• FreeBSD ¹⁾
• 14.2-RELEASE ²⁾
• Xfce ³⁾

• freebsd
• Joystick devd.conf
• PC speaker beep at log-in (thread)
• Solo U2F key and Firefox (thread)
• ZFS repair notes/commands
• Wargus with GOG files (works; wine gog install, no xpac 2nd extract), and UT99 with ChaosUT
• 720p 1080p desktop res change desktop launchers
• Wine wine.bin kill desktop launcher
• Xfce Sticky Keys notification (thread)
• Android adb (post)
• Spinesnap = Dell Latitude 5591 laptop ⁴⁾
• Android file transfers with MTP
• Keybase GUI (keybase pkg)

• https://download.freebsd.org/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/14.2/

FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img

• https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/#bsdinstall-partitioning

• ZFS
• stripe (1 NVMe)
• Not forced 4K Sectors ⁵⁾
• GPT (BIOS+UEFI)

• [x] local_unbound
• Everything else unchecked

• [x] clear_tmp
• [x] disable_syslogd

• Invite to other groups: wheel
• Shell: sh

• DHCP or Static on Ethernet (em0)
• DHCP on USB Tether (ue0)

• https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/usb-tethering-detected-and-up-but-no-internet.88441/
• Might apply to any type of USB network device that shows up under ue#

su -

sysrc ifconfig_ue0=SYNCDHCP

/etc/netstart

su -

ntpd -g -q

• https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/#freebsdupdate-security-patches

su -

freebsd-update fetch install

sync && reboot

su -

pkg update --force

pkg upgrade

• https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/x11/#x-install
• 2024/11/29: drm-61-kmod failed to boot (post)
• TODO: gpu-firmware seems auto-covered at install; check if it depends on drm-kmod

su -

pkg install xorg 'drm-515-kmod' 'gpu-firmware-intel-kmod-kabylake'

pw groupmod video -m espionage724

sysrc kld_list+=i915kms

• https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/desktop/#xfce-environment

su -

pkg install xfce

ee /etc/fstab

# Xfce
proc /proc procfs rw 0 0

sysrc dbus_enable="YES"

echo '. /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc' > /home/espionage724/.xinitrc

chown espionage724:espionage724 /home/espionage724/.xinitrc

sync && reboot

• Username → Password → startx

startx

su -

pkg install xdg-user-dirs filezilla firefox

• Done from regular user and not su

exit

xdg-user-dirs-update --force

su -

pkg install evince-lite evolution foliate gbrainy gimp keepassxc libreoffice mate-calc mpv ristretto thunar-archive-plugin transmission-gtk xfce4-screensaver xfce4-screenshooter-plugin xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin android-tools aria2 cups en-freebsd-doc en-hunspell gnome-keyring gstreamer1-plugins-good gstreamer1-plugins-ugly gstreamer1-libav gtk-sharp30 htop icoutils libressl mesa-demos noto unar wget xarchiver xrandr yt-dlp 

• https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

chicago95

• https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wine/#installing-wine-on-freebsd

wine wine-gecko wine-mono winetricks

libva-intel-driver

• TODO: Joystick fix for neverball

neverball xonotic

• DevilutionX

devilutionx

• Doomsday Engine

doomsday fluid-soundfont

• FlightGear
• Sidewinder Precision Pro Joystick Bindings

flightgear flightgear-data

tor-browser

• operator to allow general reboot/power-off

su -

pw groupmod 'operator' -m 'espionage724'

• Done from regular user and not su

exit

'/usr/local/share/wine/pkg32.sh' update --force && '/usr/local/share/wine/pkg32.sh' upgrade

'/usr/local/share/wine/pkg32.sh' install wine mesa-dri gstreamer1-plugins-good gstreamer1-plugins-ugly gstreamer1-libav libressl

• Chicago95
• TODO: Replace Greybird config with Chicago95's

• Style → Greybird
• Icons → elementary Xfce
• Fonts → Enable anti-aliasing → Uncheck and re-check for full check-mark
• Fonts → Rendering → Hinting: Slight
• Fonts → Rendering → Sub-pixel order: None
• Fonts → DPI → Uncheck Custom DPI setting

008080

• Items → Add → Whisker Menu (move to beginning of Items and remove Applications Menu)

• Items → Status Tray Plugin → Fixed icon size (pixels): 16

• General → [x] Show generic application names
• General → Uncheck Show application descriptions
• General → Menu width: 425
• General → Menu height: 525
• General → Background opacity: 100

• Appearance → [x] Position search entry on bottom
• Appearance → [x] Position commands next to search entry
• Appearance → Profile: Hidden
• Appearance → Display: Icon and title
• Appearance → Display: Start

• Commands → [x] Settings Manager, Lock Screen, Log Out, Restart, Shut Down (uncheck rest)

• Appearance → Uncheck Show flat buttons
• Appearance → Uncheck Show handle
• Appearance → Sort order: None, allow drag-and-drop

• Behaviour → Uncheck Group windows by application
• Behaviour → Uncheck Switch windows using the mouse wheel

• Custom Formats for Date, and Time

%a, %b %d

%l:%M %P

• Display → Blank after and Put to sleep after: Never
• Display → Switch off after: 5 minutes

• General → Scrollback: 10000
• Appearance → [x] Use system font
• Appearance → Background → Transparent Background 0.80

• Style → Theme → Greybird-dark ⁶⁾

• Compositor → Uncheck Enable display compositing with Intel DDX driver ⁷⁾

• Compositor → Uncheck Show shadows under popup windows
• Compositor → Uncheck Show shadows under dock windows
• Compositor → Uncheck Zoom desktop with mouse wheel
• Compositor → Opacity of window during move: 10 notches from right/Opaque

• Screensaver → Floating Xfce
• Screensaver → Regard the computer as idle after: 1 minutes
• Lock Screen → Lock the screen after the screensaver is active for: 4 minutes
• Lock Screen → Disable Session Status Messages
• Lock Screen → Disable User Switching

• Repeat delay: 400
• Repeat speed: 30

bash -c "secret-tool lookup 'keepass' 'default' | keepassxc --pw-stdin ~/'Documents/keepass.kdbx'"

xfce4-terminal --title='FreeBSD Updater' --command "su - 'root' -c 'freebsd-update fetch install && pkg update --force && pkg upgrade && sync && echo 'Done' && sleep '3''"

xfce4-popup-whiskermenu

• Vol Up

mixer 'vol'='+5%' >> /dev/null 2>&1

• Vol Down

mixer 'vol'='-5%' >> /dev/null 2>&1

• Vol Mute

mixer 'vol'='mute=toggle' >> /dev/null 2>&1

• Listed respectively to above

• Ctrl + Alt + Z
• F6
• Super/Windows Key
• mixer commands bound to AudioRaiseVolume, AudioLowerVolume, and Audio Mute ⁸⁾

su -

ee '/boot/loader.conf'

kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0"
kern.geom.label.gptid.enable="0"
cryptodev_load="YES"
zfs_load="YES"
autoboot_delay="2"
hw.usb.no_boot_wait="1"
hw.usb.usbhid.enable="1"
hw.i915kms.modeset="1"
hw.i915kms.fastboot="0"
hw.i915kms.disable_power_well="0"
hw.i915kms.enable_dc="0"
hw.i915kms.enable_fbc="0"
hw.i915kms.enable_psr="0"
hw.i915kms.enable_psr2_sel_fetch="0"
hw.i915kms.panel_use_ssc="0"
hw.i915kms.nuclear_pageflip="1"
hw.i915kms.enable_hangcheck="0"
hw.i915kms.reset="0"

hw.acpi.osname="Windows 2017"

exec="gop set 0"

• TODO: Under misc

boot

gop list

su -

ee '/etc/rc.conf'

clear_tmp_enable="YES"
syslogd_flags="-ss"
hostname="Spinesnap"
ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.1.150 netmask 255.255.255.0"
defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
ifconfig_em0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv"
local_unbound_enable="YES"
moused_nondefault_enable="NO"
# Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable
dumpdev="NO"
zfs_enable="YES"
kld_list="i915kms"
dbus_enable="YES"
cupsd_enable="YES"

• https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/config/#hwpstate_intel
• TODO: Device hint or devd.conf to change the epp state on AC/BAT states?

su -

ee '/etc/sysctl.conf'

dev.hwpstate_intel.0.epp=0

• https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/multimedia/#sound-mixer
• https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/thinkpad-x270-audio-device-hints-for-headphones.74193/

• For built-in speaker and 3.5mm headphone jack auto-switch
• Last tested: 2024/11/29

su -

ee '/boot/device.hints'

hint.hdac.0.cad0.nid20.config="as=1 seq=0"
hint.hdac.0.cad0.nid33.config="as=1 seq=15 device=Headphones"

• https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/network/#configuring-nameserver
• Already done during install by local_unbound

cat '/etc/rc.conf' | grep 'local_unbound_enable'

cat '/etc/resolv.conf'

su -

ee '/etc/resolv.conf'

nameserver 127.0.0.1
options edns0

• https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/printing/

• https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/cups/

su -

sysrc cupsd_enable="YES"

service 'cupsd' start

• http://localhost:631/admin
• Log-in as regular user (not root)

• Internet Printing Protocol (ipp)
• HP
• IPP Everywhere ™
• Output Mode: DeviceGray
• Duplex: DuplexNoTumble ⁹⁾

ipp://192.168.1.164/ipp/print

Kole

• See Joystick

mkdir -p ~/'.config/mpv' && ee ~/'.config/mpv/mpv.conf'

save-position-on-quit
sub-auto=fuzzy
force-window=yes
profile=gpu-hq
scale=ewa_lanczossharp
cscale=ewa_lanczossharp
video-sync=display-resample
interpolation
tscale=oversample
hwdec=vaapi
hwdec-codecs=all

• 2024/11/25: openjdk17 is a dependency for libreoffice

su -

ee '/etc/fstab'

# OpenJDK
fdesc /dev/fd fdescfs rw 0 0

mount | grep 'fdescfs on /dev/fd'

mount | grep 'procfs on /proc'

• General → [ ] Load previous databases on startup
• Security → [x] Use DuckDuckGo service to download website icons

• For Keyboard Shortcut

secret-tool store --label='KeePass' 'keepass' 'default'

• TODO

• TODO zfs_nas_format

• See Wine

• xorg.conf Snippets (75Hz, evdev)

ee ~/'.xinitrc'

xrandr --output 'HDMI-1' --set 'Broadcast RGB' 'Full'
xrandr --output 'HDMI-1' --set 'content type' 'Game'
'.' '/usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc'

• See Firefox

fc-cache -r -v

su -

gpart show

gpart destroy -F 'da1'

dd if='/dev/zero' of='/dev/da1' count='8096'

su -

camcontrol devlist

dmesg | grep 'ugen'

usbconfig -d '/dev/ugen0.6' power_off

awk -F":" '{print $1}' /etc/passwd

awk -F":" '{print $1}' /etc/group

su -

pw userdel 'x' -r

pw groupdel 'x'

• x is a package name

pkg info -l x

pkg autoremove

• Log-out of Xfce (pre-startx/tty)

rm -f ~/'.sh_history' & exit

pkg info -l 'en-freebsd-doc'

gio open '/usr/local/share/doc/freebsd/en/books/handbook'

su - root -c "sysctl 'dev.cpu.0.freq' 'dev.cpu.1.freq' 'dev.cpu.2.freq' 'dev.cpu.3.freq' 'dev.cpu.4.freq' 'dev.cpu.5.freq' 'dev.cpu.6.freq' 'dev.cpu.7.freq'"

su - root -c 'ntpd -g -q'

su -

'/etc/netstart'

service 'netif' restart

• https://bsd-hardware.info/
• https://bsd-hardware.info/?view=howto
• 2024/09/13: Spinesnap

su -

pkg install 'hw-probe'

hw-probe -all -upload

rm -fv ~/*'.core'

rm -fv ~/'.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml'

gio open ~/'.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml'

gio open ~/'.config/xfce4/xfconf'

• https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/multimedia/#sound-mixer
• https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mixer

mixer -a

echo ' Headphones ' && mixer -d 'pcm1' -f '/dev/mixer1'

echo ' Onboard ' && mixer -d 'pcm0' -f '/dev/mixer0'

• https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/does-geoclue-pose-a-security-issue.95914/

'/usr/local/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos/where-am-i'

• https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/how-to-rw-in-single-user-mode.86186/#post-578493

zfs readonly=off zroot/ROOT/default

newsyslog -v -CC -N

cat '/dev/null' > '/var/log/all.log'

cat '/dev/null' > '/var/log/Xorg.0.log'

gio open '/var/log'

ls -la '/var/log'

• Uncomment

su -

ee '/etc/syslog.conf'

#*.*                                            /var/log/all.log

su -

touch '/var/log/all.log' && chmod '600' '/var/log/all.log'

su -

ee '/var/log/all.log'

• TODO