![]() It takes a little effort, but if you're a Linux user looking to expand your skills. This way, you end up with a desktop distribution with a very solid FreeBSD branch. Although the BSD distribution is not what you would call a user-friendly distribution, a hands-on installation is a good way to become familiar with how to handle the Text (Ncurses) installation process and complete the installation from the command line. As of August 2017, the latest stable release (0.8.6) is available. MidnightBSD (named after Lucas' cat Midnight) is still being actively (albeit slowly) developed. To that end, he began developing a MidnightBSD desktop distribution. Around 2007, Lucas Holt wanted to create a branch of FreeBSD using the GnuStep implementation of OpenStep's (now Cocoa) Objective-C framework, widget toolkit, and application development tools. The first version of FreeBSD was released in 1993 and continues to evolve. by Navya Sarraf Category:įreeBSD is an open source operating system derived from the well-known Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Software suite. Open xterm now, through either method, and you will be greeted by xterm opening in your workspace.Posted on April 4, 2023, 10:25 p.m. You can access xterm through the root window menu by navigating to Applications -> Terminals -> xterm and clicking it. ![]() This menu is where you will be launching most of your programs, and it can be customised to host buttons that run specific commands or scripts. The root window menu, visible in the image above on the left-hand side, is accessible by right clicking on your workspace – the blank background area that looks like a desktop.Īs you can see, the menu has a lot of submenus and items. ![]() It won’t have an icon to begin with, but the icon will appear the first time you run it. The second item is xterm, X11’s terminal emulator. Clicking that will open Window Maker’s preferences, which we will come to shortly. The very first item in the default dock is the Window Maker Preferences panel. You can add new items to it by dragging them to the dock, and you can open any of the items in the dock by clicking on their icon. The dock, visible in the image above on the right-hand side of the screen, works very similarly to the macOS dock introduced with Mac OS X. The root window menu (left) and the dock (right). You should be greeted with your new Window Maker window manager in its default configuration. Let’s go ahead and start X11 by entering the startx command. There should be no additional configuration to make at this stage, as X11 will detect your system configuration automatically and create all of its configuration files by itself. X11 is now configured to open Window Maker when you run it. In the same way we entered the doas configuration, go ahead and enter the following in the new file, then write it to your disk and quit Vim. Entering touch ~/.xinitrc will create an empty file of that name at that location. Terminal Tip: If you want to create a file without using an editor such as Vim, use touch. Vim should open up again, this time with the new file that we have specified. We’re going to do this in Vim! vim ~/.xinitrc We have to create a new file, ~/.xinitrc, and use that to tell X11 to start Window Maker. You can use X11’s default window manager, twn, but it isn’t very versatile. Once everything is installed, we need to tell X11 what window manager to use. I and your FreeBSD install will still be here when you get back. If you finished the drink you fetched during the last package installation, feel free to get another. Confirm you want to install the packages, and we’re off. Now that we have doas installed, we no longer need to log in as root via any other method. ![]() Let’s run the pkg command required to get Window Maker installed from your user account. It will look the same on any operating system, we just won’t have the same applications. In case you want to take a look at it before installing it, you can see it in action in this Debian GNU/Linux screenshot. Window Maker is a window manager that uses X11 to draw graphical applications on your screen. ![]() X11 is the 11th version of the X Window System, a framework used to develop windowing systems that allow you to see, use and manipulate graphical windows. To get started, we’re just going to install X11 and Window Maker itself. With Vim and Doas handy, you’re ready to start conquering the world! Well, maybe not the world, but you’re at least ready to start conquering FreeBSD! Part 3: Getting Started With Window Maker ![]()
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