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This page covers the initial setup for installing and configuring `dwm` as a desktop environment on OpenBSD. Everything posted here relies on my personal "Open Suck" installer: [Open Suck](https://git.btxx.org/open-suck/about/)
 
## What You Get

The Open Suck installer gives you the absolute barebones desktop experience:

- `dwm` for window management
- `qutebrowser` as your core web browser
- `aerc` for your terminal-based mail client
- `slock` for screen locking
- `scrot`/`slop` for simple screenshot utilities
- `dunst` for notifications

## Required Packages

Before we begin setting things up, you will need to install `git`, `vim`, `bash`:

    pkg_add git vim bash

## Cloning the Project

Clone the main installer project and navigate instead the directory:

    git clone https://git.btxx.org/open-suck
    cd open-suck

## Installing

1) Install dependencies by running `./install-dependencies.sh`. The script will simply read required packages from `dependencies.txt` and run `pkg_add`.
2) Compile and install suckless software by running the `./install.sh`

## TL;DR

    doas sh ./install-dependencies.sh # Install OpenBSD packages
    doas sh ./install.sh # Install suckless tools
    cp .xinitrc ~/.xinitrc # Apply .xinitrc

Reboot the machine. Log in as your main user. Run:


    startx


That's it! You now have a fully functional desktop environment built on top of `dwm`.