SLWM and XFDOS desktop
Georg Potthast used a port of the FLTK GUI toolkit to write a new desktop for DOS, called SLWM, which forms a graphical environment: XFDOS. This allows you to select applications by clicking on the various icons on this desktop. SLWM runs in a loop of a small batch file. So when an application is selected SLWM terminates and leaves all the memory for the new application. SLWM restarts when the application terminates. The package includes mostly the ported applications, FlWriter, Antipaint, Dillo, Mupdf etc. plus paket drivers to establish an internet connection. You can add almost any DOS applications by adding a desktop entry file for it as you would for KDE or Gnome. Distributed under the Mozilla license. http://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/downloads/list
You can find a screenshot here:
http://nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos.googlecode.com/files/XFDOS.png
2012-08-06 16:24:20 PDT by jhall1