagement from the forum whatsoever.

greenjeans

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Registered: 2017-04-07

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Re: Work - or Support for project

Work? Sorry friend, i'm poor as dirt, wal-mart whiskey is about the best I can afford.

Forked DE? Color me interested, details?

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brocashelm

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Registered: 2020-06-29

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Re: Work - or Support for project

Are you interested in helping fork Xfce 4.12, SpaceFM, and GTK2?

spliskin

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Registered: 2020-07-06

Posts: 18  

Re: Work - or Support for project

@greenjeans
I forked QVWM and fixed/changed some thing for myself locally. Been using it for years.

The main issue was the root window issue where it lost focus and stops allowing switching between apps because of how it handled the window order..

The other changes were just QOL changes. I was in the middle of changing the control rendering and creation, into an external lib so it would be a lot more seamless for apps written towards it. There's a lot of other plans as well but I would like to be able to work on it more and make it a lot better than it's current state. It uses 5 - 10 MB RAM at most atm but as always that shifts slightly up or down depending on use.

@EDX-0 - About your first point, sure. About your project, I have no idea

@brocashelm - Absolutely, yes. I swap between this one and XFCE. Still would work on it. There's plenty in XFCE that could be fixed / made better. I would be veeery tempted to strip the GTK from it but most definitely.

Last edited by spliskin (2025-11-08 10:21:15)