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

@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

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.

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.

@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?

@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.

@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.

@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.

@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.

OpenBSD current on a ThinkPad. LXQt. Daily laptop.

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

Same desktop as I used to run using OpenBSD

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.

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:

Desktop: LXQt
Windowmanager: XFWM4
Graphics Platform: X11

Themes:
LXQt: Graphite
Icon/GTK/QT: Qogir
Wallpapers by Orbite Lambda <@orbite@mastodon.social>

Hardware:

• "Tianve" | HP-250 G3: OpenBSD 7.8 amd64 (screenshot)
  https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=77494a1526

• "Tionisla" | Dell Latitude e6540: FreeBSD 15.0
  https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7e1c664559

• "Zaonce" | Dell Inspiron 1525: GhostBSD 25.02-R14.3p8
  https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=2904d8ae09

Customization:
Workflow evolved step by step from my early days using afterstep / windowmaker.
Maximized windows have no windowtitlebar. All visible panels are on "intellihide" and will get out of the way when a window overlaps or is maximized but will reappear when you hit the respective border like a transient overlay.
Not visible in the upper right corner is an autohide panel with window action (min, max, X) buttons for the maximized windows. Using not real tiling but some fixed manual positioning.

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