For me personally, IRIX 6.x had one of the most beautiful (and colourful) GUIs ever.
For the curious, there is a guide (1) on how to run IRIX 6.5.22 in MAME.
For the curious, there is a guide (1) on how to run IRIX 6.5.22 in MAME.
One other thing lost, their scrollbars kept an indentation of where the bar was until you let go, which was sometimes useful.
Not a fan of the busy backgrounds, but can’t win ’em all.
Does anyone have a screenshot of the window menu (right click on titlebar)? Been looking for the CUA hotkeys related to those window functions. Most still work but are not shown on Linux desktops for some reason.
That's just Motif: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software)
Shame it wasn't under an open license to begin with (they relicenced it to LGPL waaay too late). We've been reimplementing it ever since.
Though it has been twenty-odd years since I last used an SGI box so open to correction!
Most people were on Windows, some of us were running Linux, but IRIX seemed odd even to us, with our mainstream DEs like enlightenment or KDE or windowmaker :D