OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop

Re:OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop by numlock86 on Monday October 17, 2022 @10:45AM (#33234196)

If your minimalist desktop is just terminal space, why bother with X?

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Re:OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop by somat on Monday October 17, 2022 @11:35AM (#33235016)

Because you can fit a lot of terminals on a modern display.

Aha! you say, just use tmux.

tmux is great, but I like the feel of a tileing window manager more than tmux.

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Re:OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop by ninjin on Monday October 17, 2022 @11:48AM (#33235224)

Well, you could always go with dvtm [1] and skip X11.

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Re:OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop by MonkeyClub on Monday October 17, 2022 @12:04PM (#33235506)

Or just Ctrl-Alt-Fn to the nth console (enabled in /etc/ttys).

Unless you’re coming in through com0, that is.

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Re:OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop by gtirloni on Monday October 17, 2022 @10:47AM (#33234214)

Better font support leading to more screen real estate.

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Re:OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop by boomboomsubban on Monday October 17, 2022 @12:54PM (#33236318)

X is already installed on OpenBSD, might as well use it.

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Re:OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop by danielnechtan on Monday October 17, 2022 @02:41PM (#33237865)

Virtual desktop 1 (pictured) is just tmux with a bunch of communications programs I have.

Virtual Desktop 2: Firefox, sometimes an additional terminal

Virtual Desktop 3: More GUI apps, though often vim split with something else, depending on what I'm working on.

I use plenty GUI-based software, but there's a lot of unnecessary bloat - both in resources and on the eyes - that we can do without.

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Re:OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop by anthk on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @05:48PM (#33268309)

- Unicode.

- Spleen/Unifont fonts.

- OpenBSD base already has X.

- Image and videos with nsxiv/mpv.

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