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Introduction With the very soon upcoming new release of OpenBSD I wanted to take a close look to the two default window managers contained in the base system: fvwm 2.2.5 and cwm. As far as I know the very old version (from 2001) of fvwm2 is contained, because the license was changed to GPL2 in versions afterwards. I really like the retro look and feel of fvwm and so I thought I would try configuring it. ...

Introduction Because E-Mail is hard and no mail client is perfect I decided to setup neomutt again after more than five years. Now I am able to view my mails via ssh command line. Neomutt will certainly not be my go to client, but anyway here is my basic config. Cheatsheet set imap_user="john.doe@mailbox.org" set imap_pass="password" set imap_authenticators=LOGIN set imap_idle=yes set header_cache=/home/john/.cache/neomutt/headers set message_cachedir=/home/john/.cache/neomutt/bodies set folder=imaps://imap.mailbox.org:993 set spoolfile=+INBOX set record="+Sent" set postponed="+Drafts" set mail_check=90 set timeout=15 color progress white blue set use_threads=threads sort=reverse-date sort_aux=last-date-received set sleep_time=0 # be faster set beep=no # no beep sound set editor="nvim" auto_view text/html set sidebar_visible set sidebar_format="%B%?F? [%F]?%* %?N?%N/?%S" set mail_check_stats mailboxes =INBOX =Sent =Drafts =Junk =Trash bind attach,index,pager \CD next-page bind attach,index,pager \CU previous-page bind pager g top bind pager G bottom bind attach,index g first-entry bind attach,index G last-entry bind index,pager "," imap-fetch-mail bind index,pager \CP sidebar-prev # Ctrl-n to select next folder bind index,pager \CN sidebar-next # Ctrl-p to select previous folder bind index,pager \CI sidebar-open # Ctrl-i to open selected folder bind index,pager \CB sidebar-toggle-visible # Ctrl-b to toggle visibility of the sidebar set realname="John Doe" set from="john.doe@mailbox.org" set smtp_url="smtps://john.doe@mailbox.org@smtp.mailbox.org:465" set smtp_pass="password" set smtp_authenticators=LOGIN set query_command="abook --mutt-query '%s'" bind editor <Tab> complete-query macro index,pager a "<pipe-message>abook --add-email-quiet<return>" "Add this sender to abook" ignore * unignore from date subject to cc unignore organization organisation x-mailer: x-newsreader: x-mailing-list: unignore posted-to: Put this file in /home/john/.config/neomutt/neomuttrc. ...

Introduction With the widely discussed issues of Mozilla now scanning and using your personal data, I decided to get rid of the two programs I used from this company: firefox and thunderbird. Firefox –> ungoogled-chromium and netsurf For the browser I have a lot of choices in the OpenBSD ports tree. There are chrome based programs like chrome, chromium, iridium and ungoogled-chromium. And I also found netsurf which I quite like. It is very fast. Of course it has its shortcomings with complex websites such as youtube. ...

Introduction In this article I want to talk about setting up a server and clients (in this case a vpn from OpenBSD.amsterdam) to work as a vpn. The technology used in this case is wireguard because it is built into OpenBSD. No packages have to be installed for this tutorial. For this tutorial I used a wonderful guide by Solene Rapenne I had to make a few changes to Solenes setup, because the configuration only worked for me with one client. When using a second client, only the first client would have internet access and not the other one. I solved this issue by using 192.168.10.2/32 instead of 192.168.10.2/24 on the hostname.wg0 on the server. Unfortunately I do not know exactly why this is necessary. ...

Introduction LaTex together with OpenBSD is a simple task. This article is going to be rather short. Setup Install the following packages: pkg_add texlive_texmf-full texmaker zathura zathura-pdf-poppler These packages install the complete LaTex packages. texmaker is a very good LaTex editor. You can also compile and display the resulting pdfs with it. zathura is a good pdf viewer. That is it. Conclusion Installing LaTex on OpenBSD is a piece of cake. Everything is configured automatically for texmaker. ...

Introduction In this article I want to give a brief explanation about how to configure a HP Officejet Pro 8020 printer and scanner with OpenBSD. Packages to install The printer is connected to my home network via wifi. I therefore want to use cups for printing and avahi for scanning. pkg_add cups gtk+2-cups gtk+3-cups gtk+4-cups hpaio hplip skanlite Services to enable rcctl enable messagebus cupsd cups_browsed avahi_daemon rcctl start messagebus cupsd cups_browsed avahi_daemon Firewall setings Make sure the firewall is opened for certain ports: ...

Introduction So I want to run a router at home. My topology is the following: I have a glasfiber modem/router at home (Freebox) with nat. There are PCs connected to its LAN and also iPads et cetera to its wifi. I want to stick a little PC in between that would be the only connected device to the Freebox. All other devices shall be connected to the new little PC. ...

TL;DR OpenBSD Amsterdam are really awesome. A lot of people are saying this around the nerd globe, and it is true. Introduction / Why OpenBSD I started way way way too late in joining the normal nerds in having an own blog where I would write about technical stuff. I have a lot of opinions mostly on politics and other stuff. Maybe for some time in the future though… Why did I start this? Well, I don’t know. ...