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06-03-2012, 05:20 PM
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Location: Prince Rupert, B.C., Canada
Distribution: Slackware, OpenBSD
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BSD Desktop Thread
Greetings! I thought that it would be interesting to see what type of desktops that we are all running on BSD. Please feel free to display your desktop images in this thread. All BSD users are welcome. I will start. This is OpenBSD 5.1 and XFce 4.8.3. The BSDs are awesome! 
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06-04-2012, 08:49 AM
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Registered: Jan 2011
Location: Oslo, Norway
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I also run tend to setup Xfce when configuring FreeBSD for general desktop use. It super quick and simple to setup and provides a nice basic DE, without going overboard. I'd post a screenshot but it looks pretty much the same as yours (but for the default Xfce background), so it wouldn't be that interesting! :P
Edit: FreeBSD 8.3, Xfce 4.8 (is what I have been testing Opera on recently, though I have a FreeBSD 9.0 install as well)
Last edited by ruario; 06-04-2012 at 08:56 AM.
Reason: added FreeBSD and Xfce version numbders, like hitest
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06-04-2012, 06:03 PM
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There are too many images to put the all them here, just check: http://deviantart.com/?q=by:vermaden+freebsd
I used Fluxbox on FreeBSD in the past and moved in 2009 if I recall correctly to Openbox.
I use beadm ( Boot Environments) [1] on FreeBSD along with automount [2] for automatic media mounting using FreeBSD's devd(8) daemon.
Rest of the setup are: conky/lxpanel/tint2/deadbeef/pymp/opera/chromium/mplayer/geany/mousepad/nautilus/thunar/transmission/galculator/libreoffice/gimp/arandr/scrot/gpicview/feh/evince/...
[1] https://github.com/vermaden/beadm
[2] https://github.com/vermaden/automount
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06-06-2012, 05:08 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hitest
This is OpenBSD 5.1 and XFce 4.8.3. The BSDs are awesome! 
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I will post a screenie in a day or two of my current build on FreeBSD. It is using spectrwm (ex scrotwm) tiling window manager.
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06-09-2012, 11:08 AM
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I've gone back to using Fluxbox on OpenBSD 5.1 to make the most of my system resources. Fluxbox is nice and fast. 
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06-11-2012, 02:16 AM
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Well as promised, here is my FreeBSD 9.0 setup. It has a sorta retro green theme and uses the latest build of Spectrwm WM, compiled from source.
http://i.imgur.com/IR5sC.png
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06-13-2012, 12:36 AM
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I am using JWM which is VERY lightweight and fast.
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06-13-2012, 05:28 AM
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Yeah JWM is a nice lightweight WM, similar to IceWM.
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06-13-2012, 07:40 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sw2wolf
I am using JWM which is VERY lightweight and fast.
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Nice! Would you like to display a screenshot? This is a desktop (screenshot) thread. 
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06-22-2012, 11:20 AM
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Firefox, xterm, claws-mail, xchat. OpenBSD 5.1, Fluxbox. 
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06-26-2012, 07:28 PM
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Quote:
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Nice! Would you like to display a screenshot? This is a desktop (screenshot) thread. 
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ok, i will post it in attachment
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06-26-2012, 11:57 PM
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@sw2wolf: Yeah! Opera! 
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06-27-2012, 09:46 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sw2wolf
ok, i will post it in attachment
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Very nice indeed! 
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