FreeBSD Screen Shots

Just now.

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dostoievsky said:
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I just use like this, almost a default dwm with a cool dmenu helper to launch some apps and manage somethings that I stripped from sxmo
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That looks way too efficient for me :p

Like it looks like switching between apps/windows would be easy, but I'm too used to Alt-Tabbing or mouse-clicking stuff with visuals and a bit of eye-candy.

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Even though I could have Firefox side-by-side with a Terminal, I have it floating as a mostly-maximized window centered-focused, and Terminal on the right-side covered.

I know it's there to check every now and then (doing a large rsync currently), but don't necessarily want to forget about it if it's too-hidden :p, clicking it from the Taskbar is a longer mouse-move to the bottom of the screen from the center where I'm messing with Firefox, and Alt-tab requires full-interaction/focus (gotta stop what I'm doing to keyboard Alt-tab to check Terminal vs casually clicking it).
 
Argentum said:
Just now.

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Is that GNOME System Monitor? I'd keep an eye on its memory usage if it is (I left GNOME's sysmon open for 10 minutes and it was memory leaking and ate like 5GB and some swap; that was on openSUSE Linux but relatively recent last month).

Although that looks like Mate and maybe they have their own version of it? Newer GNOME versions also has a Disk I/O graph.
 
Espionage724 said:
Is that GNOME System Monitor? I'd keep an eye on its memory usage if it is (I left GNOME's sysmon open for 10 minutes and it was memory leaking and ate like 5GB and some swap; that was on openSUSE Linux but relatively recent last month).
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This is Gnome system monitor, compiled from source an can run days or weeks, not leaking. I have also Mate and KDE system monitors, but I like the Gnome monitor the most.

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Code: 
~# portversion -v gnome-system-monitor
[Reading data from pkg(8) ... - 2180 packages found - done]
gnome-system-monitor-42.0_1  =  up-to-date with port


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A custom splash screen with vt(4) and FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT​

1728831136963.pngWith a PNG that was probably too large:

Loading splash OK
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– but then boot does not proceed. No splash screen, and so on.

vlcsnap-2024-10-13-15h54m50s404.pngWith a smaller PNG (366.1 KiB):
  • two frames from a screen recording
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Pre-vt​

2008 (around five years before vt):

forums.freebsd.org

A Call for FreeBSD Artwork

We've been having a discussion over in freebsd-doc concerning splash screens (these funky pics people like to display when the OS is booting). A section on configuring these will shortly become part of the FreeBSD Handbook and the general feeling is we need more original artwork. (A few FreeBSD...
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Bonus: attached (below), the PNG that was used for the recording.

It's almost ten times as large as the FreeBSD logo:

Code: 
% exa -hl --no-permissions --no-time --no-user /boot/images
Size Name
7.7k freebsd-brand-rev.png
 14k freebsd-brand.png
 39k freebsd-logo-rev.png
375k Pickle-Bill-landscape.png
%

– don't experiment with images that may be oversize, unless you're prepared to dig yourself out of a hole with e.g. ZFS boot environments.
 

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Incidentally, stable/14 has the same capability.

splash(4) for FreeBSD-STABLE describes how to use the FreeBSD-provided red image of the orb.

chrislongros said:
Have you encountered problems with CURRENT generally?
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Never any show-stopper.

forums.freebsd.org

Living on the edge

I'm using -CURRENT on a VM where I can do snapshots in case something breaks, etc. I want to know the experience of people using -CURRENT for serious workloads. Why do you use CURRENT? How many times it broke? Do ZFS snapshots help in this case? Which other tools and processes you use to...
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freethread said:
I like a lot working on my FreeBSD XFCE desktop. It's in VirtualBox (Windows host) and I spend more time in FreeBSD VM than Windows.

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I recently moved from XFCE:
BaronBS said:
This looks like my setup. But mine it is a bit different:
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First monitor and notebook from left to right is a FBSD14.1 machine with a 1920x1080 external monitor. The monitor in the middle it is also a 1920x1080 and it is connected to the huge black box on the right with Void Linux. The T430 it is running OBSD7.5 and it is connected to the last monitor. All tree connected via barrier. (The grey notebook in the middle it is my work tool, from my company, it is not mine). All running XFCE.

Dell Latitude 5400:
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Void Linux :
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OpenBSD:
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My Latitude and my desktop are in sync using Syncthing.

And my Homelab:
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My homelab it is a old Optiplex9020 with a i5 4gen, 32gb ram, 2tb of memory and it is connected to a old 1920x1080 screen.
It is serving as a nfs server, a backup server and in the future as a virtualization server. It is currently running FBSD13.3.


Curiosity: I called this setup "Hydra", since everything is configured to work as a single system with a bunch of heads. Also, I named every ship of my fleet as BattleStar-something ;-).

See you in the CyberSpace!
Edit: Grammar
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To LXQT:

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So far, so good.
The rationale behind my move it is to prepare my setup for a future move to wayland (waiting for a good wayland sysutils/barrier alternative first).
lxqt appears to be the optimal move, since XFCE doesn't seen to be going in that direction.
 
chrislongros said:
Very beautiful. May I ask why not a bare metal installation ?
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My desktop is Windows because I mostly work on it and share it with my wife, I also have a small home server with FreeBSD, I use it mostly for archiving documents (web server and shared directories on the net, svnserver), DNS for local lan devices and few other machines, media sharing (minidlna).

I thought to dual booting my desktop, but it's better a VM, it has a lot of resources. Up to few months ago I was used to WinSCP and SSH to the server and worked in the console, on my old server I had installed XFCE and connected to it with Windows Remote Desktop, the server was old and not fast (it was an Intel Atom D525) and I no more want to install the Xorg environment on it, so working on the VM is more simple and I can test the difference to work on Windows and in XFCE on FreeBSD.

For example, in Windows I'm used to write code in Notepad++, I didn't find a corresponding editor in the unix-like world (this has nothing to do with FreeBSD), finally I discovered that Geany is the more close editor for my habits. I compile ports, so VSCode is not in my wish list and I don't go crazy for it, in Windows too.
 
BaronBS said:
editors/notepadnext
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It's parsecs from notepad++.

astyle said:
editors/kwrite is what I use, or even editors/nano for command-line.
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yes, Kate, Kwrite, etc. They pull qt and all the beagle boys, it's not bad but I like XFCE for it's lightness. However Kate is more close to notepad++, it should use GTK.

In console I'm used to mcedit (Midnight Commander), it's easy (for me) and used it (Norton Commander) for ages, key bindings has been the same from prehistory, but it's ok in console for system configuration files. Tiling editor windows in mcedit is a bravery, also with mouse, better tmux with one editor for each panel.

What I miss in an editor is having two windows side by side with each its own tabs, and also duplicating the same file in the two windows. Geany has a plugin to divide the editor window but do not work as I like. Mousepad also is a good editor, but does not split editor window. To close my semi-rant (not a rant, only a consideration, I adapt my habits with what I find) I only use few shortcut keys in an editor, Ctrl-Ins Shift-Ins Ctrl-Del to cut copy and paste, Ctrl-F or F3 to search Shift-F3 to repeat search Ctrl-Z Ctrl-Y undo redo and few other, in a desktop environment, in console I'm used to what are defined in mc, both in FreeBSD console and Windows console.
 
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