On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Brynet wrote:

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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?

I'm using OpenBSD since a couple of years. I was using ion, then switched
to dwm not long ago, and find it kind of my ideal wm.


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> * What other utilities do you find useful, any "dockapps" or similar
> applets? personal customizations?

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
I guess that's about all I need.

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> * Do you try to keep things uniform across other desktops?

I only have one:)

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> * What does your environment look like? anyone willing to post
> screenshots or actual workspace photos?

http://imagebin.ca/view/RK07pI.html
with external monitor attached on my laptop
with "xrandr --output LVDS --auto --output VGA --auto --right-of LVDS"

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>
> I realize none of this may be relevant or even useful, but I figured it
> was worth asking here anyway.

bThere is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.b
Bertrand Russell

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>
> Anyone feel like humouring me? :-)
>
> Thanks.
> -Bryan.