[numlock86]

If your minimalist desktop is just terminal space, why bother with X?

[somat]

Because you can fit a lot of terminals on a modern display.

Aha! you say, just use tmux.

tmux is great, but I like the feel of a tileing window manager more than tmux.

[ninjin]

Well, you could always go with dvtm [1] and skip X11.

[1]: https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm

[MonkeyClub]

Or just Ctrl-Alt-Fn to the nth console (enabled in /etc/ttys).

Unless you’re coming in through com0, that is.

[danielnechtan]

Virtual desktop 1 (pictured) is just tmux with a bunch of communications programs I have.

Virtual Desktop 2: Firefox, sometimes an additional terminal

Virtual Desktop 3: More GUI apps, though often vim split with something else, depending on what I'm working on.

I use plenty GUI-based software, but there's a lot of unnecessary bloat - both in resources and on the eyes - that we can do without.

[gtirloni]

Better font support leading to more screen real estate.

[anthk]

- Unicode.

- Spleen/Unifont fonts.

- OpenBSD base already has X.

- Image and videos with nsxiv/mpv.

[boomboomsubban]

X is already installed on OpenBSD, might as well use it.