Thanks. I never change the wallpaper on that machine and it sits on a table by my recliner and serves as my MP3 player. I just bought a new pair of
Koss PRO4AAT Titanium full-sized headphones especially for use with it.
I use a lightweight pair of
Koss KTXPRO1 Titanium open ear headphones to listen to music while I'm online and at $20 a pair they sound better than my $100 Bose earbuds.
I know what you mean, and I keep a pair of cheap headphones constantly plugged too. I commonly use
audio/mpg123 or
multimedia/mpv to listen t o mp3 tracks;
multimedia/mplayer to connect to online radio stations (for a little while I used tunapie, before it became deprecated);
www/youtube_dlto download videos;
audio/cmus to play compact disks;
multimedia/mps-youtube, to stream songs & playlists from youtube. I doubt you haven't tried it, though, were that the case, I would recommend it to you. It's an awesome port (fast, clean, does one thing and does it well), to the point I have it launched most of time on any system of any computer. Better than having Spotify installed with wine.
I wish to point out I wasn't aware of the existence of
sysutils/gkrellm2 and after having tried, i have to admit it's really nice. What I've been doing till know:
- I used to add a 'Command' Applet to my Main Panel, running
Code:
sysctl -n dev.cpu.0.temperature.
with
coretemp() enabled, in order to monitor cpu temp, or
sysutils/xmbmon daemonized with -P switch (if dealing with an AMD).
-
iostat() always running in xterm to monitor devices
-
sysutils/atop to monitor processes.
-
mail/mutt-lite with a 60s mail_check refresh rate
Amazingly, Gkrellm2 seems to roughly cover much of the job by itself.
I like jwm for the simplicity of configuring everything in the one file (startup programs, windows decorations, layout ...etc.) and the flexibility it provides. My preferred core is xorg, jwm, pcmanfm and I use pcmanfm --desktop to provide desktop icons in addition to being the file manager.
I don't tend to use menus, instead I use desktop icons and the bottom left where the menu icon might usually be is just a showdesktop control (toggle). I also have a tray menu that opens the applications folder up for other less regularly used programs. Anything else I invoke either by pressing the Special_R (right WIN key) that pops up a run program dialog, or I use the desktop ... that I have predominately set to be a terminal session (xterm). I have little desire for pretty picture wallpapers, as I can just open up some pretty pictures interactively if I feel the urge.
Rufwoof, a perfect example of the flexibility you're speaking about lays in the fact I actually rather holding a more classical environment, with a bottom bar, an application menu accessible on the left corner, and some useful shortcuts on desktop; thus my JWM build somehow reminds LXDE, and more specifically resembles the JWM configuration Puppy Linux uses by default, to which it's inspired. I might post it later on.
Nonetheless your desktop seems original, simple but intriguing, so you did well posting it here
396 packages installed in total, most of which are installed as part of xorg and apache openoffice (under FreeBSD I find that works better for me than LibreOffice (that I've been a long term user of)).
Well, even if you relied only on ports, 396 it's still spartan for a system designed for desktop use + apps, and for my experience its a notable goal. An old pc, and a slow connection would really benefit from such a build. I tend not to care to much about the number of ports installed, and as a result, waste more time every time a system upgrade requires a whole-ports' reinstall.
I've made it perfectly clear I multi boot different choices of desktop systems, and for evaluation purposes have set up two to look identical. You do know what identical is don't you? ....
I apologize for stepping between, but I wanted to say that for me there's no need to argue further on that. We all know that any DE/Window Manager can be perfectly comfortable if correctly configured. It's worth looking up a screenshot of a Linux Distro's that natively implies a specific desktop to see how good it is. What's more,performing a google Images research, seeking -let's say- Blackbox, will give back tons of fantastic examples, undermining the very existence of this thread.
I think the thread was opened instead with the purpose of showing if and how those WMs/DEs can be set in a FreeBSD environment, if FBSD can exploit and take advantage of any of their features, and whether any of them shows a clear pro over the other in this particular system; and apart from the nice idea of sharing one's own desktop, I think these are the other reasons for which this thread is still actively attended after years.
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