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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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Desktop EnvironmentsWindow ManagersTerminal EmulatorsText EditorsWeb BrowsersEmail ClientsFile ManagersMultimediaOfficeSystem MonitoringSecurity ToolsMiscellaneous ToolsDesktop Setup GuidesResources

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Office

  • AbiWord

    A lightweight word processor.

  • Calligra

    A KDE-based office suite.

  • Evince

    GNOME's document viewer for PDF and other formats.

  • Gnumeric

    A fast, accurate spreadsheet application.

  • LibreOffice

    A powerful, full-featured office suite.

  • Zathura

    A minimalistic document viewer with vim-like keybindings.

Email Clients

  • aerc

    A pretty good email client for your terminal.

  • alpine

    A fast, easy to use email client.

  • mutt

    A small but powerful text-based mail client.

  • neomutt

    A command-line mail reader based on Mutt with added features.

  • Thunderbird

    A free, full-featured email application.

Terminal Emulators

  • Alacritty

    A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust.

  • foot

    A fast, lightweight, and minimalistic terminal emulator.

  • kitty

    A fast, feature-rich, GPU-based terminal emulator.

  • rxvt-unicode

    A customizable terminal emulator (urxvt).

  • st

    A simple terminal implementation for X from suckless.

  • xfce4-terminal

    The Xfce terminal emulator.

Multimedia

  • Audacity

    A free, open-source audio editor and recorder.

  • cmus

    A small, fast, and powerful console music player.

  • ffmpeg

    A complete solution for recording, converting, and streaming audio/video. Version 8.0+ in ports.

  • GIMP

    GNU Image Manipulation Program for image editing.

  • Inkscape

    A professional vector graphics editor.

  • mpv

    A free, open-source, cross-platform media player.

Resources

System Monitoring

  • bandwhich

    Terminal bandwidth utilization tool.

  • btop

    A modern resource monitor with a sleek interface.

  • glances

    A cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python.

  • htop

    An interactive process viewer for Unix systems.

  • iftop

    Display bandwidth usage on an interface.

  • systat

    Display system statistics, included in base.

Miscellaneous Tools

  • bat

    A cat clone with syntax highlighting.

  • eza

    A modern replacement for ls.

  • fastfetch

    A fast system information tool (replaces archived neofetch).

  • fd

    A simple, fast alternative to find.

  • fzf

    A command-line fuzzy finder.

  • ripgrep

    A fast line-oriented search tool (rg).

Window Managers

  • bspwm

    A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning.

  • cwm

    OpenBSD's native calm window manager. Lightweight, keyboard-oriented, and included in base.

  • dwm

    A dynamic window manager for X11 from suckless.

  • fvwm

    A virtual window manager for X11, included in OpenBSD base.

  • i3

    A tiling window manager, completely written from scratch.

  • Openbox

    A highly configurable stacking window manager with extensive standards support.

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