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GTK theme based on the classic appearance of Windows 95 and Windows Server 2003

6 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2023-04-05 · latest 2025-04-22

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  1. https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 and https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 get quite close if you use them together. The B00merang one has presets for the GNOME/Cinnamon/MATE desktop and a GTK+4 theme (which adds terrible…
  2. You may want to supplement Chicago95 with an experimental GTK4 theme from the b00merang project https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 You will have to install it manually by overwriting your user-level GTK4 config, but then it…
  3. …is nice, but these days you should also install the (experimental) GTK+4 theme from b00merang https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 to get proper styling in the latest apps. That repo also has configs for Cinnamon, GNOME-Shell…
    comment by zozbot234 · 2024-03-25 · in Windows 98 Icons (2015)
  4. …and GTK4 that replicate classic 3D widgets and remove much of the excess padding in modern apps. https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 (You should install both; Chicago95 is more actively…
  5. https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 has a theme for GTK+4 with classic widgets, they work quite well w/ the new "responsive" mobile-friendly apps. Unfortunately you'll need to replace your GTK+ user config outright to use it…
  6. Have you tried https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 or any of the similar themes by that project? There's a bit of extra padding still but it's vastly more usable than the Adwaita default. (And of course you don't need to bother…
    comment by zozbot234 · 2023-04-05 · in Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux