On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Brynet wrote: > Hi, > > I know not everyone uses OpenBSD for a desktop OS, but I have been for > nearly 5 years and I'm quite curious about some of your opinions? do you > embrace minimalism or pure aesthetics? are the two mutually exclusive? > > When I started using OpenBSD (..around 3.7) I was frequently switching > between window managers, tweaking.. but for 2 years now I've been using > fluxbox and I believe I'm comfortable with it. > > * Do you use one of the bundled window managers like > cwm(1)/twm(1)/fvwm(1) or something else?
I'm using OpenBSD since a couple of years. I was using ion, then switched to dwm not long ago, and find it kind of my ideal wm. > * What other utilities do you find useful, any "dockapps" or similar > applets? personal customizations? roxterm/mlterm (easier with multilanguage and widechar, scim etc. but roxterm is real slow!), alpine (could never get mutt to work properly with unicode, so gave up), mpd/ncmpc, mplayer, w3m/firefox/lynx, pidgin, vim, texlive, abiword (sic!), xpdf/acroread, feh postgresql/psql/pgadmin3 I guess that's about all I need. > * Do you try to keep things uniform across other desktops? I only have one:) > * What does your environment look like? anyone willing to post > screenshots or actual workspace photos? http://imagebin.ca/view/RK07pI.html with external monitor attached on my laptop with "xrandr --output LVDS --auto --output VGA --auto --right-of LVDS" > > I realize none of this may be relevant or even useful, but I figured it > was worth asking here anyway. b There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.b Bertrand Russell > > Anyone feel like humouring me? :-) > > Thanks. > -Bryan.
