TOC    Preamble High DPI Update 2026-01-22 Keyboard configuration Rewrite configuration for xorg.conf Multimedia keys Pointing devices Touchpad Trackpoint Trackball Mouse Drawing tablet Screensaver Disable screensaver for fullscreen videos Update 2025-12-13 (xlock): Compositor (no, not that thing from Wayland) Changing size of usual windows Transparent splash screens Sliding dialog windows Effects for Emacs Librewolf: menu fix Effects for StumpWM parts Disabling unwanted outputs Juggling with displays Terminal Display manager (XDM) Update 2025-10-20: Update 2025-12-13 (xdm startup): Xdg-utils Emacs Dired as a default file manager Emacs Compose as a default mail agent nSxiv as a default image viewer MPV as a default video/audio player Emacs as a default editor for some files Emacs PDF-tools as a default PDF viewer Beauty Changing the cursor theme GTK2 theme Update 2025-12-13 (hints from vermaden): GTK3 theme Update 2025-12-13 (tweaks from vermaden blog): Update 2026-01-08 GTK4 theme Qt 5 theme Qt 6 theme Librewolf theme Fonts Update 2025-12-13 (fonts changed): Icons Notes Preamble The modern common Linux and as a result also a UNIX desktop is heavily bloated. Even if you install not a full-scale DE like Gnome, but a small WM: i3wm, WindowMaker, XFCE, StumpWM, etc. These window managers are small itself, but when user installs a necessary GUI programs — then a lot of bloat will be installed too: gsettings-daemon, D-Bus daemon, polkitd, console-kit-daemon, etc, etc…

TOC    Prerequisites How to switch Prerequisites The XLibre X server exists in the binary repositories since FreeBSD 15.0. So this version of OS or higher is necessary.