Very satisfied with cwm. It is incredibly flexible, simple, precise and smart to use and configure.
Pseudo-Puffy by Kyler Martz.
I am personally confused as to why you praise cwm so highly. May you please elaborate on these advantages? I am looking at the man page for cwm, and I do not see any outstanding features which cannot easily be implemented in any other window manager using dmenu and very simple scripts. On the other hand, it does not appear possible to bind scripts to hotkeys natively in cwm, which I can do in any other wm I have tried. It also consumes more RAM than ratpoison or dwm on my computer (Slackware).
One day, I may just find the courage to make the jump to OpenBSD. How much harder is it to install compared to, say, Slackware? Loving the aesthetics of your desktop.
OpenBSDs install process is among the easiest on the planet. I'm typically a Linux distro hopper, but I'm trying OpenBSD out, and installation is ridiculously easy.
If you install to HDD exclusively, its a cli install and mostly just pressing Enter. Takes literally minutes, especially if you just accept the defaults. After that you have X already set to go, along with a httpd (web) server ...etc. The default fvwm choice ... personally I don't like. cwm is nicer (echo cwm >/home/user/.xinitrc;ln -s /home/user/.xinitrc /home/user/.xsession) especially for laptops with mousepads (keyboard intensive). twm is dated, but usable and can look reasonable with some configuration/tweaking. Personally however I like to pkg_add jwm which is very light - but good.
After that pkg_add firefox-esr, rox (or pcmanfm ... or whatever file manager you prefer), pkg_add vlc, libreoffice, mtpaint ...etc
My install comprises
acer$ pkg_info -m
audacity-1.3.9p9 free audio editor
ddclient-3.8.3p1 Dynamic DNS service update client
firefox-esr-52.8.1 Firefox web browser, Extended Support Release
fuse-1.5.0 Free Unix Spectrum Emulator
galculator-2.1.4p0 GTK-based scientific calculator
gmrun-0.9.2p5 X11 program launcher
jwm-2.3.7 Joe's Window Manager
kdenlive-0.9.10p1 non-linear video editor for KDE
leafpad-0.8.18.1p5 simple GTK+ text editor
libreoffice-6.0.2.1v0 multi-platform productivity suite
mtpaint-3.40 simple GTK+2 raster painting program
numlockx-1.2 start X11 with NumLock turned on
osmo-0.2.10p4 handy personal organizer
rox-filer-2.11p1 GTK+-2 file manager with desktop features
sshfs-fuse-2.5p1 mount remote directories over ssh
vlc-2.2.8 VideoLAN client; multimedia player
which caters for what I need/use (I use ddsnfree dynamic dns to that my (potentially changing) IP address remains available via a fixed web address/domain name).
Nice! Might have to make the jump to OpenBSD for my file server.
pkg_add sshfs and fuse and you can sshfs mount a folder and view it as though it were just another local folder. I use jwm window manager and the ~/.jwmrc menu entry command I use to sshfs mount my celeron file server looks like
<Program icon="sshfs.png" label="sshfs celeron">
xterm -e su - root -c 'nohup /usr/local/bin/sshfs user@celeron:/ /mnt >/dev/null 2>&1'
</Program>
where celeron is the name I've associated to the servers IP address in /etc/hosts
192.168.1.9 celeron
That shows a xterm window when clicked asks for the root password (default installation when you create a user account as part of the installation automatically joins that userid to the wheel group) and after correct entry of the password has the fileservers / folder mounted under /mnt.
Alternatively ssh into the box, or copy files to/from the server using scp, perhaps something like
scp some.file user@celeron:/home/user/.
pkg_add skippy on top of cwm is nice https://old.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/8rn8tj/openbsd_63_cwm_skippy/?ref=share&ref_source=link
Personally however I prefer pkg_add jwm rox ... more supportive of mouse heavy usage rather than just keyboard, and you can keybind key combinations to pretty much replicate cwm but with the added benefit of window title bars, multiple desktops, taskbar ...etc. https://old.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/8ru74z/openbsd_63_jwm_and_rox_desktop/?ref=share&ref_source=link
OP gave the name of the image provider which could have been used to identify http://www.kylermartz.com/ web site. The initial approach I took was to snap a screenshot, crop the image down to show just the puppy-sub image and used a reverse image lookup (I used https://www.tineye.com/) to find https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55340df5e4b0ff30bb9dcfe5/55503e3ce4b0425f6a8b77c3/5574eb86e4b0487039295c0f/1435541056512/Puffer_web.jpg
xclock as a desktop wallpaper (full screen) is nice IMO https://s15.postimg.cc/jzb508bt7/image.jpg
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