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UNIX FOR THE DESKTOP

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21 SEPTEMBER 2025
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The year 2020 transformed my personal computing experience. In March 2020, I +stumbled upon Arch Linux and discovered that I could customize my desktop +environment to look and work any way I liked. I exercised that newfound freedom +to create a Matrix-themed setup:

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Arch Linux

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The system employs the X display server and the i3 window manager. The terminal +emulator used is Urxvt. The translucent effect is achieved with the help of the +Xcompmgr compositor. This sort of setup was popular among minimalist Linux +users.

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In February 2024, I switched to an OpenBSD system with Xenocara (the OpenBSD +build of X display server) as the display server and i3 as the window manager:

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OpenBSD i3

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Unlike Linux, OpenBSD includes a coherent desktop environment out of the box. +Except for the window manager, for which I prefer a tiling one, I’m now using +the default OpenBSD setup. For the window manager, I use dwm from the Suckless +team.

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Files: dotfiles.tar.gz

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by Wickramage Don Sadeep Madurange

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