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  1. vermaden

    HOWTO: FreeBSD Desktop - Part 15 - Configuration - Fonts & Frameworks

    I would like to share HOWTO in ??????? ??????? series about fonts and frameworks. FreeBSD Desktop - Part 15 - Configuration - Fonts & Frameworks https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/08/18/freebsd-desktop-part-15-configuration-fonts-frameworks/ You may also like earlier articles in the series...
  2. RedPhoenix

    Post your FreeBSD Desktop! :3

    Here's mine on my HP Laptop! :3 Note the blue Taskbar, and the gold Beastie Menu icon. :)
  3. vermaden

    HOWTO: FreeBSD Desktop - Part 12 - Configuration - Openbox

    I would like to share HOWTO in ??????? ??????? series about Configuration of Openbox on FreeBSD. FreeBSD Desktop - Part 12 - Configuration - Openbox https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/07/01/freebsd-desktop-part-12-configuration-openbox/ You may also like earlier articles in the series...
  4. rigoletto@

    The Dæmon Desktop.

    Dæmon Desktop (The High-Integrity Desktop for Serious Workstations) This is a tentative to conceptualize a hypothetical ‘FreeBSD Workstation’, just in case of some entity eventually get interested on to design and implement it some day. The main inspiration for this brainstorm is the aiming to...
  5. sidetone

    Howto: light desktop setup (2018 < update)

    Xinit and XDM login managers are covered. KDM, GDM, WDM and SLiM login managers are not described here. Install The following are sufficient to install the programs for a running Desktop system: x11/xorg, x11/xdm and your chosen window manager. If you're not using a graphical desktop login...
  6. HD Scania

    Looking for other subprojects

    I have just now fresh installed TrueOS and listened to few FreeBSD subprojects like GhostBSD, MidnightBSD, DesktopBSD that both are desktop-focused like TrueOS, but ones more thanks? Ones are best if recommended (or default) desktop is Qt-written and lightweight like TrueOS and whose Lumina. :D
  7. B

    installDesktop script (pkg, x, de, basic applications)

    Hello everyone, I am new to BSD, and - like I imagine many people do - struggled through my first X desktop setup. To make things faster for me when I have to set up other machines, as well as make the process a bit easier for other newcomers, I have written a little script...
  8. kuroneko

    Why FreeBSD over Linux for desktop?

    Hello everyone. I would like to know why would FreeBSD be a better choice than Linux. I currently have Linux (Debian). So I would like to know what are the benefits of using FreeBSD as a desktop over Linux. The things I do pretty much are programming and digital art(when I feel like it), I don't...
  9. J

    Closed Why, as a programmer and desktop user, I seem I cannot give up Linux for FreeBSD

    Hello. I am a C/C++ Python and Java developer at the Elettra Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Trieste, Italy. For the control system we use and produce open source software, and we develop under linux. I have been a fan of FreeBSD since my laurea degree thesis back in 2004. To cope with work...
  10. Rand0m

    Other is Cinnamon port borken on FreeBSD 11?

    I tried both install Cinnamon from as binary from the pkgs and build it from ports, added the rc exec cinnamon session in .xinitrc and enabled the dbus, hald and slim. Yet once I login it gives me a message cinnamon crashed and if I want to try again and keep crashing.. I am using the port...
  11. J

    Resource limits in FreeBSD (kind of linux cgroups)

    Hello everyone. After a long time spent with linux (we use it for development at work), I decided to go back and have a look at FreeBSD. I used to compile software using the ports collection. On the other side, I use gentoo linux and, as a developer and building everything from source in...
  12. I

    Xfce Any good menu editors for Xfce?

    I cannot find any good menu editors. I've tried Alacarte and nothing loads. I launch it in the terminal and receive this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/alacarte", line 21, in <module> from Alacarte.MainWindow import main ImportError: No module named...
  13. fnoyanisi

    Solved GNOME3 uses caja as the default file manager

    Hi, I was using x11/mate as my desktop manager and recently decided to install x11/gnome3. There are some issues I have been struggling with; 1 ) GNOME insists using x11-fm/caja instead of x11-fm/nautilus as the main file manager 2 ) x11-fm/nautilus uses large icons, that I don't like. When I...
  14. Kalero

    Other Wifi signal icon at Lumina desktop

    Hi, I installed Lumina desktop 0.8.7 on FreeBSD 10.2 and if I look for Lumina screenshots at the web, I see they have the typical wifi signal icon at the system tray, but I can't find it in the plugins list for the panel (Lumina is a plugin based desktop). I've searched at FreeBSD packages and...
  15. V

    What is the future of FreeBSD as desktop OS?

    Is there any general plan or some general ideas about future of FreeBSD for desktop use? What developers think about the future of FreeBSD as desktop OS? What is their future vision of FreeBSD for desktop use? Is the desktop part important part of development of FreeBSD?
  16. Andreas Tieben

    MATE Mate Desktop forgets or does not store permanently the desired Keyboard Layout-HowTo!

    Mate-Desktop forgets or does not store permanently the desired Keyboard-Layout (e.g. German, French or whatever) - HowTo: In some cases it could happen that after every restart or Log-out from Mate, the Keyboard is again in the state kind Layout (usually English!) and the desired...
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