Show off your *BSD desktop!
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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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NetBSD 11rc2 with ctwm, conky, hot-babe and urxvt. Oh and it runs snac (https://larry.weirdr.net/). On a 486.
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NetBSD 11rc2 with ctwm, conky, hot-babe and urxvt. Oh and it runs snac (https://larry.weirdr.net/). On a 486.
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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
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NetBSD 11rc2 with ctwm, conky, hot-babe and urxvt. Oh and it runs snac (https://larry.weirdr.net/). On a 486.
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NetBSD 11rc2 with ctwm, conky, hot-babe and urxvt. Oh and it runs snac (https://larry.weirdr.net/). On a 486.
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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
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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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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.
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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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.
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.
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-4.22.2sudo 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-2.2.0It'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-2.2.0You'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?
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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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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.
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A little stupidity (nothing special), just FreeBSD with KDE Plasma in VirtualBox with two virtual displays:
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