Xfce

OpenBSD Workstation for the People

       2120 words, 10 minutes

This is an attempt at building an OpenBSD desktop than could be used by newcomers or by people that don’t care about tinkering with computers and just want a working daily driver for general tasks. Somebody will obviously need to know a bit of UNIX but we’ll try to limit it to the minimum.

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Adding variable tiling width ratio and gaps to XFCE xfwm4

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After a lot of desktop environment and window manager hoping, I’ve settle down with XFCE. I find it customizable, pretty and fast. But after all my hoping, I’ve always missed a couple of things learned from the tiling window manager world: resizable master area and gaps. Here a couple of patches I wrote to enable those two features for Xfwm4.

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Getting XFCE Global Menu working on OpenBSD

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One thing I miss from Mac OS user interface is the Global Menu that sits on the topbar and changes as you switch applications. It saves a bit of space on the screen. And it’s always on the same place which makes it easy to be reached wherever the app is. After quite a lot of trial & errors, I could have the vala-panel-appmenu working on OpenBSD 7.0 using XFCE 4.16.

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A NomadBSD look for OpenBSD

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The other day, I stumbled upon NomadBSD ; a live system for USB drives. I don’t use FreeBSD… but I liked to look of that “(…) desktop system that works out of the box (…)”. So I decided to give a little make up to my already-running-out-of-the-box OpenBSD.

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OpenBSD with Mint sauce

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If you like the Linux Mint look but you run OpenBSD, you’re only a few ops to getting a pretty green desktop.

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