Allright the install
went well. Then rebooting
was good enough. I didn't
want X to star by default,
as I like to stay in the
console at first and then
startx only if needed.

A strange thing happened
in X, the brightness of
the screen dimmed when
it started. So I tried
xbacklight -set 100
which didn't work.

I had to install
intel_backlight
from some random
github place, which
still didn't work.

I then troubleshoot
to realized that I
needed my kernel to
let me change a file
that was already open.
WTF?

So I had to create
a file in /etc/
sysctl.conf

and add the line

machdep.allowaperture=3

to change it from 0 to 3
so that then, intel_backlight
was able to bring the brighness
to a normal value.

Quite the trip already.

I though cwm was the default
window manager on openBSD but
it wasn't install, nor I could
pkg_add it? Maybe I'm not
looking in the right place?

So I ended up installing i3
window manager. At first I
wanted an openBSD as close
to the core, system, but
then realized that I'll
probably have to sweat it
to make it all workable for
me so, might as weel create
a comfortable UI.

I copied my .i3/confing file
and I was back to a decent
Xorg experience.

I installed my tools
and the next step is
to see if I can access
my home directory from
linux, which is on ext4
file system. If I can
mount that in my openBSD,
I'll be very close to
a working machine.

So far so good, we'll
see how far I get with
an openBSD as a work computer!

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