FreeBSD Screen Shots

[hexaitos]

Nothing special so far to be honest, this is my first FreeBSD install! Got XFCE4 running on X11 with the Chicago95 theme because I kinda like the Windows 95 aesthetic, though I feel like I will probably switch to a more modern-looking theme soon-ish. Been really enjoying FreeBSD so far, though!

 

[fmc000]

Let's stay on topic, please.

 

[thedaemon]

Here is my dual monitor setup, with X11. 180Hz and 60Hz...Just fired up a game and it was running at 180FPS so I don't know what you guys are on about. I am not always using the 2nd monitor, as it's a Wacom One, tablet monitor. I usually just run the 1 monitor though. I prefer a clean desk space.

Running cwm, kitty, anvil editor.

 

[fmc000]

 

[hummo]

I really like minimal setups.
Feel free to use my little drawing however you like!

 

[blackbird9]

14.2-RELEASE with windowmaker desktop and near real-time satellite image wallpaper. Banner on root window created with xosd. This is on my thinkpad X201.

 

[rmomota]

XFCE4 is gone since last pkg upgrade!
I hate when something that I was running from (happens a lot with Linux distros) had hit me again!

 

[rmomota]

I really like minimal setups.
Feel free to use my little drawing however you like!

I really wounder what you're able do with that
You must be some sort of genius guy that's able to do much with such few resources.
Congrats! I really appreciate that.

 

[rmomota]

Nothing special so far to be honest, this is my first FreeBSD install! Got XFCE4 running on X11 with the Chicago95 theme because I kinda like the Windows 95 aesthetic, though I feel like I will probably switch to a more modern-looking theme soon-ish. Been really enjoying FreeBSD so far, though!

widows 95, yes I mistyped!
that's cool but too retro to me.

 

[astyle]

XFCE4 is gone since last pkg upgrade!
I hate when something that I was running from (happens a lot with Linux distros) had hit me again!

Switch to ports, maybe? FreeBSD's Ports are part of the very reason I left Linux behind in 2017 and haven't looked back. Oh, there was ZFS, too. Not to mention that Ports were the OG, the inspiration to the Linux camp. But imitation ain't duplication.

 

[rmomota]

Switch to ports, maybe? FreeBSD's Ports are part of the very reason I left Linux behind in 2017 and haven't looked back. Oh, there was ZFS, too. Not to mention that Ports were the OG, the inspiration to the Linux camp. But imitation ain't duplication.

but xfce was installed from ports repo

 

[hummo]

I really wounder what you're able do with that
You must be some sort of genius guy that's able to do much with such few resources.
Congrats! I really appreciate that.

Well, lets say you can do anything that you could with a whole desktop environment there!
(I think i cheated on the photo, since there is a status bar there too :'))

I wouldn't say I'm a real genius with these setups, but i find them really useful and efficient to use and learn about them!

 

[Tieks]

but xfce was installed from ports repo

The port is still there, see /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4. Your ports tree is up-to-date?

 

[rmomota]

The port is still there, see /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4. Your ports tree is up-to-date?

yes, and I was able to build it.
But that wasn't necessary to do before as it was available in pkg ports repo, seems it's no longer available there.
vscode is gone too.
pkg upgrade should not remove applications that will not be reinstalled without a warning.
I got surprised that I lost some tools.

 

[astyle]

but xfce was installed from ports repo

'ports repo' doesn't provide the packages, only the Makefiles necessary to build packages from upstream sources.

 

[astyle]

pkg upgrade should not remove applications that will not be reinstalled without a warning.

Now that, I do agree with. pkg-upgrade(8) is NOT to be blindly trusted. In fact, if you use ports and your own options, use of pkg-upgrade(8) is off the table unless you have your own repo that you can point pkg(8) to.

 

[fernandel]

14.2-RELEASE with windowmaker desktop and near real-time satellite image wallpaper. Banner on root window created with xosd.


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I was WM user too and I am thinking live Openbox and start using it again.

 

[blackbird9]

I really like the conceptual design of wmaker. I remember when it came out, it was really original and a departure from everything else that was around then. Well, I guess it was based on NeXT...

It's still my fave on 'old standard' DPI screens (0.27mm dot pitch). But kde plasma on wayland really has the edge over it now on high DPI. I've got a nice 16" 4K screen... plasma on wayland is the way to go on that kind of hardware.

I was interested to find this on github the other day. I haven't tried it, but it would be nice to have a wmaker clone on wayland. Or even better if the wmaker team can port the wingz library to run native on wayland... this project looks promising, anyway!

GitHub - phkaeser/wlmaker: Wayland Maker - A Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker

Wayland Maker - A Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker - phkaeser/wlmaker

github.com

 

[fernandel]

I was interested to find this on github the other day. I haven't tried it, but it would be nice to have a wmaker clone on wayland. Or even better if the wmaker team can port the wingz library to run native on wayland... I'm sure it's a lot of work though...

GitHub - phkaeser/wlmaker: Wayland Maker - A Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker

Wayland Maker - A Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker - phkaeser/wlmaker

github.com

Thank you.
I am old fashioned and I like X and wmaker is working as I know very good.
Did you try Wayland?

 

[blackbird9]

I use wayland with kde 5 / plasma, but haven't tried the 'waylandmaker' project yet.

 

[blackbird9]

This is my plasma desktop running on wayland in 4K. That's not on freebsd right now though, that's a future project! I retained a couple of favourite dockapps that I run on the wayland x-server (wmcpuload, wmnd).

 

[blackbird9]

I just set up mpd and this nice little dockapp this evening for listening to music too...

GitHub - phillbush/wmpdart: mpd client and window maker dockapp that shows album art

mpd client and window maker dockapp that shows album art - phillbush/wmpdart

github.com

I followed this thread to set up mpd, had to make a few changes but got it to work (the main gotcha was having to change '/usr/home' to '/home' in musicpd.conf). And to run the dockapp you need:-

$ MPD_HOST=/home/XXX/.mpd/socket /usr/local/bin/wmpdart

- where 'XXX' is your user name. Then of course you can put the dockapp in the wmaker dock and control mpd with it.

Thread 'Howto: Desktop musicpd (mpd) configuration'

Jan 2, 2016

MPD audio/musicpd is one of the lightest, most responsive methods to access mp3, ogg files and internet streams. Installation entails 2 components; the daemon and one of a number of front ends. On an older i386, playback of locally stored mp3's or internet music streams uses less than 2% of the CPU.

This configuration differs from the default musicpd.conf in the following ways:
1. The daemon is started on a per user basis rather than system wide. See Arch Linux mpd wiki for more details.
2. The daemon uses a unix socket rather than going through the TCP/IP stack.
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That IS on freebsd . It works a treat. I haven't tried setting bitperfect yet...