I’m still just trying to get my terminal to look like the Portal (1) Aperture Science screensaver, but for some reason last time I tried I couldn’t get it just right. Now that I have KDE (and thus color picker and Konsole), I should try again…
The hardest part is the glow effect on the text I think.
This is more like Fallout than Portal but maybe it can work for you.
I’ve never been more excited about ruining my eyes 🤩
I used the thing here a while back to take a screenshot of running gopher on some of the remaining gopher servers in gopherspace (note that the sdf.org guys shown here also run a lemmy server, nicely linking the past and today). Its default settings in amber were a not-wildly-unreasonable match for some of the VT terminals connected to a VAX/VMS system that I used in the 1990s. More noise added by default, but it’s the closest thing I’ve seen to a replica to that era that one’s likely to see short of getting an actual CRT VT terminal and plonking it on your serial port (well, these days, probably a USB-to-serial adapter).
EDIT: Apparently this guy set up docker images on Debian to emulate old computing environments and then rigged that to a VT420 and ran gopher on that:
Hahaha, been there. :)
It can do bloom with its shaders, the way @[email protected] wants. I don’t know if any of the presets have quite that much bloom, though.
It can do CRT-style scanlines, as he’s looking for, and it doesn’t have doesn’t have to have the faux-CRT curvature; see the “Futuristic” preset for a preset that doesn’t have that curvature.
EDIT: There’s a settings dialog that lets one ramp up or down each of the given visual effects.
Portal (1) Aperture Science screensaver,
https://old.reddit.com/r/Portal/comments/1bdltht/aperture_science_pc_wallpaper/
Though this seems to have multiple of those “falling” bright areas, and cool-retro-term only has one. I’m not sure what that’s supposed to be, for either the screensaver or cool-retro-term. You can get a vaguely-similar effect if you have a video camera taking footage of a CRT; I guess the proper term for this is the stroboscopic effect. Might be what they’re trying to depict.
If I remember right, they were adjustable in its settings. But it’s been a long time since I’ve used this.
You’re right…just checked, updated my comment, and then saw yours. :-)
Huh, cool! Apparently the dev who made this thought about everything. :)
One eye-candy thing it can’t do is animated cursor movement. Not sure how to describe this, but basically, when the cursor moves, you draw a trail behind it.
According to that, KiTTY got support for it six months ago.
EDIT: That being said, that’s not really “retro”, so might be out-of-scope for the project.
Yeah, that’s definitely not a retro feature but my my, that’s a cool one. 10 years ago, I wouldn’t imagine something like this on a terminal emulator.
Thank you! I had no idea what “bloom” was (clearly, because I called it glow lmao).
This is at least close enough, if not perfect, especially if I can (and I expect so) change the background to the aperture logo (which can easily be found in the correct orange/brownish color online).
if I can (and I expect so) change the background to the aperture logo
You cannot in the current mainline branch, but it looks like someone has a pull request open for the past couple months to add a background image.
Ayy alright! Here’s hoping, thanks!
You might have some luck with a wm that can apply shaders.
Something like hyprland, wayfire, or compost could do the trick; and you’d be looking for a very diffuse (glsl) bloom shader with an exaggerated horizontal component or an additional scanline shader.
Idk how exactly you’d apply the effect to your terminal, but you could get that text effect by applying a scanline and bloom filter
If there was reshade for terminal it’d be 2 check boxes lol
Also! Thick padding/space around tiled windows just taking up valuable screen space.
“I use a tiling window manager to utilise screen space!”
Meanwhile the 10km gap between windows
Because we’re fucking weebs…
I’m very clearly not fucking anyone.
Meanwhile, I’m married and can’t be bothered to change anything in my Kubuntu UI from the defaults. I wonder if there’s a correlation, LOL
That is because KDE Plasma with the standard theme is already perfect and there is nothing to improve!
Just out of curiosity, because every time I see your username, I wonder…does your username derive from Zork or from the Parahumans series?
The likelihood that the poster I’m replying to has built a Gundam model kit in the last 6 months has risen by 58%.
Will you share pictures of your latest Gundam dioramas with us?
Only if you show me your Ork army.
Mood
Yeah too many just look so… samey. Not mine, but one I wish to recreate
That’s obviously just reskinned domain/os. You thought you could fool us, but you haven’t got one over on me!
In terms of window decorations, looks like twm with default settings. Standard window manager to ship with what is now Xorg.
EDIT: For emacs, those are also default colors, I think, for at least some point. X11 color names HarvestWheat and ForestGreen, if memory serves aright.
EDIT2: No, that’s probably not a graphical emacs instance, because the title is “sh”. They’re probably running sh and then running console emacs (or vim or something else, I guess, can configure either to look like that) and don’t have their shell set up to pass the escape sequences to tell the virtual terminal program to update the window title.
EDIT3: Also, the color’s the default twm color, but that’s not the default twm decorations. That’s…damn, I can’t remember the name of that widget set.
goes poking around
Motif. And apparently mwm used Motif widgets.
Thank you for the info! I wasn’t aware of the X11 colors.
The original author only gives this information about their setup:
bar - custom + fork of dmenu (not shown)
gtk theme - custom version of cde theme
icons - just a couple grabbed from various themes
term - urxvt and a generic vte term
I imagine this is not Motif since it’s a GTK theme? Not very familiar with GUI stuff.
Maybe it’s FVWM? It is a derivative of TWM.
Perhaps NsCDE?
NsCDE and other CDE lookalikes seem to have a thicker horizontal bar in the upper left decoration than this and the original CDE, but perhaps that is one of the customizations the author mentions.
Also, the background seems to be from Elementary OS beta. Specifically, blueprint hue shifted to match purpleprint, based on the cropping and vignette.
CDE
Oh, could be. Looks like CDE and MWM looked the same.
That meme has always irked me. Squidward is dishing attitude towards the firh ordering the only thing they have on menu. It is not like they make anything other than crab patties.
Maybe he’s mocking the fishes slow response time to a 1 answer question.
also some socks
I like having the butt mogged some zoomers girl as my background.
Girl? Do you even Linux?
It’s only Linux when it comes from the tiling region of Finland. Otherwise it’s just sparkling GNU.
Since compiz fusion is long deprecated, I stick to Xmonad with almost no visual changes from the stock install, other than tweaks to make some colors lower contrast.
Oh man I forgot about this! How long has it been dead? Why does no one want this?
I had this running on Ubuntu on my laptop back in the day
KDE still has some of the most popular effects built-in, including wobbly windows, desktop cube, magic lamp when minimizing/maximizing, blurring semitransparent windows, “exploding” windows when you close them. They’re built in with no extra software required - just go to the “Desktop Effects” settings.
Oh man, I’m gonna look into this. I’m currently running Bluefin, but maybe I’ll pivot over to Aurora 🤔
Thanks!
Shit, I remember when my machine couldn’t handle compiz fusion and this demo made me jealous. We’ve come a long way.
I remember the cube, might not have been this, might have just been the animation to change desktops.
🍚
what could you want more
I’m in this photo, and I don’t like it
Changing things up by finding the most unattractive anime girl for my background instead.
An unattractive anime girl? Is that even possible?
As the internet will lewd any and all things I deem this challenge impossible!
As long as it’s not watery diarrhea brown (a.k.a “gruvbox”), I’ll take it.
I like the transparent windows, but I’d use Rosé Pine Moon or Nord for the colours. A nice landscape for the background (currently a pic of Dark Souls 3 Boreal Valley) and a little bit of gaps, very minal borders, and a transparent waybar up top with desktop workspace indicator, time, and a few other things.
