Re: dmenu: was When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

[Péter Bertalan Zoltán]

On 2019-05-07, Steve Litt wrote:

On Tue, 07 May 2019 14:47:15 -0500
Edgar Pettijohn  wrote:



I use dwm on everything so my desktop experience is the same
everywhere.


Just the man I want to talk to.

Do you have dmenu running on OpenBSD? Did you need to make adjustments
for ksh instead of sh or any other property of OpenBSD?



Hi, fellow dwm user here.

I didn't have to make any ksh adjustments or anything else.

I use a number of Suckless programs, including dwm, dmenu and st. They
make for a fairly minimal and enjoyable experience on X.

I have tweaked dwm and st a bit, mostly using the user-submitted
patches. I just cloned the bare git repos to my own server and I create
a new branch for each box I use (currently this only sums up to two).
The configs are similar, but for example on a smaller screen (laptop) I
eliminate the gaps between clients to save screen estate. Also my PC can
easily handle transparency for st, but my laptop couldn't.

I also have a few very handy shortcuts for launching qutebrowser for
example (Super + Shift + U). I also set keybinds for `shutdown -p now`
and `shutdown -r now`, because I like to just press three keys when I
want to poweroff.

Actually, I've been through i3 and bspwm as well and only recently got
familiar with dwm. Absolutely beats both IMO.

--
Bertalan Zoltán Péter

Re: dmenu: was When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

[Edgar Pettijohn]

On May 7, 2019 3:39 PM, Steve Litt  wrote:
>
> On Tue, 07 May 2019 14:47:15 -0500
> Edgar Pettijohn  wrote:
>
>
> > I use dwm on everything so my desktop experience is the same
> > everywhere.
>
> Just the man I want to talk to.
>
> Do you have dmenu running on OpenBSD? Did you need to make adjustments
> for ksh instead of sh or any other property of OpenBSD?
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>

I haven't used it in a while, but I don't think I had to make any adjustments. 
The only app I start frequently is Firefox. So I just do a:

$ firefox &

Then switch to a different window for it to open in.

I vaguely recall using the Arch wiki for setting up dmenu.

Good luck.

Re: dmenu: was When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

[Mohamed Fouad]

works like a sharm

On Tue, 7 May 2019, 6:14 pm Sean Howard  I compiled dwm and dmenu directly and then just wrote an xinitrc, no
> adjustments necessary to be functional
>
> On Tue, May 7, 2019, 16:42 Steve Litt  wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 07 May 2019 14:47:15 -0500
> > Edgar Pettijohn  wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I use dwm on everything so my desktop experience is the same
> > > everywhere.
> >
> > Just the man I want to talk to.
> >
> > Do you have dmenu running on OpenBSD? Did you need to make adjustments
> > for ksh instead of sh or any other property of OpenBSD?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > SteveT
> >
> >
>

Re: dmenu: was When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

[Sean Howard]

I compiled dwm and dmenu directly and then just wrote an xinitrc, no
adjustments necessary to be functional

On Tue, May 7, 2019, 16:42 Steve Litt  wrote:

> On Tue, 07 May 2019 14:47:15 -0500
> Edgar Pettijohn  wrote:
>
>
> > I use dwm on everything so my desktop experience is the same
> > everywhere.
>
> Just the man I want to talk to.
>
> Do you have dmenu running on OpenBSD? Did you need to make adjustments
> for ksh instead of sh or any other property of OpenBSD?
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>
>

dmenu: was When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

[Steve Litt]

On Tue, 07 May 2019 14:47:15 -0500
Edgar Pettijohn  wrote:

 
> I use dwm on everything so my desktop experience is the same
> everywhere.

Just the man I want to talk to.

Do you have dmenu running on OpenBSD? Did you need to make adjustments
for ksh instead of sh or any other property of OpenBSD?

Thanks,

SteveT