I prefer EMWM; with XFile, Classic-Colors, Nedit-XFT, XImaging... it's like an-almost-CDE without the panel, or like the Irix desktop but without being bloated like Maxx, and it's 100% free as in freedom software. XPDF can complete a bit the feeling (the old v3 release) and if you are a C programmer with experience, a dumb interface for MPV with XEmbed.

For Gopher browsers there's XMosaic but it's still propietary, a shame.

XGopher might do far better if you link-LD_PRELOAD it against Xaw3D, which can be Motif-ish, or at least a bit closer to that era, or an alpha Motif build of Netsurf.

https://github.com/revmadison/netsurf-motif

As for IM'img, any IRC client written against Lesstif will do the trick building it against OpenMotif.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nebula-irc/

Then you can just use Bitlbee as a bridge to anything.

On word processor, Ted against Motif can do really well; I could even use the Spanish translation with Metric sized toolbars and such. Ditto with xfig with 'xfig -metric'. Not Motif, but it matches the environment, kinda like GV for PostScript files.

Or Emacs with Org-Mode.

Emacs linked against Motif will look perfect under EMWM and you'll get:

- A Mail/Usenet client

- An IRC client

- Telegram client with Telega

- A gopher/gemini client (Elpher)

- NNRSS and another builtin RSS reader

- OFC, both handle podcasts fine

- File manager with SSH and rclone support

- A Z-machine interpreter to play text adventures (Malyon)

- Video/music player thru EMMS

- Org-Mode/Org-Agenda-Org-Babel and friends

- Emacs' builtin spreadsheet

- pdf-tools to read and anotate PDF's.

- M-x calc with Gnuplot for plots

- Nov.el to read Ebooks.

For GTK and QT themes, you can use the CDE theme for GTK and the builting one for QT with qt5ct/qt6ct and set

     EXPORT QT_PLATFORM_THEME=qt5ct

to /etc/profile.d/qt5.sh and chmod +x 'ing it. The are similar XDG and GTK/Themes icons at https://gnome-loook.org and the like called 'CDE' which are great. Decompress them at ~/.icons and use lxapperance to chage your GTK theme.

https://www.pling.com/p/1920644/

It needs JS; but I can just posts a TGZ in my gopher site with both the themes and icons if you like them, or better, with Bittorrent, then aria2c would do the job.

▲ rjsw 3 days ago | parent [-]

> Emacs linked against Motif will look perfect under EMWM

I think that Motif support has been removed from latest Emacs, it is still there in v29.

	▲	jmclnx 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I just checked, config option --with-x-toolkit=motif still works with 30.1 In a way I would be surprised if motif is removed, I think FSF still wants to support proprietary UN*X and for that you really need to support motif. FWIW, lucid and athena is still allowed too. I checked because a person in LQ/Slackware always recompiles Emacs with motif support. He/She would have complained in the group if motif was removed :)