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I've been running basically the same stuff for the last six years. I have a somewhat modified fork of dwm, a lightly modified version of Termite (simplest worki

I've been running basically the same stuff for the last six years. I have a somewhat modified fork of dwm, a lightly modified version of Termite (simplest working VTE3 terminal I could find), and my emacs (which has had basically the same configuration for the last four years). Most things take up the whole screen or the left or right division of it. I run the same thing on my high memory Xeon workstation that I do on my repurposed Chromebook and my OpenBSD ThinkPad. I can't really do anything about employer mandated Slack, but most corporate or hosted email is accessible through IMAPS and SMTP. Can't do much about Spotify, but I don't use that while working anyway, I tend to buy music files if it's convenient to do so, and I play those in cmus.

nextos 9y ago
Do you prefer VTE3-based terminals to urxvt?
- microcolonel 9y ago
  Yeah, I need iBus support for Japanese and Cyrillic input, and VTE3 interacts very well with input methods. I also find that VTE3 has the most legible (antialiased) text rendering and spacing/geometry of all the terminal emulators I've tried on Linux or OS X, especially when compared at smaller text sizes (7pt, for me). The default keyboard shortcuts are also pretty great in standard VTE3 terminals like Termite and GNOME Terminal (Ctrl + Shift + V for paste, Ctrl + Shift + C for copy), though that isn't specified by VTE3 itself. Rectangular selection works better in VTE3 than in URXVT or XTerm.
  - nextos 9y ago
    It looks nice, however there's no support for standard readline bindings?
Ascetik 9y ago
Clementine is the simplist Spotify replacement application I could find to avoid using their clunky app.
- fiddlerwoaroof 9y ago
  I wish one of the streaming services would just embrace the mpd model and ship as a music daemon that speaks a well-defined protocol + a reference client. They could brand this as something like “music for IoT”

nextos 9y ago

Do you prefer VTE3-based terminals to urxvt?

microcolonel 9y ago
Yeah, I need iBus support for Japanese and Cyrillic input, and VTE3 interacts very well with input methods. I also find that VTE3 has the most legible (antialiased) text rendering and spacing/geometry of all the terminal emulators I've tried on Linux or OS X, especially when compared at smaller text sizes (7pt, for me). The default keyboard shortcuts are also pretty great in standard VTE3 terminals like Termite and GNOME Terminal (Ctrl + Shift + V for paste, Ctrl + Shift + C for copy), though that isn't specified by VTE3 itself. Rectangular selection works better in VTE3 than in URXVT or XTerm.
- nextos 9y ago
  It looks nice, however there's no support for standard readline bindings?

Ascetik 9y ago

Clementine is the simplist Spotify replacement application I could find to avoid using their clunky app.

fiddlerwoaroof 9y ago
I wish one of the streaming services would just embrace the mpd model and ship as a music daemon that speaks a well-defined protocol + a reference client. They could brand this as something like “music for IoT”