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That is so freaking amazing.
Why haven't you showed us that earlier? So retro and juicy. Do you have any more screenshots of your old window manager?

From what I gather, the screenshot is of the UNIX/Linux window manager, not a window manager that f2 has made.

i++;

Yeah it is this: image

I wrote a VirtualBox guest additions driver to support automatically changing the display resolution ("Auto-resize Guest Display"), and added support for the same to my compositor and core applications (wallpaper, panel). Having relied on the bootloader setting the display resolution in most cases, the compositor and applications hadn't been designed for the possibility of the display resolution changing while they were running, but neither involved major changes, and I used some existing protocol methods in my display system to advertise the changed resolution. The compositor changes themselves are agnostic to any particular driver implementation, so getting this change to the downstream Unix port should be fairly simple.



See also this larger screenshot.

Recent pages of the thread inspired me to do a mockup of window decorations. Damn you, thread.



edit: Another mockup:

Cool! It reminds me of an old KDE3 theme I used for a while. Can't remember which one though.

You managed to write your own guest additions?
What about real time resolution handling, since you are using grub to set your video mode? How are you going to make it possible?

@Kazinsal
Who exactly inspired you?

Less who and more what -- there's been a recent surge of GUI screenshots on here.

The inspiration for the design is mostly the Windows Whistler beta UI theme, which was eventually ripped out of the beta and distributed for hacked uxtheme.dll systems eg. WindowBlinds as "Watercolor".

Indeed, and documented it on the wiki.


I only rely on grub in cases where I don't have a driver of my own, but I only have drivers for virtualized display devices (used to just be bochs/qemu, which implicitly got me support for VirtualBox as it uses the same API on a different PCI device; I now also support the basic VMware SVGA device for modesetting). I had not previously supported live changes in the display resolution, but part of adding support for VirtualBox Guest Additions was implementing that, so now I should be able to expand it to general modesetting and add a userspace tool for it.

One month of work, I didn't reveal my projects with anyone!
SerNicoOS
My OS written in C#, (I didn't write compiler from scratch :p )
Next Month I will write shell and BASIC APP Support

So many nice screens again, this thread really inspires people
Heres a screenshot of my new font manager.
Im using "Ubuntu.ttf" for rendering the text in the window titles.
I support kerning as well

@ch4ozz Nice!

Hi everyone!
I'm finally making my return to the community after a 9 year hiatus...
I found my old account, but can't remember the password/email combo I used back then - and I'd rather leave some of those ignorant posts in the past where they belong (I was 15 at the time).
I'm hoping I can be a more productive member of the community this time around.

I've had some downtime at work between projects and decided to resurrect my old OS, and now it's taking up a lot of my time . But I'm definitely more knowledgeable than I was in 2007.
Figured I would post a picture of where I'm at.

Running in Qemu -curses inside of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Pretty sweet. The background is just due to transparent shell - no fancy graphics yet.



What's displayed is my kernel running a hacked up version of objdump... and displaying ELF information about the kernel that's been loaded from the ext2 filesystem.
I finally worked out the kinks on reading/writing files using indirect inode blocks, so ext2 now has native support. ELF32 files can be loaded and run.
Next up will probably be a bootloader for the kernel.
There's currently no multitasking - I had it written (somewhat poorly), and decided to scrap it and rewrite with a focus on getting some basic functionality working first - like my ext2 and elf code.

I've also ported my ext2 driver code to run on my host OS (windows 10/WSL). The linux subsystem is awesome with the exception of not being able to mount disk images. So I wrote a program that can read and write files to ext2 disk images, and those disk images can be mounted on real linux systems (tested on my raspberry pi ). If anyone wants the code, it's unfinished but I can share.

I don't have many features, but I've got ascii art!

@TrekOSDeveloper how do you get that line? Check stack?