Welcome and Themes

Welcome and Themes

The Welcome window is BSDRunner's starting surface: it identifies the active visual theme and provides shortcuts into the desktop without trying to replace a full application launcher.

Open it

• Press Super+W.
• Or run sh ~/.config/bsdrunner/scripts/bsdrunner-welcome.sh.
• To show it automatically after login, create ~/.config/bsdrunner/show-welcome-at-startup.

Theme row

The circular selectors switch between Default, Jinteki, Haas-Bioroid, NBN, and Weyland. The selected theme is highlighted. Choosing one applies the complete BSDRunner theme layer and closes the Welcome window; reopen it to see the newly themed surface.

Themes affect the shared Quickshell palette and the wider desktop integration described in the repository's theme documentation. They are visual choices, not separate user profiles, and do not alter application data.

See the Themes gallery for wallpaper previews, palettes, theme coverage, and command-line switching instructions.

Action cards

• Open Terminal launches Kitty.
• Open Files launches Dolphin, the full desktop file manager. This is separate from the lightweight BSDRunner Files app.
• Open Browser launches Firefox.
• Open Apps opens the BSDRunner App Launcher.
• Key Bindings displays the desktop shortcut reference.
• Power Menu opens the shutdown, reboot, logout, suspend, and related session controls.
• Close dismisses the window without changing anything.

A useful first-run path

1. Pick a theme.
2. Reopen Welcome with Super+W to confirm the active appearance.
3. Open Key Bindings and review the desktop navigation shortcuts.
4. Open Apps to discover the FreeBSD-specific management tools.

The window deliberately contains no system-changing controls beyond theme selection. Service, storage, networking, package, firewall, and jail changes live in their dedicated apps with their own confirmation flows.

Back to the BSDRunner Apps overview.