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A curated list of awesome applications, software, tools, and resources for using OpenBSD as a daily driver.
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# 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.



➡️ If you want more of these OpenBSD visuals, go check [here](https://github.com/raffaelschneider/openbsd-wallpapers) to get one of these wallpapers for yourself!



## Contents



- [Window Managers](#window-managers)

- [Terminal Emulators](#terminal-emulators)

- [Text Editors](#text-editors)

- [Web Browsers](#web-browsers)

- [Email Clients](#email-clients)

- [File Managers](#file-managers)

- [Multimedia](#multimedia)

- [Office](#office)

- [System Monitoring](#system-monitoring)

- [Security Tools](#security-tools)

- [Miscellaneous Tools](#miscellaneous-tools)

- [Miscellaneous Tools](#desktop-setup-guides)

- [Resources](#resources)

- [Contributing](#contributing)



## Window Managers



- [cwm](https://man.openbsd.org/cwm) - A lightweight and efficient window manager for X11.

- [fvwm](https://www.fvwm.org/) - A virtual window manager for X11.

- [i3](https://i3wm.org/) - A tiling window manager, completely written from scratch.

- [dwm](https://dwm.suckless.org/) - A dynamic window manager for X11.



## Terminal Emulators



- [xterm](https://man.openbsd.org/xterm) - The standard terminal emulator for the X Window System.

- [rxvt-unicode](http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html) - A customizable terminal emulator.

- [st](https://st.suckless.org/) - A simple terminal implementation for X.

- [Alacritty](https://alacritty.org/) - A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.



## Text Editors



- [vim](https://www.vim.org/) - An advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set.

- [emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.

- [nano](https://www.nano-editor.org/) - An easy to use, modeless text editor.

- [ed](https://man.openbsd.org/ed) - The standard text editor.



## Web Browsers



- [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/) - A free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation.

- [Chromium](https://www.chromium.org/Home) - An open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web.

- [Lynx](https://lynx.browser.org/) - A highly configurable text-based web browser.

- [Iridium](https://iridiumbrowser.de/) - A browser securing your privacy.



## Email Clients



- [Thunderbird](https://www.thunderbird.net/) - A free email application that's easy to set up and customize.

- [mutt](http://www.mutt.org/) - A small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems.

- [alpine](https://alpine.x10host.com/) - A fast, easy to use email client.



## File Managers



- [Thunar](https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/start) - A modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment.

- [Midnight Commander](https://midnight-commander.org/) - A console file manager and directory browser.

- [ranger](https://ranger.github.io/) - A console file manager with VI key bindings.

- [vifm](https://vifm.info/) - A file manager with curses interface, which provides Vi(m)-like environment.



## Multimedia



- [mpv](https://mpv.io/) - A free, open source, and cross-platform media player.

- [VLC](https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html) - A free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server.

- [Audacity](https://www.audacityteam.org/) - A free, open source, cross-platform audio software.

- [MPlayer](http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html) - A movie player which runs on many systems.



## Office



- [LibreOffice](https://www.libreoffice.org/) - A powerful office suite.

- [AbiWord](http://www.abisource.com/) - A free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word.

- [Calligra](https://calligra.org/) - An open source office suite built upon the KDE platform.

- [Gnumeric](http://www.gnumeric.org/) - A spreadsheet program that is part of the GNOME Free Software Desktop Project.



## System Monitoring



- [htop](https://htop.dev/) - An interactive process viewer for Unix systems.

- [iftop](http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/) - Display bandwidth usage on an interface.

- [glances](https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/) - A cross-platform system monitoring tool.

- [nmon](http://nmon.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php) - Performance monitoring tool for Linux.



## Security Tools



- [OpenSSH](https://www.openssh.com/) - A suite of secure networking utilities based on the Secure Shell protocol.

- [nmap](https://nmap.org/) - A network exploration tool and security / port scanner.

- [tcpdump](https://www.tcpdump.org/) - A powerful command-line packet analyzer.

- [GnuPG](https://gnupg.org/) - A complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard.



## Miscellaneous Tools



- [tmux](https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki) - A terminal multiplexer.

- [Sudo](https://www.sudo.ws/) - A program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users.

- [Neofetch](https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch) - A command-line system information tool.

- [fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) - A command-line fuzzy finder.



## Desktop setup guides



- [OpenBSD on the Desktop (Part I) by Patrick Bucher](https://paedubucher.ch/articles/2020-09-05-openbsd-on-the-desktop-part-i.html)

- [OpenBSD on the Desktop (Part II) by Patrick Bucher](https://paedubucher.ch/articles/2020-09-12-openbsd-on-the-desktop-part-ii.html)

- [OpenBSD desktop first steps by Sándor Czettner](https://www.czettner.com/2022/05/15/openbsd-desktop-first-steps.html)

- [OpenBSD on a Laptop by c0ffee.net](https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/openbsd-on-a-laptop)

- [OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop by Daniel Nechtan](https://www.nechtan.io/articles/openbsd_minimalist_desktop.html)



## Resources



- [Official OpenBSD Documentation](https://www.openbsd.org/faq/)

- [r/openbsd](https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/) - OpenBSD subreddit.

- [OpenBSD Jumpstart](http://www.openbsdjumpstart.org/) - A quick guide to getting started with OpenBSD.

- [Awesome OpenBSD](https://github.com/ligurio/awesome-openbsd) - A curated list of awesome OpenBSD resources.



## Contributing



Contributions are welcome! Please read the [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) first.



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