Submit screenshots of all your BSD desktops, themes, and configurations, or submit anything else that will make BSD hackers happy. Show the world how sexy your BSD can be! So what does your BSD look like? CLI/GUI/WM? Please post a Screen Shot of your BSD OS running on real hardware or even in an emulator like QEMU/VMware if you’d like :smile: Here is mine : OpenBSD + CWM + Tray App+ Lenovo G500

NetBSD + SLiM config : https://github.com/OS108/OS108/tree/master/os108-slim-theme-default

Gonna share again my IceWM setup too

Gonna share too my setup again ?, icewm in all its glory.

Found another really nice gtk-theme I would like to share with you all! Still love the one I was using previously but, its nice to change sometimes ? Here's a shot of the Harvest variant ?

So, is Ghost fetched as FreeBSD?!

GhostBSD is based on FreeBSD and just adds a graphical environment out of the box. I, as a novice, just right for a start

deadblackclover Yes, I know ghost is based on FreeBSD. I was just curious. There are dozens of linux distros based on ubuntu and/or arch, but when you use screenfech/neofetch their own logo is displayed. Guess ghost didn't bother doing their own ascii art ? Anyway, nice looking screen.

What does your BSD look like?

JuvenalUrbino Thanks for sharing it ❤️

JuvenalUrbino

pin well, guess I'm spoiled enough to have got used to them :-.

masetrax

Basic set-up currently. Not minding the plain background too much.

As always, CWM, though I switch between dwm and sdorfehs every now and then.

Going to look at customising Xenodm shortly.

pfr

masetrax though I switch between dwm and sdorfehs every now and then

I only recently came across sdorfehs and its also recently been added to pkgsrc thanks to @pin
I haven't yet had any time to really play with it, but I plan to. How long have you used it? I might pick your brain at some point if you don't mind (instead of bothering the dev on GitHub).

burntnoodle

masetrax
I look at what you say...I see what you hope to customize soon, and I'm like...

sdorfehs? Xenodm?

😮 😕 😵

...I just thought I knew some stuff! 😂

pfr

masetrax Not that I intend to use it, but just clarifying. Does Xenodm work on other BSD's as well as OpenBSD? I read somewhere that Xenodm doesn't support XDMCP because of security vulnerabilities and it only supports the BSDauth code used in OpenBSD?

masetrax

pfr

I've only just installed it on this laptop, but previously I ran the @jcs fork of ratpoison that it is based on, on and off for a while. Happy to help if there are any curly ones, it should tie in pretty closely with ratpoison documentation though.

burntnoodle

I'm not that clever - these are a forked improvment of ratpoison, and implementation of XDM, respectively.

pfr

Yes, as far as I'm aware, Xenodm is OpenBSD only.

P.S I noticed you are in Melbourne, I'm in Perth - g'day mate!

burntnoodle

pin
Hahaha!

JuvenalUrbino

pfr I read somewhere that Xenodm doesn't support XDMCP because of security vulnerabilities

XDMCP bits were removed not because of known unpatched vulnerabilities (otherwise any other *nix system around would be currently vulnerable), but because XDMCP happens to be an extremely old and obsolete telnet-like protocol, which is inherently insecure as it does not encrypt your traffic. Can't see why somebody would opt for it in 2021 (nobody I'm aware of as a matter for fact), given the many valid and more reliable alternatives around for remote desktop management, even among the simple/lightweight ones (.e.g. ssh-X11-forwarding).

masetrax I'm not that clever - these are a forked improvment of ratpoison, and implementation of XDM, respectively.

masetrax Yes, as far as I'm aware, Xenodm is OpenBSD only.

Xenodm is more of 'light' fork of XDM, always kept in sync with freedesktop's upstream and developed in parallel with it; afaict Xenodm is indeed XDM without XDMCP and patched to support BSDAuth as opposed to OpenPAM.
From a user perspective this doesn't change practically nothing so if @pfr wanted to theme XDM for it to look like OpenBSD's login screen, they might as well borrow the /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources file from OpenBSD's sources.

masetrax Correct, startx no longer works

that was fixed long ago

pfr

masetrax
This might be getting a little off -topic for this thread, but is it esential to have a login/display manager on current versions of OpenBSD? Is startx no longer supported?

masetrax

pfr

Correct, startx no longer works. You can choose to have OpenBSD boot straight to the Xenodm login, or enter into a shell, and run doas xenodm to sign-in and get to your graphical display.

pfr

masetrax Ok, thanks for clarifying. I just did a bit of googling and although I probably couldn't explain it to someone else it does make sense, for OpenBSD especially to not start an Xorg server with root privileges.

Anyway, I'm keen to see your sdorfehs config (and perhaps a screenshot of it too) 😄

rvp

masetrax Correct, startx no longer works

startx works just fine on OpenBSD-6.8. It's how I run X.

pfr I just did a bit of googling and although I probably couldn't explain it to someone else it does make sense, for OpenBSD especially to not start an Xorg server with root privileges.

Most Xorg servers these days don't need to run with root powers: OpenBSD's and Linux's don't; FreeBSD uses a setuid wrapper--the main program is ordinary. All of them use the modesetting driver. If you have working DRMKMS on NetBSD, you can remove the setuid bit from Xorg and use startx to run it. My intel driver works just fine like this. Don't know if running via xdm etc. still needs a setuid X.

masetrax

rvp

You are correct. For some reason, i thought it was deprecated.

pfr

Pretty vanilla set-up, using a variant of @jcs config file. All i've edited are the keybindings for my default programs really, and some additional gap space to have my little stat bar at the bottom.

pfr

Ok, a WIP screenshot... I'm trying out a light theme for the first time. I'm still using frankenwm with unibar however this light theme was heavily inspired by the sdorfehs screenshot
...Okay, its identical but I'm not that creative so give me a break 😅

The system info fetch is actually something I hacked together. It's pretty much the code from ufetch thrown together with some ascii art that I found on someone else's custom MacOS fetch.

Also thanks to @JuvenalUrbino's recent reddit post, I've finally deleted scrot and took this screenshot with
xwd -root -silent | xwdtopnm | pnmtopng > aliased to dumproot 🍻

Interestingly, this method doesn't show the X cursor in the shot which is a bonus!

EDIT: in case anyone noticed, I edited the fetch a little and uploaded a new screenshot.

JuvenalUrbino

pfr Also thanks to @JuvenalUrbino's recent reddit post, I've finally deleted scrot and took this screenshot with
xwd -root -silent | xwdtopnm | pnmtopng > aliased to dumproot

I'm used to pipe xwd through either netpbm commands (like you did above) or ImageMagick (convert can handle .xwd among the others, you just need to clarify the format on the command line) depending on which of the 2 I've installed (not infrequently both):

XWD/ImageMagick script to take a root window dump and name it after current date:

#!/bin/sh
DIR=$HOME/Pictures/Screenshots
xwd -silent -root | convert xwd:- $DIR/"$(echo root.$(date +'%Y%M%d%H%m%S'))".png

To take a dump of the currently focused window:

#!/bin/sh
DIR=$HOME/Pictures/Screenshots
ID=$(xprop -root 32x '\t$0' _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW | awk {'print $2'})
xwd -silent -id $ID | convert xwd:- $DIR/"$(echo term.$(date +'%Y%M%d%H%m%S'))".png

pfr

masetrax using a variant of @jcs config file. All i've edited are the keybindings for my default programs really, and some additional gap space to have my little stat bar at the bottom.

Could I take a peek at how you've edited it just to get an idea of the format etc. Seeing the default config and an edited one side by side help me understand whats going on a little better 😁

masetrax

pfr

The config is on the left hand side 😄

Otherwise github dot com slash mastrax slash dots. The file is called config. Also check the dotfiles-old folder for the ratpoisonrc I used to use - the commands will work with sdorfehs.

pfr

masetrax The config is on the left hand side

Haha, was viewing this on my phone and didn't zoom in far enough to notice!! 😆

masetrax

And this is how it looks when I run DWM.

Only modded with the uselessgaps patch.

Currently considering xmonad or StumpWM as my next WM to try. I like the idea of StumpWM and being able to modify on the....fly. Xmonad looks awesome too though.

pfr

JuvenalUrbino XWD/ImageMagick script to take a root window dump and name it after current date

Good idea, I've taken this suggestion and created these scripts using xwd as I don't have ImageMagick installed.
I'm curious though, is it better to call a script or to just have a long alias that does the same thing?

Any other cool tips? 😁

20-100

JuvenalUrbino Can't see why somebody would opt for it in 2021

I have seen one use case in these lock down times: using VNC with Guacamole requires an XDMCP capable display manager. It took me a while to figure this out as I had never used XDMCP before (besides playing with it just by curiosity 30 years ago). However, Guacamole's VNC support is so bad that I finally had to use XRDP. :/

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