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  • L ltning

    NetBSD 11rc2 with ctwm, conky, hot-babe and urxvt. Oh and it runs snac (https://larry.weirdr.net/). On a 486. 🙂

    IMG_7822.png

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    @ltning very nice!!!!

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    • L ltning

      NetBSD 11rc2 with ctwm, conky, hot-babe and urxvt. Oh and it runs snac (https://larry.weirdr.net/). On a 486. 🙂

      IMG_7822.png

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      @ltning 3c905B 😍
      This brings back memories!

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        20260419-openbsd.png

        OpenBSD current on a ThinkPad. LXQt. Daily laptop.

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          20260419-openbsd.png

          OpenBSD current on a ThinkPad. LXQt. Daily laptop.

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          @unix_joe Really clean. Nice setup!

          iz (she/her)

          > i like to say mundane things,
          > there are too many uninteresting things
          > that go unnoticed.

          izder456 (dot) neocities (dot) org

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          • andersgoA andersgo

            Shitty pictures, but running FVWM3 in a dual screen setup. Secondary HDMI screen is close to 15 years old now. Gkrellm and xclock. Steaming radio in xterm using mpv

            FreeBSD 15-STABLE, Intel core i5 with 8GB RAM.

            Same desktop as I used to run using OpenBSD

            IMG_3860.jpeg
            IMG_3859.jpeg

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            @andersgo said:

            Secondary HDMI screen is close to 15 years old now.

            I still use VGA in the year of our lord, 2026. My main monitor is a thinkvision from lenovo with the resolution 1440x900, i occasionally swap between that and a dell aio wyse that doubles as a vga monitor, that one is 1920x1080.

            iz (she/her)

            > i like to say mundane things,
            > there are too many uninteresting things
            > that go unnoticed.

            izder456 (dot) neocities (dot) org

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            • izder456I izder456

              @unix_joe Really clean. Nice setup!

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              @izder456 said:

              @unix_joe Really clean. Nice setup!

              Thanks. It's not a very complicated setup (that would be my Debian+sway workstation with custom keybindings) but it's functional and reliable. LXQt is underrated as a traditional desktop.

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                @izder456 said:

                @unix_joe Really clean. Nice setup!

                Thanks. It's not a very complicated setup (that would be my Debian+sway workstation with custom keybindings) but it's functional and reliable. LXQt is underrated as a traditional desktop.

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                @unix_joe said:

                Thanks. It's not a very complicated setup (that would be my Debian+sway workstation with custom keybindings) but it's functional and reliable. LXQt is underrated as a traditional desktop.

                Did you have issues with the default config weirdness? When I was testing my PRs of desktop-installer to add OpenBSD support (still trying to get that imported into the ports tree), it had strange defaults like forcing you to install sudo (even if you wanted doas only), or no desktop icon theme installed by default, or the session manager popup from the "start" menu not handling power on / power off / reboot correctly (even when following the pkg-readme)?

                I wish I were an active user of LXQt cos then I'd have a reason to fix these weird quirks with the ports/packages if they still existed. Alas, I'm very comfortable in my StumpWM/Emacs setup to change anything major like that.

                iz (she/her)

                > i like to say mundane things,
                > there are too many uninteresting things
                > that go unnoticed.

                izder456 (dot) neocities (dot) org

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                • izder456I izder456

                  @unix_joe said:

                  Thanks. It's not a very complicated setup (that would be my Debian+sway workstation with custom keybindings) but it's functional and reliable. LXQt is underrated as a traditional desktop.

                  Did you have issues with the default config weirdness? When I was testing my PRs of desktop-installer to add OpenBSD support (still trying to get that imported into the ports tree), it had strange defaults like forcing you to install sudo (even if you wanted doas only), or no desktop icon theme installed by default, or the session manager popup from the "start" menu not handling power on / power off / reboot correctly (even when following the pkg-readme)?

                  I wish I were an active user of LXQt cos then I'd have a reason to fix these weird quirks with the ports/packages if they still existed. Alas, I'm very comfortable in my StumpWM/Emacs setup to change anything major like that.

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                  @izder456 said:

                  Did you have issues with the default config weirdness? When I was testing my PRs of desktop-installer to add OpenBSD support (still trying to get that imported into the ports tree), it had strange defaults like forcing you to install sudo (even if you wanted doas only), or no desktop icon theme installed by default, or the session manager popup from the "start" menu not handling power on / power off / reboot correctly (even when following the pkg-readme)?

                  I don't remember that being an issue with the icons, or if it was, I installed them shortly thereafter.

                  sudo is not currently installed ('pkg_info | grep sudo' only reveals ksudoku, a game)

                  You're right that the session manager doesn't work correctly; it only takes me back to the xenodm login screen no matter what option I select. Generally the only time I reboot is from a weekly 'syspatch -s'.

                  It's still LXQt 2.2.0. OpenBSD -current.

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                    @izder456 said:

                    Did you have issues with the default config weirdness? When I was testing my PRs of desktop-installer to add OpenBSD support (still trying to get that imported into the ports tree), it had strange defaults like forcing you to install sudo (even if you wanted doas only), or no desktop icon theme installed by default, or the session manager popup from the "start" menu not handling power on / power off / reboot correctly (even when following the pkg-readme)?

                    I don't remember that being an issue with the icons, or if it was, I installed them shortly thereafter.

                    sudo is not currently installed ('pkg_info | grep sudo' only reveals ksudoku, a game)

                    You're right that the session manager doesn't work correctly; it only takes me back to the xenodm login screen no matter what option I select. Generally the only time I reboot is from a weekly 'syspatch -s'.

                    It's still LXQt 2.2.0. OpenBSD -current.

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                    Pardon the long reply here, I am mainly writing this so I, or someone else like you can report the accurate behavior to ports@ so things can be fixed if they need to be.

                    @unix_joe

                    @unix_joe said:

                    I don't remember that being an issue with the icons, or if it was, I installed them shortly thereafter.

                    I don't see the icons you used (papirus-icon-theme) as a depend of lxqt or lxqt-extras on -stable, but -current seems to also not have them:

                    ~ $ pkg_info -Dsnap -f lxqt | awk '/^@depend/ { print $2 }' 
                    x11/lxqt/about:lxqt-about-*:lxqt-about-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/config:lxqt-config-*:lxqt-config-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/globalkeys:lxqt-globalkeys-*:lxqt-globalkeys-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/notificationd:lxqt-notificationd-*:lxqt-notificationd-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/obconf-qt:obconf-qt-*:obconf-qt-0.16.5p1
                    x11/lxqt/panel:lxqt-panel-*:lxqt-panel-2.2.2p0
                    x11/lxqt/pcmanfm-qt:pcmanfm-qt-*:pcmanfm-qt-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/policykit:lxqt-policykit-*:lxqt-policykit-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/powermanagement:lxqt-powermanagement-*:lxqt-powermanagement-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/qterminal:qterminal-*:qterminal-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/qtermwidget:qtermwidget-*:qtermwidget-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/qtplugin:lxqt-qtplugin-*:lxqt-qtplugin-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/session:lxqt-session-*:lxqt-session-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/themes:lxqt-themes-*:lxqt-themes-2.2.0
                    ~ $ pkg_info -Dsnap -f lxqt-themes | awk '/^@depend/ { print $2 }'
                    x11/gtk+4,-guic:gtk4-update-icon-cache-*:gtk4-update-icon-cache-4.22.2
                    

                    sudo is not currently installed ('pkg_info | grep sudo' only reveals ksudoku, a game)

                    It seems to be related to x11/lxqt/sudo (or lxqt-sudo being installed by lxqt-extras):

                    ~ $ pkg_info -f lxqt | awk '/^@depend/ { print $2 }'
                    x11/lxqt/about:lxqt-about-*:lxqt-about-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/config:lxqt-config-*:lxqt-config-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/globalkeys:lxqt-globalkeys-*:lxqt-globalkeys-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/notificationd:lxqt-notificationd-*:lxqt-notificationd-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/obconf-qt:obconf-qt-*:obconf-qt-0.16.5p0
                    x11/lxqt/panel:lxqt-panel-*:lxqt-panel-2.2.2
                    x11/lxqt/pcmanfm-qt:pcmanfm-qt-*:pcmanfm-qt-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/policykit:lxqt-policykit-*:lxqt-policykit-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/powermanagement:lxqt-powermanagement-*:lxqt-powermanagement-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/qterminal:qterminal-*:qterminal-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/qtermwidget:qtermwidget-*:qtermwidget-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/qtplugin:lxqt-qtplugin-*:lxqt-qtplugin-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/session:lxqt-session-*:lxqt-session-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/themes:lxqt-themes-*:lxqt-themes-2.2.0
                    ~ $ pkg_info -f lxqt-extras | awk '/^@depend/ { print $2 }'
                    meta/lxqt,-main:lxqt-=2.1.0:lxqt-2.1.0
                    x11/lxqt/lximage-qt:lximage-qt-*:lximage-qt-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/openssh-askpass:lxqt-openssh-askpass-*:lxqt-openssh-askpass-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/pavucontrol-qt:pavucontrol-qt-*:pavucontrol-qt-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/runner:lxqt-runner-*:lxqt-runner-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/screengrab:screengrab-*:screengrab-3.0.0
                    x11/lxqt/sudo:lxqt-sudo-*:lxqt-sudo-2.2.0
                    

                    It's still LXQt 2.2.0. OpenBSD -current.

                    I checked on -stable in above, but this sudo thing seems to be true for -current as well if you have lxqt-extras installed:

                    ~ $ pkg_info -Dsnap -f lxqt-extras | awk '/^@depend/ { print $2 }'
                    meta/lxqt,-main:lxqt-=2.1.0:lxqt-2.1.0
                    x11/lxqt/lximage-qt:lximage-qt-*:lximage-qt-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/openssh-askpass:lxqt-openssh-askpass-*:lxqt-openssh-askpass-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/pavucontrol-qt:pavucontrol-qt-*:pavucontrol-qt-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/runner:lxqt-runner-*:lxqt-runner-2.2.0
                    x11/lxqt/screengrab:screengrab-*:screengrab-3.0.0p0
                    x11/lxqt/sudo:lxqt-sudo-*:lxqt-sudo-2.2.0
                    

                    You're right that the session manager doesn't work correctly; it only takes me back to the xenodm login screen no matter what option I select. Generally the only time I reboot is from a weekly 'syspatch -s'.

                    I wonder if adding your user to the _shutdown group would fix this.

                    # usermod -G _shutdown <username>

                    Could you try that and see if that fixes the session manager and report back?

                    iz (she/her)

                    > i like to say mundane things,
                    > there are too many uninteresting things
                    > that go unnoticed.

                    izder456 (dot) neocities (dot) org

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                      I added unix_joe to the shutdown group and gave it a restart. Still takes me back to xenodm when I choose those options from the menu.

                      You are correct about papirus being manually installed. Additionally, I recall that I also installed adwaita icons to get a larger sized cursor. I don't recall what icon set, if anything, was installed by default as it has been a while.

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                        20260419-openbsd.png

                        OpenBSD current on a ThinkPad. LXQt. Daily laptop.

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                          22bc448c-0019-4ecd-b90f-dd137043291c-image.jpeg

                          Here's another screenshot. I recently rebuilt the King Gizzard portion of my music library as I had a few duplicates. shown on the left is deadbeef with a playlist open with King Gizzard's discography, and on the right it emacs editing the OpenBSD port of the well-known desktop-installer script originally for FreeBSD I have been working on cleaning up lately.

                          iz (she/her)

                          > i like to say mundane things,
                          > there are too many uninteresting things
                          > that go unnoticed.

                          izder456 (dot) neocities (dot) org

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                            A little stupidity (nothing special), just FreeBSD with KDE Plasma in VirtualBox with two virtual displays:

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                              20260419-openbsd.png

                              OpenBSD current on a ThinkPad. LXQt. Daily laptop.

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                              @unix_joe said:

                              OpenBSD current on a ThinkPad. LXQt. Daily laptop.

                              I've never used LXQt but this looks great! I'm preparing to install OpenBSD on my Dell Inspiron w/ Spectrwm, but I might try LXQt as well.

                              e: removed picture from quote

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                                In progress build out of CWM on OpenBSD, with minimal Polybar config.

                                Screenshot-2026-05-05_00-03-22.png

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                                  Same machine, different hard disk ... in progress build out of OpenBox on FreeBSD, with minimal Polybar again.

                                  Screenshot-2026-05-06_08-48-02.png

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                                    SDDM with X11Libre:

                                    dbab3a96-681c-4f93-aad6-abd36c721c89-image.jpeg

                                    Sorry. I couldn't resist the urge to replace x11/xorg with x11/xlibre, in a test environment, after someone made a throwaway comment:

                                    Wayland is very bad shit. XLibre wins

                                    Fixed by reinstalling x11/xorg 😉

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