Awesome

Awesome OpenBSD Desktop 🐡

A curated list of awesome applications, software, tools, and resources for using OpenBSD as a daily driver. Inspired by the various Awesome lists that exist for a wide variety of tech ecosystems and the robust, secure, and quality codebase of OpenBSD.

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Contents

• Window Managers
• Terminal Emulators
• Text Editors
• Web Browsers
• Email Clients
• File Managers
• Multimedia
• Office
• System Monitoring
• Security Tools
• Miscellaneous Tools
• Miscellaneous Tools
• Resources
• Contributing

Window Managers

• cwm - A lightweight and efficient window manager for X11.
• fvwm - A virtual window manager for X11.
• i3 - A tiling window manager, completely written from scratch.
• dwm - A dynamic window manager for X11.
• spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.

Terminal Emulators

• xterm - The standard terminal emulator for the X Window System.
• rxvt-unicode - A customizable terminal emulator.
• st - A simple terminal implementation for X.
• Alacritty - A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
• Zutty - A high-end terminal for low-end systems.

Text Editors

• vim - An advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set.
• emacs - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
• nano - An easy to use, modeless text editor.
• ed - The standard text editor.
• helix - A post-modern modal text editor.

Web Browsers

• Firefox - A free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
• Chromium - An open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web.
• Lynx - A highly configurable text-based web browser.
• Iridium - A browser securing your privacy.

Email Clients

• Thunderbird - A free email application that's easy to set up and customize.
• mutt - A small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems.
• alpine - A fast, easy to use email client.

File Managers

• Thunar - A modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment.
• Midnight Commander - A console file manager and directory browser.
• ranger - A console file manager with VI key bindings.
• vifm - A file manager with curses interface, which provides Vi(m)-like environment.

Multimedia

• mpv - A free, open source, and cross-platform media player.
• VLC - A free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server.
• Audacity - A free, open source, cross-platform audio software.
• MPlayer - A movie player which runs on many systems.

Office

• LibreOffice - A powerful office suite.
• AbiWord - A free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word.
• Calligra - An open source office suite built upon the KDE platform.
• Gnumeric - A spreadsheet program that is part of the GNOME Free Software Desktop Project.

System Monitoring

• htop - An interactive process viewer for Unix systems.
• iftop - Display bandwidth usage on an interface.
• glances - A cross-platform system monitoring tool.
• nmon - Performance monitoring tool for Linux.

Security Tools

• OpenSSH - A suite of secure networking utilities based on the Secure Shell protocol.
• nmap - A network exploration tool and security / port scanner.
• tcpdump - A powerful command-line packet analyzer.
• GnuPG - A complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard.

Miscellaneous Tools

• tmux - A terminal multiplexer.
• Sudo - A program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users.
• Neofetch - A command-line system information tool.
• fzf - A command-line fuzzy finder.

Desktop setup guides

• OpenBSD on the Desktop (Part I) by Patrick Bucher
• OpenBSD on the Desktop (Part II) by Patrick Bucher
• OpenBSD desktop first steps by Sándor Czettner
• OpenBSD on a Laptop by c0ffee.net
• OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop by Daniel Nechtan

Resources

• Official OpenBSD Documentation
• r/openbsd - OpenBSD subreddit.
• OpenBSD Jumpstart - A quick guide to getting started with OpenBSD.
• Awesome OpenBSD - A curated list of awesome OpenBSD resources.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read the contribution guidelines first.

Feel free to fork this repository, add your contributions, and send a pull request to expand the Awesome OpenBSD Desktop list!