{"repo":"rhaleblian/pirix","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/rhaleblian/pirix","clone":"git clone https://github.com/rhaleblian/pirix.git","description":"Emulation of SGI's IRIX Interactive Desktop on Raspberry Pi and platforms with Motif Window Manager","language":"C","stars":89,"topics":["irix","sgi","magic","desktop","indigo","raspberry","pi","motif","mwm","silicon-graphics"],"license":"MIT","category":"self-hosted-apps","readme_excerpt":"piRIX piRIX is an emulation of SGI's IRIX Interactive Desktop on Raspberry Pi 3/4 (and some other platforms). Advisory: Oops, Wayland! This hackamadoodle uses mwm which uses X11 which is disappearing on the Pi and platforms moving to Wayland. We'll see piRIX progressively stop working. Somebody could port mwm to Wayland (cue: everybody laugh). Besides being nostalgic, this desktop environment is fast and easy on Pi resources. Installation On Debian distributions, you'll need a few packages first. Run sudo make install-debian-prerequisites Look at Makefile for specifics on what OS packages are being installed. As usual, Fedora distributions will use different names for these packages. Then install: make install Put this in your $HOME/.xinitrc or $HOME/.xsession file: . $HOME/.config/pirix/pirixrc pirix If you're booting directly to PIXEL Desktop, change your boot setting with raspi-config to drop into a shell. Then run startx We mentioned .xsession because some remote desktop mechanisms and display managers like xrdp will use that file instead. Salient if you, say, want piRIX to be available from your login screen. What gets installed? Files will be installed to $HOME/.config/pirix NOTE! Any changes you may have made to files already here will be overwritten! How do I uninstall this? rm -r $HOME/.config/pirix and undo anything you did to $HOME/.xinitrc . Where is the Toolchest? There ain't none (but see #2). Find a compromise by pressing your left mouse button over the desktop","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/rhaleblian","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/rhaleblian/pirix/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}