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title: Unix for the desktop
date: 2025-09-21T00:00:00+08:00
author: Wickramage Don Sadeep Madurange
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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:
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.
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:
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.
Files: [dotfiles.tar.gz](dotfiles.tar.gz)
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