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If your minimalist desktop is just terminal space, why bother with X?
by numlock86 4y ago
If your minimalist desktop is just terminal space, why bother with X?
- anthk 4y ago- Unicode. - Spleen/Unifont fonts. - OpenBSD base already has X. - Image and videos with nsxiv/mpv.
- gtirloni 4y agoBetter font support leading to more screen real estate.
- somat 4y agoBecause you can fit a lot of terminals on a modern display. Aha! you say, just use tmux. tmux is great, but I like the feel of a tileing window manager more than tmux.
- ninjin 4y agoWell, you could always go with dvtm [1] and skip X11. [1]: https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm
- MonkeyClub 4y agoOr just Ctrl-Alt-Fn to the nth console (enabled in /etc/ttys). Unless you’re coming in through com0, that is.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoX is already installed on OpenBSD, might as well use it.
- danielnechtan 4y agoVirtual desktop 1 (pictured) is just tmux with a bunch of communications programs I have. Virtual Desktop 2: Firefox, sometimes an additional terminal Virtual Desktop 3: More GUI apps, though often vim split with something else, depending on what I'm working on. I use plenty GUI-based software, but there's a lot of unnecessary bloat - both in resources and on the eyes - that we can do without.