FreeBSD Screen Shots

My last for today. Labwc with xfce4-panel, liking it very much so far.

Labwc.png
 
With hidamari for the live wallpaper, the wallpaper flames are moving



live.png
 
I believe I'm satisfied with this setup:

labwc-setup.jpg


Wayland session, running x11-wm/labwc with x11/sfwbar, sysutils/dunst and x11/rofi (all with custom themes), a GTK-2 app (math/galculator), a GTK-3 app (x11-fm/pcmanfm), a GTK-4 app (x11/tilix) themed with the dark variant of x11-themes/greybird-theme and a QT6 app (games/simsu) themed with misc/qt6ct with the "Darker" profile. Please note that to be able to theme QT6 apps you have to recompile misc/qt6ct from the ports as the binary version that is currently shipping is compiled against an older QT version and thus it doesn't work properly.
 

judd

Cool! That's a tiling wm, right? Would have been nice, if you named it. (edit: I just saw it: dwm)

That's the kind of screenschot I am interested in. I don't care about the 127th color variation of a commonly used DE, mostly presenting wallpapers... 😴

Myself: After my journey over lxde, and xfce (both to be recommended to take at least a peek at to anybody who's looking for a not-KDE and not-Gnome DE) I realized I neither need nor want any DE at all, but a pure, simple but most configurable WM, only. I use fvwm (2 [I tried 3, wasn't really satisfied, and switched back to 2]; I also have configured my own window's title bars with self-made buttons; with fvwm you can do that; screenshots of my current setup are on p75 DM 43773 March 1, 2022, and p90 %pupil -sceptical July 25, 2024)
But I also realized I don't want/need no windows at all, neither. I see no sense in having any application I'm currently using started within a (too) small box sorrounded by decorations, while the rest of the monitor is unused space only showing the wallpaper. And it annoys me for over thirty years that I always have to have an additional extra click to maximize the window to fullscreen every time e.g. I open my browser.
I have several configurations within my .fvwm/config to start my terminals in borderless fullscreen mode, and there are other "tricks"... but it all does not fully satisfy me, really.
I once somewhere read this was against the standard norm, to directly start in fullscreen mode - those who decided that shall get a restraining order from any computers.
So I'm highly interested in any (kind of) WM that gives a shit about that standard.

If you start to manipulate the tool you're using within its very core so to abuse it for it was not ment to, you shall ask yourself if you're still using the right tool, and if it's not better to change to another one.
So, I wrangle with myself for a while if a tiling WM wasn't not the thing I am truely looking for.
Some thing you may control more with the keyboard, automatically split the screen, when you open the second terminal, 3rd app...
But which there are?
And how they behave on a multihead system? (I have 4 monitors attached)

Changing to another GUI/DE/WM, again, configure it, learning it, learning how to configure it (anything saves its config as XML is out of the question) is a laborious step as I already experienced.
So I want to decide carefully.

I very much appreciate your inputs, experiences, advices on this topic.
Thanks in advance.
 

judd

Cool! That's a tiling wm, right? Would have been nice, if you named it. (edit: I just saw it: dwm)

That's the kind of screenschot I am interested in. I don't care about the 127th color variation of a commonly used DE, mostly presenting wallpapers... 😴

Myself: After my journey over lxde, and xfce (both to be recommended to take at least a peek at to anybody who's looking for a not-KDE and not-Gnome DE) I realized I neither need nor want any DE at all, but a pure, simple but most configurable WM, only. I use fvwm (2 [I tried 3, wasn't really satisfied, and switched back to 2]; I also have configured my own window's title bars with self-made buttons; with fvwm you can do that; screenshots of my current setup are on p75 DM 43773 March 1, 2022, and p90 %pupil -sceptical July 25, 2024)
But I also realized I don't want/need no windows at all, neither. I see no sense in having any application I'm currently using started within a (too) small box sorrounded by decorations, while the rest of the monitor is unused space only showing the wallpaper. And it annoys me for over thirty years that I always have to have an additional extra click to maximize the window to fullscreen every time e.g. I open my browser.
I have several configurations within my .fvwm/config to start my terminals in borderless fullscreen mode, and there are other "tricks"... but it all does not fully satisfy me, really.
I once somewhere read this was against the standard norm, to directly start in fullscreen mode - those who decided that shall get a restraining order from any computers.
So I'm highly interested in any (kind of) WM that gives a shit about that standard.

If you start to manipulate the tool you're using within its very core so to abuse it for it was not ment to, you shall ask yourself if you're still using the right tool, and if it's not better to change to another one.
So, I wrangle with myself for a while if a tiling WM wasn't not the thing I am truely looking for.
Some thing you may control more with the keyboard, automatically split the screen, when you open the second terminal, 3rd app...
But which there are?
And how they behave on a multihead system? (I have 4 monitors attached)

Changing to another GUI/DE/WM, again, configure it, learning it, learning how to configure it (anything saves its config as XML is out of the question) is a laborious step as I already experienced.
So I want to decide carefully.

I very much appreciate your inputs, experiences, advices on this topic.
Thanks in advance.
you could try i3
 
With hidamari for the live wallpaper, the wallpaper flames are moving



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Loving live wallpapers.
But i have one question - how hard on resources and does it uses gpu or cpu for "live" part ?
 
But i have one question - how hard on resources and does it uses gpu or cpu for "live" part ?
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so this means that I should not have it enabled as 22% CPU is in my opinion high.
But when using mostly terminal it makes no difference and also it has the feature to pause when we have a maximized window the CPU will go back to 0%.
It can be enabled/disabled.
 
Changing to another GUI/DE/WM, again, configure it, learning it, learning how to configure it (anything saves its config as XML is out of the question) is a laborious step as I already experienced.
So I want to decide carefully.
I first installed XFCE and I really liked it, but I have a laptop that I use antiX Linux on and from that I started playing around with herbstluftwm and it just clicked. So I put herbstluftwm on my FreeBSD desktop too.

It's super easy. I hardly use computers at all, so I say it really takes a non technical person about 30 minutes of fooling around to figure the basics out. When you are changing the autostart file you can reload and test the changes immediately (maybe all wm do that). The autostart file is written in a simple way that a child can understand. I kept mine pretty basic but has more advanced things that I have not tried like scripting stuff that you would probably be good at.

I'm using it with dmenu and feh because that is what they have it set up with on antiX. The only thing I can't seem to figure out is how to make the mouse left handed on the FreeBSD herbstluftwm. Anyway just another wm you can look at for making your decision.
 
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