<![CDATA[Show off your *BSD desktop!]]>Hello bsd.cafe users!

I wanted to show y'all my desktop. I thought we could start a chain of people posting their desktop setups on their machines running any of the *BSDs

I'll start. This is OpenBSD with StumpWM. Shown is emacs on the left, DeaDBeeF on the top right playing "chipmunks on 16 speed", and xterm on the bottom right. The "bar" is StumpWM's built in modeline.

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]]>https://billboard.bsd.cafe/topic/72/show-off-your-bsd-desktopRSS for NodeSun, 12 Apr 2026 00:40:18 GMTFri, 10 Apr 2026 14:57:00 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Show off your *BSD desktop! on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:56:58 GMT]]>Not a BSD desktop, but long before I switched to BSD for such roles, I had wildly different views about my desktop. Toolbars and Dock Apps everywhere, and a mantra of, "You can never find a terminal fast enough when you are angry!" Hence all the penguins, each one of those icons opens an aterm. A transparent aterm at that! I used to actually have icons, and backgrounds, and menus. I used 9 virtual work areas, the top row was for browsers, this all predated tabs in web browsers, so I tended to rock six open windows. Middle row was for communications, Gaim, Licq, mutt, etc. The bottom row was reserved for whatever I was actually worked on, so it was usually just full of terminal windows. Here we see me thrashing the SMACx demo by actually winning the game inside the 100 turn limit. The background is Forth Day from Digital Blasphemy. The WM is AfterStep. I actually had several highly rated AfterStep themes on themes.org in the late 1990s and early 2000s. I'll see if I can find a screenshot of Mesas, that one was gorgeous.

Sometime before I switched to FreeBSD as my desktop of choice, I converted to minimalism using PWM, and later Ion. These days, I use Notion. A tiny Netbook that I ran with scrotwm due to its seriously tiny screen is what converted me over to tiling WMs. I realized that toolbars were just wasted space, and backgrounds and transparent windows were just distractions for my already easily distracted ADHD brain. The rest of history. Plain, ordinary, most user hostile history.

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]]>https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/211https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/211Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:56:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Show off your *BSD desktop! on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:37:47 GMT]]>@izder456 been there https://deskto.ps/u/jcarnat, posted those.

]]>https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/https://gts.tumfatig.net/users/joel/statuses/01KNXYF57GKXTAP99HJ9BFSFGChttps://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/https://gts.tumfatig.net/users/joel/statuses/01KNXYF57GKXTAP99HJ9BFSFGCSat, 11 Apr 2026 09:37:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Show off your *BSD desktop! on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:17:19 GMT]]>@izder456 Only a "friend of bsd.cafe" (if @stefano permits...), but adding my two cents anyway:

OpenBSD with cwm, usually one maximized xterm window with tmux running in it, another maximized window for the web browser, and that's it. Actually too boring to show :flan_wink:

]]>https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/https://exquisite.social/users/thorstenzoeller/statuses/116385076241390095https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/https://exquisite.social/users/thorstenzoeller/statuses/116385076241390095Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:17:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Show off your *BSD desktop! on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:00:43 GMT]]>@izder456 mine(s):
https://social.patpro.net/@patpro/statuses/01K18MFMYCJC4WDVF1QVQ2ZMMY

]]>https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/https://social.patpro.net/users/patpro/statuses/01KNXRXDH7V8J7MAXD4TD78EY8https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/https://social.patpro.net/users/patpro/statuses/01KNXRXDH7V8J7MAXD4TD78EY8Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:00:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Show off your *BSD desktop! on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:55:44 GMT]]>"Tianve" - HP-250 G3
Operating System: OpenBSD 7.8 amd64
Desktop: LXQT 2.2.0
Windowmanager: XFWM4
Qt Version: 6.8.3
Graphics Platform: X11
Icon/GTK/QT: Qogir-Manjaro
Wallpaper by Orbite Lambda

https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=77494a1526

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#runbsd #openbsd #fishlinux #unix #foss #lxqt #desktop #screenshot #bsd

]]>https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/207https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/207Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:55:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Show off your *BSD desktop! on Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:05:06 GMT]]>My workstation is hardly exciting. It is Notion WM running on FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE. Shown are a pair of browsers showing freebsd.org and your post, and a bunch of xterms running top, fastfetch, and cbonsai. Tabbed in the background are various ssh sessions and thunderchicken. I keep things minimal, no toolbars, no buttons, just a handful of keyboard shortcuts and a black background. This is all stretched over four monitors. My left two screens are for my browsers and communications. The bottom right is generally my work area, and the top right is mission-specific, or just used to keep an eye on things.psychosis-screenshot-20260410-160123.png

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