Login with the root user

Add your regular user to the wheel group

user mod -G wheel youruser

  1. Skip this one Set PKG_PATH environment variable

export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/$(uname -r)/packages/$(uname -m)

  1. Install nano text editor

# pkg_add -Iv nano

  1. Ski[ this one Open and edit the .profile file

nano .profile

Add to the file

export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/$(uname -r)/packages/$(uname -m)

Save and exit Ctrl+x

  1. Install Xfce

# pkg_add -Iv xfce

Install Slim

pkg_add -Iv slim slim-themes

Open and edit the root user .xinitrc file

nano .xinitrc

Add to the file

exec startxfce4

Save and exit

Ctrl+x

Change to the home directory of your regular user

cd /home/youruser

Open and edit your regular user .xinitrc file

nano .xinitrc Add to the file

exec startxfce4

Save and exit

Ctrl+x

Open and edit rc.local

nano /etc/rc.local

Add to the file

/usr/local/bin/slim -d

Save and exit

Ctrl+x

Open and edit rc.conf.local

nano /etc/rc.conf.local

Add to the file

pkg_scripts="dbus_daemon avahi_daemon"

dbus_enable=YES

Save and exit Ctrl+x

Install some basic applications and etc. .

pkg_add -Iv firefox thunderbird gimp vlc libreoffice

Reboot

After reboot you need to login in welcome screen but this wasn't success.




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- [install XFCE desktop](https://www.birkey.co/2022-01-29-openbsd-7-xfce-desktop.html)

pkg_add xfce4-power-manager xfce4-whiskermenu