America won? Booo.
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Night night
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The answer is pkg install neofetch
And you can do pkg search neofetch if you’re not sure about something.
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would be interesting to know if its in the repos of ghost bsd it isnt in the repos of omniOS. at least the last time i could search with pkg because the DNS would work 
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Ooh nice, have to try that when I get home.
I expected Free/GhostBSD, or BSD in general, to be much more work than what it ended up to be. Granted I haven’t done anything special with it yet, so pain might just be hiding behind the next corner. 
I also have to take a closer look if I can dual boot GhostBSD with Windows on my workstation. 5400rpm hard drive and 4gb of ram on my Asus laptop does not offer the smoothest user experience.
Was omniOS based on Solaris? If I’d go the Solaris route my choice would be illumos or OpenIndiana. 
Something I forgot to mention earlier, GhostBSD live image uses fish as a default shell, but the installer asks you what shell you want installed. At least fish. zsh and bash were available. Since I’m disgusting normie I chose Bash
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Shamelessly plugging my own BSD Thread
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omniOS is based on illumos (a descendent of OpenSolaris), while GhostBSD is based on FreeBSD.
er that ended up being a reply to the wrong person
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Well, got KDE installed but after trying to log in the screen just flashes and returns back to login screen. Didn’t bother to figure out that yet so I tried to fix screen tearing. pkg claims the latest nvidia drivers are installed, but I can’t open the control panel for it for what ever reason.
There’s a slight possibility that the graphics are actually handled by the integrated Intel GPU, since this Asus laptop has that nvidia optimus thingy or what ever on it. All linux distros usually can detect both GPUs but they only use Intel (or that’s what I think), so wouldn’t be surprised if BSD follows the same path.
Today was bit busy day so I’ll try to troubleshoot this more tomorrow.
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What login manager?
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Now that you mention it I didn’t bother to check. Probably what ever MATE uses as “default”.
Actually, this says GhostBSD uses slim. Haven’t heard about that login manager before.
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I believe with Slim you have to change the .xinitrc and /etc/rc.conf
I had slim_enable=“YES” in /etc/rc.conf and I don’t remember what I had in .xinitrc… Something to do with starting XFCE, though.
Try installing SDDM for KDE:
sudo pkg install sddm and adding sddm_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf. Comment out or remove the slim entry if it’s there.
From there you can chose your DE.
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man, I haven’t heard it in a looong time, but I def used it way back when I tried FreeBSD in VM some time ago.
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It is really good if you want something that works reliably lol. Takes a few more steps to properly configure when messing with it, though.
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on loonix I use lightdm with i3wm, works rather well, and doesn’t get in my way, so it’s fine.
KDE uses SDDM, which is cool, but meh. Just like KDE itself 
on OpenBSD, it’s startx with dwm
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This is what I’ve used too, or at least the login manager I’ve actually messed with.
Thanks. Yeah, I’m feeling little dumb now for not realising the problem might actually be caused by the login manager. 
I’ve used Gnome most, but lately there’s these little small silly things, or one actually, that just pushed me over the edge to look for other DE.
What was that little thing you ask? The fact that I can’t set up different wallpapers to different monitors in Gnome without doing all kinds of nerd shit to get there.
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Nah, it took me a while to figure out Slim. It’s not a problem, just different 
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USA USA USA USA
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RUS-SIA RUS-SIA RUS-SIA.
Oh wait. Wrong country. Still a good chant tho.
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flogged
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GostBSD switched to lightdm in the latest release, according to the release notes.
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