the work I did on perfecting desktop-installer on OpenBSD has been merged.

[izder456]

This additionally adds gnome and kde support too.

also there's a wip installer for the script for the time being while its not in the official openbsd ports collection.

I plan on re-submitting the ports to ports@ once the ports tree unlocks again.

https://github.com/outpaddling/desktop-installer/blob/master/OpenBSD/getting-started.md

[naltun]

Great work! I've always manually set up OpenBSD (I remember desktop-installer but I don't think it supported what I wanted before). Will definitely try this on my Dell Inspiron I'm installing OpenBSD on this week

[izder456]

@naltun report your experience to this thread please when you do:
https://github.com/outpaddling/desktop-installer/issues/30

thanks for the kind words!

[CiotBSD]

Hi.

I've just to read only the "OpenBSD installer".

About Xfce, it seems me that it's missing this: usermod -G _shutdown,wheel <username>

• _shutdown to shutdown or reboot sys, since 7.4
• wheel to manage/enable the sleep and hibernate functions

For Gnome, it's seems to needed to manage limits, like on /etc/login.conf:

gnome:\
    :datasize-cur=1024M:\
    :tc=default:

and adding user to gnome: usermod -L gnome <username>
(see the pkg_readme of gnome)

[izder456]

@CiotBSD said:

Hi.

I've just to read only the "OpenBSD installer".

About Xfce, it seems me that it's missing this: usermod -G _shutdown,wheel <username>

• _shutdown to shutdown or reboot sys, since 7.4
• wheel to manage/enable the sleep and hibernate functions

We use consolekit for this on supported desktops, including xfce, like the pkg-readme says to. This change isn't needed. Also by default the regular user made in the installer of the OpenBSD system is in :wheel by default.

For Gnome, it's seems to needed to manage limits, like on /etc/login.conf:

gnome:\
    :datasize-cur=1024M:\
    :tc=default:

and adding user to gnome: usermod -L gnome <username>
(see the pkg_readme of gnome)

I see no mention of login class settings for gnome in the pkg-readme.

Also don't set this. This is lower than the default class, and will likely break things:

default:\
        :path=/usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin:\
        :umask=022:\
        :datasize-max=1536M:\
        :datasize-cur=1536M:\
        :maxproc-max=256:\
        :maxproc-cur=128:\
        :openfiles-max=1024:\
        :openfiles-cur=512:\
        :stacksize-cur=4M:\
        :localcipher=blowfish,a:\
        :tc=auth-defaults:\
        :tc=auth-ftp-defaults:

[CiotBSD]

OK, It seems oldier infos. My bad!

[naltun]

@izder456 said:

@naltun report your experience to this thread please when you do:
https://github.com/outpaddling/desktop-installer/issues/30

thanks for the kind words!

et voila

Thanks for the work on desktop-installer @izder456 I'll update the PR with my experience when I get a chance

e: retake screenshot

e: I added a comment in the PR thread