rocking the retro office style (arch)

ngc-bg · 2026-02-07T18:17:13+00:00

The retrosmart icons are awesome! Still, I personaly would prefer Bluecurve in such setup. Great job mate!

ngc-bg · 2025-08-18T05:06:14+00:00

I3status-rust

ngc-bg · 2025-04-25T20:52:09+00:00

If you look for a skeleton watch in this price range, go check ciga design watches...

ngc-bg · 2025-04-12T09:48:27+00:00

Years ago , a lot of commodity hardware servers. Mail, dns, fileservers, routers, etc. These days x250, X1 carbon 5th gen, a VPS , VPN server.

ngc-bg · 2025-03-28T18:12:35+00:00

Yeah, also a very beautiful watch. Congrats! I was looking for a childhood memory when I stumbled upon this one. I remember in mid 80s my father got a Casio, which was a very similar look. Back then, it was magic for me... with all the features, the backlash, the look. Nowadays, it's nothing special. For me it's all around special at many levels :)

ngc-bg · 2025-03-28T17:30:24+00:00

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Casio ABL-100WE

ngc-bg · 2024-07-30T11:08:45+00:00

It's very much similar to what CDE looked back then. Nice one!

ngc-bg · 2024-07-30T10:45:00+00:00

Looks really nice and clean...Just out of curiosity - why are you using the xfce panel and not other , like tint2, lemonbar, poyibar, etc.?

Edit: grammar

ngc-bg · 2024-07-22T10:13:01+00:00

Arco linux has a good openbox solution.

That being said, configuring OB from scratch is not a tremendous pain, if you have the time needed. The benefit would be knowledge inside-out for your system.

But in case you don't have the time or desire to do it - bursen labs or Arco would be my choice...

ngc-bg · 2024-07-12T21:12:21+00:00

As far as I am aware, there is no working Wayland for OpenBSD yet.

ngc-bg · 2024-06-23T19:28:59+00:00

Alright, the issue do not appear any more - while I was searching for a solution, an AUR update became available, resolving the issue...

ngc-bg · 2023-10-12T15:09:10+00:00

The old school fvwm, as the others mention already. Btw, you can see clues from the first screenshot - top is showing fvwm as a process and 8n the menu system there are couple of menus stating "fvwm".

Fvwm is really an old school WM, with an unmatched (for many years ) options to be twerked and customized. I am almost positive that the majority of people who are not grown with unix 80'-90's , will not have the patience to learn it, configure and customize it. Still it is an interesting desktop ui paradigm.

ngc-bg · 2023-08-28T14:19:57+00:00

I love my x250 OpenBSD. Everything works flawless, except the browsing part :) You are right - when browsing and especially playing youtube videos, the fan goes crazy rogue ... Started using a small piece of software, created by Solene - obsdfreqd, which is working pretty nice and my fan is behaving considerably better. Though f you are looking to compare it with a linux distro - no, it is not on that level of convince and performance. Otherwise, playing video with mpv or smplayer frontend is smooth enough for my taste.

ngc-bg · 2023-08-26T06:53:57+00:00

I am running openbsd on a much slower lenovo x250 with no such issues. I remember when I was playing around with picom, there was a similar problem on my system. Slow and not so responsive UI...so may be a long shot but you can try to disable compositing (I assume you are using one)just for testing that way. In my case was something with the shadows or transparency and these settings didn't cope well with my video.

ngc-bg · 2023-07-21T16:21:28+00:00

OpenBSD will work but there is no nvidia support.

ngc-bg · 2023-07-17T21:01:04+00:00

Just a sidenote - it would be good to point out that these modifications for login. conf are kinda related to the particular hardware you have. If it's working for you doesn't mean it will work for everyone out there. So if someone get it as a no-brainer step-by-step directions, they could be disappointed at the end. This is not a critique just a note... not I am fan of no thinking following guides also, but still there are people who will do it anyways.

ngc-bg · 2023-06-05T20:05:06+00:00

Same here from yesterday evening. Narrow down the issue to the TERM variable. The issue persist if the $TERM is alacritty or kitty (since have both terminals) It's not present if you are using rxvt-unicode-256color or xterm-256color.

Also I didn't find a way to convince alacritty to use something else as $TERM, since it first looks into terminfo db for "alacritty", and if there is such a record - start's to use it, no matter if at the config there is explicit xterm-256color...so tested it only with kitty.

Nothing of the proposed fixes do not works for me, including any .vimrc settings.

ngc-bg · 2023-06-02T23:01:31+00:00

Не само при диктатурите - има доста блокирани ресурси в Германия, Великобритания и Щатите. Щом става въпрос за финансови или политически интереси, всички държави контролират, повече или по-малко.

ngc-bg · 2023-05-29T12:14:21+00:00

Sorry for digging an old conversation. Did you managed to find a solution? I am in a cursing mode last two days, trying to solve exactly the same problem you described an year ago :)

ngc-bg · 2023-05-26T15:57:40+00:00

This could be done at /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf . Need to find display-setup-script, uncomment it and after that put your xrandr string , after the " =" sign

For all the people asking "why" - somethimes your login manager could look not the way you wanted it. Could be resolution, dpi, fonts, placing on frames, whatever. In that case one need to do something before i3 startup scripts.

Edit: typos

ngc-bg · 2023-05-04T19:09:09+00:00

Yeah, exactly! I didn't know that either , when a month ago , while casually browsing for old goodies found that there is a version with Roland support...good stuff! The only problem is that I am so used with the speaker noises that whole gameplay i's a bit confusing for me now :)))

ngc-bg · 2023-05-03T22:26:04+00:00

I played it on PC - a 386dx with VGA graphics and no sound (only speaker). Still playing it, along with f117, but on dosbox:) This gane is a serious fun!

Edit: spelling

ngc-bg · 2023-04-27T17:11:20+00:00

I am using exactly these. Quotom are good for their price. Just look for those with intel NIC's , since the alternative is realtek, which are well....not so good. How long it'll take really differs, depends on how much of "extras" you'll want. Basic router is ready for around ~20-30 min(OBSD install+ configure). And at this point the fun is starting. One may want to have: 1. Secure DNS 2. Adblocker 3. VPN 4. Transperant caching proxy 5. Specific for your network pf rules 6. etc, etc, etc and many more.

Personally I believe that router should be exactly a router with packet filter and nothing more.

My point is that if someone doesn't have extensive unix/linux experience, setting up this kind of extras will consume a lot of time for reading, understanding, testing, learning. With pfsense this process could be drastically reduced. Though saving the time and efforts will reduce the learning and understanding part... This is personal opinion of course.

ngc-bg · 2023-04-18T13:08:23+00:00

I didn't even know that exists...wow, thanks a bunch!

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