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Hi, I know not everyone uses OpenBSD for a desktop OS, but I have been for nearly 5 years and I'm quite curious about some of your opinions? do you embrace minimalism or pure aesthetics? are the two mutually exclusive? When I started using OpenBSD (..around 3.7) I was frequently switching between window managers, tweaking.. but for 2 years now I've been using fluxbox and I believe I'm comfortable with it. * Do you use one of the bundled window managers like cwm(1)/twm(1)/fvwm(1) or something else? * What other utilities do you find useful, any "dockapps" or similar applets? personal customizations? * Do you try to keep things uniform across other desktops? * What does your environment look like? anyone willing to post screenshots or actual workspace photos? I realize none of this may be relevant or even useful, but I figured it was worth asking here anyway. Anyone feel like humouring me? :-) Thanks. -Bryan.
OpenBSD-STABLE with fluxbox on my work desktop. I have a laptop with a busted LCD and keyboard, so I use it as a WinXP slave via rdesktop for running IE (checking websites, as I work in IT for a hosting company). The XP box runs in seamless mode, so fluxbox looks a bit weird with a Windows task bar across the top...but it works haha. At home I have OpenBSD-CURRENT running on my desktop...fluxbox there as well. Both have conky running as my monitor, with three instances: Left one is RSS feeds (undeadly, milw0rm, etc...), middle is CPU/RAM/etc, right is network-related stuff. I sometimes run GeoXPlanet as my wallpaper setter, but it takes some tweaks to get it running on OpenBSD and I haven't uploaded the fixed version to sourceforge for that (not trying to advertise, but if anyone is interested I'll upload the fixed code). That's pretty much it.
OT: FYI milw0rm went TU quite a while ago. Another good tracker is Offensive Security: http://www.exploit-db.com/
awesome, lots of xterm with 'xterm -fa efont:size=9', irssi + bitlbee (local), nail (heirloom mailx) and midori. Saludos. -- DISCLAIMER: http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ This message will self-destruct in 3 seconds.
$ pkg_info -t | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sed 's/-[[:digit:]].\{1,\}$//' | xclip
amsn
amule
d-feet
dejavu-fonts
dosbox
dvd+rw-tools
easytag
emesene
epdfview
firefox35
galculator
gcc
gimp
gmake
gnome-games
gqview
gtk-gnutella
gtk2-clearlooks-engine
gucharmap
hydrogen
inkscape
ion
kqemu
leafpad
mercurial
mpc
mpd
mplayer
no-ip
openoffice
php5-core
pidgin
python
qemu
quake
scrot
tango-icon-theme-extras
thewidgetfactory
tightvnc
tightvnc-viewer
transmission-gui
unrar
unzip
valknut
vlc
vorbis-tools
xchat
xclip
zenity
zip
Mozilla Firefox extensions:
CheckPlaces
DOM Inspector
DownThemAll!
DownloadHelper
Firebug
LiveClick
Rotate Image
SortPlaces
GTK+ control theme: Darkilouche
GTK+ icon theme: Tango
I use ion3 as my wm, made my own skin for it. Most of the time I'm
running Mozilla Firefox, Pidgin, XChat.
Screen shot:
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/1508/201001030239311024x768s.png
There I'm running:
galculator | leafpad | Mozilla Firefox
----------------------
mpdfind | xterm |
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xchat
Obviously not my usual layout. I have key bindings for much of those apps:
F2, xterm
F3, run
F4, galculator
F5, leafpad
F6 + file name, leafpad <file>
F7 + file name, mplayer <file>
<Ctrl> + <Alt> + J, mpdfind (let's me select a file to play with mpc,
pretty cool)
<Ctrl> + <Alt> + <End>, mpc stop
Etc.
Greetings.
ScrotWM on OpenBSD-stable. The mouse is only useful for, y'know, selecting which xterm to type into (though tmux is lovely enough for me to stick to a single term). -- Key ID: 493FB6AE Key fingerprint: 3E96 7892 B56D AE27 02EF BBAA BAA6 6C78 493F B6AE Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu
I use scrotwm with dual monitors. I really like scrotwm since it works well on even really old hardware. I adjust to make home, end, delete=delete forward work in xterm I force keypad to work numbers only I use colorls I have aliases to swap between english and spanish I have emu card so I use aucatvol + a script to change volume to known levels. pic: http://www.bennettconstruction.us/images/Desktop.jpg -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert Heinlein
I wasn't going to reply, but I couldn't believe that cwm hasn't received any love yet. It's glorious. Powerful keyboard control, neat features, and faster than you need it to be. Its minimalism is elegant (and absolute) with no window decoration crud to distract or No, but net/rsync is excellent for that purpose.
evilwm + xbindkeys "Anything else is pure luxury."
On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 10:34:07 -0500 always -current + cwm + mrxvt + tmux = all what i need. at my netbook xfce or cwm.
I have used OpenBSD as my main desktop since 2.9. Wish I had
love it. from first sight and 3.7-around. awesome. and it is. really. bitlbee, xchat, mpd was a long trip for picking up acceptable web-browser, (and ah, Chromium works (tnx pvalchev@) but sucks), so it's modori and firefox for some tasks. but midori is the best. mplayer, conky
I'm idle enough to google for "unclutter". I hereby thank you for directing me to yet another great utility. -- Key ID: 493FB6AE Key fingerprint: 3E96 7892 B56D AE27 02EF BBAA BAA6 6C78 493F B6AE Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu
I generally first do: $ grep unclutter /usr/ports/INDEX -- DISCLAIMER: http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ This message will self-destruct in 3 seconds.
I generally prefer to know as much as I can about something before I try it. -- Key ID: 493FB6AE Key fingerprint: 3E96 7892 B56D AE27 02EF BBAA BAA6 6C78 493F B6AE Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu
I usually cd /usr/ports ; make install ; find /usr/local/ -perm -g=x -exec {} \;
-B
musca, it's easy to configure, and the catchall and dedicate commands are awesome http://aerosuidae.net/musca/Musca_Window_Manager I saved and re-use my config files everywhere. All my files stay on 1 not much to show, the magic is in musca -- Later Peter
I'm curious about how you deal with that. I have the same annoying problem of little differences in config files from system to system. Do you make this usb drive your home, or rsync, or what? I've once setup an usb thumb drive with a complete OpenBSD and boot on it everywhere I can but the writes were so slow that the thing is barely usable (I think I might try it with an external HD). -- Manuel Giraud
For normal files, I mount the usb drive /mnt/whatever and create a bookmark to it or set the file manager to start there by default. Sometimes i use /home/pete/temp (on the main hard disk) and then move all the files once at the end of the day to the external disk. As for the config files, i try to use the same files on all systems. When that isn't possible i create .tcshrc-base and .tcshrc-obsd-add with the extra lines i need. Then i copy and paste the contents of -add into -base as needed (i could use patch). Or i make 2 separate files, .tcshrc-server and .tcshrc-laptop These files are kept on the usb drive and copied into my /home once, after a fresh install. It's pretty easy with a -server and -laptop version. rsync is overkill. -- Later Peter
This is mine: http://62.94.26.180/2010-01-06-173523_1024x768_scrot.png scrotwm 0.9.20 xstatbar (tweaked by me) mpd + pms cheers, David
ryan needs to send me a patch to add to the code base...
egads, i had completely forgotten about that... apologies
:-) you academic types are always busy, eh?
hah, only when the end-o-term is upon me, and suddenly students are so very interested in their low, low grades... it's more "the getting-married-soon" types are busy. :)
I use OpenBSD-Stable with Gnome, triple-booting with Windows 7 and Centos 5.4 Some screenshots are here in my website http://www.katalis.web.id/openbsd-4-5-screenshot-using-gnome-window-manager
You can also access my site located in US here http://www.techonia.com/openbsd-4-5-screenshot-using-gnome-window-manager . It must be much faster than the .ID one.. Thanks/regards, FN
Who'd have thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here alt-tabin' between xterms with a windowmanager of our choice! In them days we was glad to have little rectangular pieces of paper (wet paper!) and would move them on our desk (at least those lucky bastards who had a desk! a broken desk that is) and point a pencil (with no grafit) into to the one we wanted to write in. And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.
Not me. Thirty years ago I was introduced to the NCR 8250. We could hunt for wumpuses or write code or process batch files from our customers. A couple of years later the NCR tech amazed us by switching the console from white to a black background. This let us play wumpuses a lot longer without the usual eye fatigue. Sadly our customers never really noticed any productivity gain.
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 22:13:24 -0800 Gerald Chudyk <gchudyk@gmail.com> http://xkcd.com/378/ -- J.C. Roberts
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:08:38 -0500 I would except that I never got it to work with my dual monitor card on my primary desktop machine. So I use Linux for the monitor and when I need to, I use the X display manager to log onto an OpenBSD machine. That Windowmaker on everything. Eric
-xmobar with CPU, battery, and fuzzy clock for statusbar -mutt -git for config syncing -firefox -tmux -irssi I always use the same programs, and the configs are generally the same with machine-specific customizations tracked in my various git branches.
I bounce between base + scrotwm, mutt, irssi, ssvnc and firefox to do what I need to do, and a full Gnome environment (with some keyboard fudging to closer match scrotwm bindings) when I get the bling itch. I find scrotwm wonderful, and the maintainers of Gnome on OpenBSD have done wonders as well. Thanks to all.
I'm using OpenBSD since a couple of years. I was using ion, then switched roxterm/mlterm (easier with multilanguage and widechar, scim etc. but roxterm is real slow!), alpine (could never get mutt to work properly with unicode, so gave up), mpd/ncmpc, mplayer, w3m/firefox/lynx, pidgin, vim, texlive, abiword (sic!), xpdf/acroread, feh postgresql/psql/pgadmin3 http://imagebin.ca/view/RK07pI.html with external monitor attached on my laptop b There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.b
fvwm2 with 16 pages http://picasaweb.google.com/sgeorge.ml/OpenBSDDesktop#5384519398011727266 --Siju
You have Skype running???? -- http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
Yup :-) No Voice only chat :-( I need it so that others in one of the companies I work for can contact me in case of trouble., I wrote a howto on that here. http://www.mail-archive.com/bsd-india@bsd-india.org/msg00350.html hope this helps :-) --Siju
