On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 04:12:49PM +0200, Karel Lucas wrote: > > Hi all, > > On a desktop PC on which I have openBSD, I installed KDE. When I start the > X-window system, I still see Fvwm, and no KDE. I also want to start the X > window system when I start this PC, and that is not yet the case. How can I > solve both problems? > >
As some others have already commented, there are significant security issues with a big desktop like KDE or Gnome. FVWM in base is setup just enough to let you have an X gui. It is highly customizable to almost whatever you can come up with. FVWM2 is available in ports. It is no longer being developed. It has configuration like the built-in version. Many use it. FVWM3 is under active development and has a very similar configuration, but some notable changes. I use FVWM3 (or 2 from ports if I want to since I already am happy with the configuration I came up with.) If you want to use FVWM and you don't know how to configure it, consider using FVWM3. There is an active forum which provides lots of help. It also has a default configuration that works nicely, but I personally don't like it. It has a menu that will pull up most programs you have installed from KDE, Gnome and others like GIMP, etc. Spectrwm is also nice, small and easy to configure. There are tons of window managers, feel free to try out many until you find what you need and like. I originally came to OpenBSD from Windows, so I used KDE3 a long time ago. Easy switch. But I wouldn't use something like it ever again. xenodm is a good choice. The login screen can be easily customized and you can add functions like shutdown, reboot and a choice of different window managers to start. -- Chris Bennett
