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Hi everybody,
For those that are interested in a simple way to have a FreeBSD desktop fully functional in less than 20 minutes this is my personal how-to to do it. It's in my native language (spanish) but I hope it help you. This have some links to another documents that teach how to install every desktop (Gnome, KDE, XFCE, E17... and even CDE!).
FreeBSD como sistema de Escritorio
FreeBSD como sistema de Escritorio GUÍA RÁPIDA DE INSTALACIÓN Y SUPERVIVENCIA Objetivo: Alcance: Tener un compendio de los aspectos clave a tener en cuenta durante la instalación de FreeBSD como un sistema de Escritorio Sistemas operativos FreeBSD 13.1+ Los procedimientos aquí indic...docs.google.com
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You know that 129% of global warming is caused by people who use ports over packages? I should know, I just made up that number.LMAO.
"Google Chrome is the best browser! But use pkg instead of ports due to build times" -Abraham Lincoln
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I used
pkg update to get the latest. It still doesn't show up for me. I'm using amd64 version. Does that make a difference?firefox-esr-60.5.2,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
firefox-esr-i18n-60.5.2 Localized interface for Firefox
xpi-firefox-showcase-0.9.5.6 Easily locate and select any open browser windowDo you want the same resolution that you have in openbox, and, if so, what resolution is that?
I also use the out of the box repo and it says "quarterly" in my /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf. I just changed it to "latest" and now I'm getting:
(del@dellfp10 /home/del)# pkg search firefox
pkg: Repository FreeBSD has a wrong packagesite, need to re-create database
firefox-66.0_1,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
firefox-esr-60.5.2_1,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
firefox-esr-i18n-60.5.2 Localized interface for Firefox
firefox-i18n-66.0 Localized interface for Firefox
xpi-firefox-showcase-0.9.5.6 Easily locate and select any open browser window
(del@dellfp10 /home/del)#I changed it back; I'll stick with the default configuration for now, but it's nice to know I'd be able to install it if I wanted or needed to do so.
Some of the information in those threads may or may not be outdated, but I took SirDice's advice from this post, where he says (paraphasing) Don't edit [/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf], instead create a [new] /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf and use it to overrule the default settings. So I tried it that way too, and it works the same. It was necessary to run
mkdir /usr/local/etc/pkg; mkdir /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos, also as per SirDice's instructions, before I could save the file, because those directories didn't exist before I created them. In the newly created FreeBSD.conf file, I copied and pasted:
FreeBSD: {
url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/quarterly",
mirror_type: "srv",
signature_type: "fingerprints",
fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
enabled: yes
} vi as my editor because I'm old skool like that. 
I think the latter. I switched to get the latest software.
How do I find that out? It would be great for me to know. Because I notice that the resolution is just perfect when I'm using xterm. But everything seems a bit oversized when I'm using another terminal app or another application like a file manager, etc.