Open Suck

Latest changes based off OpenBSD 7.6

• Lightweight Desktop installer for OpenBSD based on the suckless philosophy
• Licensed under Mixed
• Discussion, patches etc. go to the list

Successfully installed on:

• ThinkPad X201
• ThinkPad X220
• ThinkPad X260
• Lenovo M73 Tiny

What You Get

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

• dwm for window management
• ranger for your file browser
• firefox as your core web browser
• aerc for your terminal-based mail client
• slock for screen locking
• scrot/slop for simple screenshot utilities
• feh for your image/file viewing
• dunst for notifications

Downloading

1. Download the latest OpenBSD iso and follow the installer
2. Install git, vim, bash
3. Edit/create doas permissions (/etc/doas.conf):

permit nopass :wheel

Also add your desired user to the wheel group:

usermod -G wheel bt

Now logout and log back in as your main user.

Clone the main installer project:

git clone https://git.sr.ht/~bt/open-suck-installer

cd open-suck-installer

Installing

1. Install dependencies
2. Compile and install suckless software

TL;DR

cd open-suck-installer # CD into this repository
doas sh ./install-dependencies.sh # Install OpenBSD packages

Installing on a Laptop

doas sh ./install-laptop.sh

Installing on a Desktop

doas sh ./install-desktop.sh

Copy over .xinitrc:

cp .xinitrc ~/.xinitrc # Apply .xinitrc

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

startx

Optimizing OpenBSD

Improving Battery Performance / Enabling Sleep

Properly setup apmd:

rcctl enable apmd
rcctl set apmd flags -A
rcctl start apmd

Setup WiFi

The following assumes you have installed/setup the proper firmware updates for your hardware.

Create a new file hostname.iwn0 (change the extensions to what is reported via ifconfig)

join WIFI-NAME wpakey PASSPHRASE
dhcp
inet6 autoconf
up powersave

Then run the following:

ifconfig iwn0 up

You might also need to run doas sh /etc/netstart after.