Click here to download it.

• What it is

A minimal, windows 95-esque application launcher... with fancy directory icons over binary name suggestions, mouse support (you can doubleclick a binary name to run it) and a real-time clock on the far lower right.

• Why

Nostalgia... and a "futureproof" likeness (If both X11 and wayland gets ditched/replaced for whatever reason... this will still work as intended.). Also, due to how it works on both X11 and wayland regardless of whatever you have installed. Yes, distro hoppers -- I heard your plea. :')

• Dependencies

Type "sudo apt install build-essential libsdl2-dev" if you are on Debian/ubuntu

• How to compile

After downloading and extracting the tarball,

make -j$(nproc)

It'll create a "notwin95" binary.

Then run it with ./notwin95.

• How to install

Type "sudo cp notwin95 /usr/local/bin/.".

• Commands

Arrow keys (up/down/left/right) or mouse left click to navigate between suggestions. Press enter (or mouse double left click) to run a binary. Press ESC to quit.

• Notes

I've tested this on a orange pi 5 max and the CPU usage was pretty much nil. So I'm sure all of you will have no problems/issues running it.

• License

This is under the "DO WHATEVER YOU WANT" license. Should be self-explanatory.

-EDIT- I forgot to mention this -also- can be run outside the window manager.

Idk why, but Ark extracted a file without a file extension, but I figured that was the tar file, so I did tar -xf on it, and sure enough. And to get make to work I had to use make -B for "always make".

That's odd. Thanks for your input/tip.

windows 95-esque application launcher

it's fascinating that everything seems to start here.

What's going to happen when you click on lzmainfo

I just tried it -- it pops a lil' fart and closes. :')

• what it is

stretched

looks cool. screenshot kinda feels like those bootleg "win98 for super famicom" game(?)s.

its a windows system. i know this.

That's the idea. Also, thank you.

Looks like a Windows mockup running on the ZX Spectrum. Highly meta 😅

Life… ugh… finds a way

for a minimal window manager / desktop environment i can also recommend fluxbox

Uploading a gz source archive to a Git repository is absolutely cursed. Still, looks like a cool project.

'start me up' plays