This is a single post from deeden.co.uk made during the period May 2002 to April 2009. During a previous grand redesign I decided to make a break with the past and consign the old entries to history. This entry is from October 2002 and lives here forevermore.

Back in the world of vtwm

I’m finally sending the ibook I use (from work) back to Apple. This is to get the keyboard fixed. It has been ignoring certain letters for a number of months now, and finally I’ve had enough.

This has all resulted in me going back to using linux for a while (specifically Debian). Now KDE 1 was installed and I took a dislike to that so, in order to get some work done in a familiar-ish environment, I insalled twm. This mainly came about after I found the .twmrc file I used at Queens. So after a bit of jiggery-pokery I was back in the days of 1994 with the same colours and menus.

Anyway today I changed to vtwm so that I could have the joys of virtual desktops. Which takes me back to 1995 (or forward, depending on your view). It’s very strange using these systems after so long. It’s a rather nice feeling of nostalgia. I have noticed that I really miss zwrite, zwgc, zctl and all that. I was very used to sending quick messages to the person beside me asking if they wanted to go for lunch!