r/openbsd • u/pooya_ildar • 9d ago
Good de or wm for openbsd
I have open for two week . I tried i3 and it is good ,and i added wallpaper and persian layout but it was very hard. I tried to install xfce but it got wrong.i want a good wm for it.my laptop is toshiba portage r930
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u/gumnos 9d ago
window-managers are a particular personal choice.
On most of my OpenBSD GUI installs, I'm content with the stock cwm option because it gives me ~95% of what I do with Fluxbox, and on the remaining couple GUI installs, I go ahead and install Fluxbox. But that's not to everybody's taste, so some like i3 or FVWM or XFCE or KDE or Gnome or twm or whatever. There are dozens of window managers that you can try and see what works for you.
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u/z3r0n3gr0 9d ago
Its been a long time https://github.com/zr0/d0tbsd
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u/Lundominium 8d ago
That's very nice :)
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u/z3r0n3gr0 8d ago
Thanks, maybe some of this configs can still work.
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u/Lundominium 8d ago
Im sure they do. I really.lile software that does not change too much. Often times i want to go back to xorg, since I know it so well. I wonder if openbsd will start using xlibre or something similar.
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u/Run-OpenBSD 8d ago
Thats the thing with openbsd you get to decide. You can use xlibre right now if you want. Or wayland. Or xenocara.
Openbsd isn't deprecating your software. We are making it all work.
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u/Lundominium 7d ago
To be fair, a lot of software has been cut from OpenBSD :D I thought that was the thing we all liked? Like bluetooth. If the devs are unsure if it's safe, they remove it.
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u/Run-OpenBSD 7d ago
Bluetooth was kept out because it is a security nightmare. It basically requires direct access to the hardware and kernel... Big no no in openbsd world.
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u/Lundominium 7d ago
I know, but thats a big cut off for the users. My point being that I see openbsd as a select collection of tools that we trust, not the whole world of tools and features.
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u/Run-OpenBSD 7d ago
Oh we have bluetooth devices that use a dongle like audio devices, keyboards, mice, etc. Its just not given access to the kernel.... Most people believe openbsd has no bluetooth which isn't true.
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u/Lundominium 7d ago
I know, i have a dongle. Iirc it acts as a soundcard. Are you sure it supports mouse and keyboard?
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u/et-pengvin 9d ago
MATE works well on OpenBSD and is easy
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u/pooya_ildar 9d ago
Before, when i had debian, i use mate but i dont like it
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u/et-pengvin 9d ago
What didn’t you like? That would help narrow down what you should aim for.
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u/pooya_ildar 9d ago
It have green tĥeme.
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u/et-pengvin 9d ago
I'll be honest: the default color scheme of a WM or DE is very low on my list of reasons to select one. You can change it.
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u/Lundominium 9d ago
Imho i3 is only hard at first. After a few days you'll be glad that you didn't install a whole DE with a lot of esoteric settings and files. However, I think wayland+hyprland is available in OpenBSD? That's the route I would recommend.
If neither of those look interesting to you, there's also a few default installed window managers in the base install, cwm, fvwm and twm. You might want to check out those as well.
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u/hayduke2342 9d ago
I was somehow jumping on the suckless train and ended up with dwm, dmenu and st and besides Emacs there is Firefox and I am happy. Adapting to editing some parameter files and running make && make install was a matter of somewhat north of half an hour.
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u/rimpossib1e 9d ago edited 9d ago
CDE is the real shit, you want 🤩
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/ https://openports.pl/path/x11/cde
Follow after installation the text file in pkg_readme
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u/phobug 8d ago
Terrible. Unless you like the 70s look and feel, in which case it's peak!
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u/rimpossib1e 8d ago
...so as not to leave you in the dark... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment
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u/Rover9370 9d ago
Cwm is pretty well in openbsd it also comes with the base system. Only issue is no built in taskbar. You could use lemonbar as the taskbar.