Here's my current setup:
Custom wallpaper. It's a simple gradient fill with the FreeBSD logo superimposed.
Window manager is
x11-wm/musca.
I'm currently working on updating the
x11/fbpanel port to 6.1. That's it running at the top of the screen. Menu and launchbar on the left, taskbar buttons in the middle, the tray and various monitors & plugins (network, memory, cpu, battery, volume, tclock) on the right. I usually don't like to have those monitors cluttering up the screen and typically have only the volume and tclock to the right of the tray. But as I said, I'm currently working on the port and therefore have everything going.
Beastie start button courtesy of
eponasoft.
Musca supports both tiled and overlapped window arrangements.
Here you see two instances of
x11/roxterm and
deskutils/osmo in overlapped or "stacked" mode. That's
audio/mcplay running in the foremost roxterm.
Here's a tiled desktop. Osmo again, and mcplay in the lefthand pane. At the lower right is
pyradio, which is not yet in ports.
In both tiled and overlapped mode, a red border indicates the active pane.
As you can see, I like lighter colors. Also, since my eyesight isn't as good as it once was, a fairly large black font against a light background. I find it easier to discriminate between the letter shapes that way, while light text on a dark background often takes more effort to read. (I've been meaning to hack pyradio to change its color scheme.)
. OpenBSD also can be a destop but is more for servers / firewalls etc.
