[OpenBSD] Customize Xenodm (background image , change keyboard , change xterm)

[jonsec]

how i can change background image(png,jpg ...) in xenodm ?
how i can change keyboard layout by press ALT + Shift ?
how i can change background , foreground , font size and font family of xterm console ?
anything must be permanents.

thanks.

[d31n1]

I would check out
https://www.tumfatig.net/20190208/cu...penbsd-xenodm/
and
https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/openbsd-on-a-laptop/
under section X11 is and .Xresources example

[Head_on_a_Stick]

It's probably better to use ~/.Xdefaults to configure xterm rather than ~/.Xresources because it doesn't require that the resources be reloaded when they're changed. Note that xterm will only read ~/.Xdefaults if ~/.Xresources doesn't exist.

Anyway, here's my sample file:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/He...ster/Xdefaults

^ That uses the stock bitmap font, to apply an XFT font use

Xterm*vt100.faceName: mono:size=11

[jonsec]

thanks to all.

but according to your posts i can not change background image and keyboard layout by ALT + SHIFT keys.


for changing keyboard layout i find this code :

setxkbmap -layout us,it -option grp:alt_space_toggle

but alt_shift_toggle not working.

how i can set that permanent?
how i can change background image? [login + desktop]

[Prevet]

feh can change background image.
Install feh and see the man page.
Put this in your .xsession file
feh --bg-fill --no-fehbg --randomize --recursive ~/pictures

There was a post here about customizing the login
https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/com...xenodm_themes/

[bsdun]

(In many programs Alt is called "Meta"; Windows Key is called "Mod" or "Mod4".)
ALT-SHIFT:
in ~/.xsession file

setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us,it -variant ,, -option grp:alt_shift_toggle

If you want the NumLock to be turned on automatically, install numlockx:

pkg_add numlockx

Then add it to ~/.xsession:

/usr/local/bin/numlockx on

All those lines in ~/.xsession should be above the line that invokes window manager/desktop environment.

[jonsec]

Originally Posted by Head_on_a_Stick

It's probably better to use ~/.Xdefaults to configure xterm rather than ~/.Xresources because it doesn't require that the resources be reloaded when they're changed. Note that xterm will only read ~/.Xdefaults if ~/.Xresources doesn't exist.

Anyway, here's my sample file:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/He...ster/Xdefaults

^ That uses the stock bitmap font, to apply an XFT font use

Xterm*vt100.faceName: mono:size=11

background changed but font size not changed.

[jonsec]

Originally Posted by Prevet

feh can change background image.
Install feh and see the man page.
Put this in your .xsession file
feh --bg-fill --no-fehbg --randomize --recursive ~/pictures

There was a post here about customizing the login
https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/com...xenodm_themes/

i install feh but when i add this config in .xsession and re-login then OpenBSD shown blank page and return to login page(no desktop loaded). (i fix this problem in boot by removing .xsession file)
also i set .xsession permission to 777.

but when run this command in xterm then background changed.

feh --bg-fill --no-fehbg --randomize --recursive ~/pictures

[jonsec]

not working.

[shep]

The feh project provides a specific tool for single image wallpapers: ~/.fehbg. It is generated with

feh --bg-fill wallpaper.png

run in your home directory.
Scale it once and then run ./fehbg in your .xsession or autostart file.

[jonsec]

Originally Posted by Prevet

Post your .xsession file. Also take a look at the .xsession files in the links I posted, and try to figure out how yours is different. I am thinking you might have started your window manager before you started feh. The window manager call should be the last command in your .xsession file.

This is a command that shows one picture.

feh --bg-scale --no-fehbg ~/pictures/filename.jpeg &

/root/.xsession file is empty and i edit this file to :

feh --bg-fill --no-fehbg --randomize --recursive ~/pictures

but not working.

I'm a beginner in OpenBSD. Please post full description ...

[bsdun]

Originally Posted by jonsec

/root/.xsession file is empty ...

Are you using OpenBSD as root? You should create your own user, add that user to groups wheel, staff, operator; set up doas.conf to give your user permission to run as root through doas
(example: doas pkg_add ranger)
doas.conf should end with an empty line at the end of file, or you'll get error.
Read these articles:
https://man.openbsd.org/useradd
https://man.openbsd.org/usermod
https://man.openbsd.org/doas
https://man.openbsd.org/doas.conf

[jggimi]

The operator group provides read access to all filesystems/storage, which should be a security concern when not being used for backup. Do you trust every third party program you install?

[bsdun]

Originally Posted by jggimi

Do you trust every third party program you install?

That's a good question. I need to think about it.

[jggimi]

A typical workstation will have hundreds of dependencies automatically installed, and most users don't think twice about them.

Time to think twice.

[jonsec]

Are you using OpenBSD as root?

yes. i not want to use another account.

You should create your own user, add that user to groups w...

why?
i can run feh command in root account(in xterm) and works.

[jggimi]

1. A typographic error, confusion about your working directory, or other jonsec-caused error could damage the OS or make it unusable, even unrecoverable.
2. You are giving ALL of the scripts and executable programs on your workstation the authority to do ANYTHING. Note my comments above about the excessive authority of the operator group for normal use. That is dangerous. This is worse.

[PapaParrot]

Originally Posted by Prevet

Post your .xsession file. Also take a look at the .xsession files in the links I posted, and try to figure out how yours is different. I am thinking you might have started your window manager before you started feh. The window manager call should be the last command in your .xsession file.

This is a command that shows one picture.

feh --bg-scale --no-fehbg ~/pictures/filename.jpeg &

This topic has gotten rather confusing, but any way, here is my .xsession file, works good for me.
.xsession:

tint2 &
./background &
xrdb -load .Xresources &
xterm &
fluxbox

Note, "background" is a executable script I have, :

display -window root /home/garry/Images/backgrounds/aa-OBSD-background.png

That's all there is to it, I am using 'display' instead of 'feh', but 'feh' works just as well, and if it is for the login window, or console, it needs to be 'feh' , 'display' will not work.

[PapaParrot]

I used this: https://www.tumfatig.net/20190208/cu...penbsd-xenodm/ tutorial,
posted by d31n1
I don't know how to capture a screen shot of the login window,.. so I put the image on a VM, and also just copied my Xsetup_0 file , to the VM, then took a screen shot of the VM
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[fvgit]

Originally Posted by PapaParrot

I don't know how to capture a screen shot of the login window,..

Add the following line to the end the end of your /etc/X11/xenodm/Xsetup_0:

xwd -out /tmp/xenodm.xwd -root &

This will dump an image of your xenodm window in xwd format into your /tmp folder. You can then convert it to png or jpeg using sth. like ImageMagick or gimp to post it on the forum.