What made you chose OpenBSD on your laptop. That seems so inefficient. If you are using Hardened just stick with it.Currently:
Work: HardenedBSD 11.0 + WindowMaker
Home: HardenedBSD 11.0 + WindowMaker
Laptop: OpenBSD 6.0 + WindowMaker
I just wanted to learn OpenBSD. Why do you think it's unefficient? I remember you being kind of OpenBSD fanboyWhat made you chose OpenBSD on your laptop. That seems so inefficient. If you are using Hardened just stick with it.
Using a multiple OSs always affects your fluency and productivity just like speaking multiple natural languages (I speak 3 on daily basis) makes you essentially non-fluent in any of them.I just wanted to learn OpenBSD. Why do you think it's unefficient? I remember you being kind of OpenBSD fanboy![]()
I run 3 routers for my own use (APU2 and 2x Edgerouter Lites). I wanted to run *BSD on it and FreeBSD with its old pf makes it not a good choice for me. Also, mips64 is tier 3 on FreeBSD, I wouldn't want my router to run basically untested and potentially unstable software, while it's perfectly stable with OpenBSD. Choosing the OS for APU2 was simple because I already had configs for OpenBSDUsing a multiple OSs always affects your fluency and productivity just like speaking multiple natural languages (I speak 3 on daily basis) makes you essentially non-fluent in any of them.
The best decision I personally made was to make an appropriate choice of OS for myself about 9 years ago and stick with that choice over the years. That made me very fluent in that particular OS. You guessed right I chose OpenBSD which is not the right choice for most people. Unfortunately I had to diversify little bit (RHEL was must, FreeBSD was sort of optional) due to my work. However I was paid for it so at the end the feeling was not the one of wasted time.
My advise to anybody would be pick one thing (one OS, one editor, one window manager) and just stick with it.
During my nearly 20 years of Linux (and now FreeBSD) use, I have gone back and forth from DE's to minimal WMs. I used to always come back to a DE but now that I have abandoned Linux and settled happily in with FreeBSD, I am happier running a minimal WM, currently x11-wm/windowmaker. Not exactly bare-bones, but it is fast and I like it. I toggle back and forth between it and x11-wm/dwm. I really like x11-wm/dwm - it is fast, minimal and the fact it is configured by C code is very cool. I am having a hard time getting used to window manipulation but I'll eventually figure it out. I do like the fact we have choices. With commercial OS's, you have no choice.
I wouldn't consider WindowMaker dead. Last release was in August 2015 and there were several commits in 2016 (see http://repo.or.cz/wmaker-crm.git/shortlog/refs/heads/next). Clearly someone out there cares for it.I installed x11-wm/windowmaker and I like it too but looks like that WN is dead. There were no activity from 2014 and mailing list I think from 2008? Do you know something more, please.
Thank you.
the only "hard" part is typing out the first 3 or so characters of an apps name in x11/dmenu.
#!/bin/sh
# dmenu requires a list of newline separated items as input.
# This items are listed at the top of the screen.
# The selected item is outputted to stdout.
# Here it is stored in the variable selection.
# In case of the result different programs are launched.
options="Mutt_Slrn"
selection=`echo $options|tr "_" "\n"|dmenu`
case $selection in
"Mutt") st -e mutt -y & ;;
"Slrn") /usr/home/chris/scripts/slrn.sh & ;;
esac
-static const char *dmenucmd[] = { "dmenu_run", "-m", dmenumon, "-fn", dmenufont, "-nb", normbgcolor, "-nf", normfgcolor, "-sb", selbgcolor, "-sf", selfgcolor, NULL };
+static const char *dmenucmd[] = { "/usr/home/chris/scripts/dmenu_wrap.sh", "-m", dmenumon, "-fn", dmenufont, "-nb", normbgcolor, "-nf", normfgcolor, "-sb", selbgcolor, "-sf", selfgcolor, NULL };
I was on the lists until recently and WM is alive indeed! Of course, it sees far less activity than many other, younger and more fashionable WMs, but bugs do get fixed, features do get implemented. There's also an ongoing effort to rebuild a curated collection of dockapps at http://www.dockapps.net and if you have a dockapp that isn't there yet, please let them know (I did just that with wmmp, which I fixed and kept in a GitHub repository for years, and they added it to the collection in a matter of minutes).I wouldn't consider WindowMaker dead. Last release was in August 2015 and there were several commits in 2016 (see http://repo.or.cz/wmaker-crm.git/shortlog/refs/heads/next). Clearly someone out there cares for it.
There's also an ongoing effort to rebuild a curated collection of dockapps at http://www.dockapps.net and if you have a dockapp that isn't there yet, please let them know (I did just that with wmmp, which I fixed and kept in a GitHub repository for years, and they added it to the collection in a matter of minutes).
I loved the hell out of Windowmaker. Its just cool. It hearkened back to the days of NeXTSTEP for me. Then once I got a taste of all of that oldschool boxy simple goodness, I wanted more. So I did NeXTSTEP+GNUstep complete with the "recycler" and everything. But for me everything kept crashing and just wasn't ready for primetime. Now I am on fbsd11 with dtwm/cde.![]()