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Nice site. He hasn't covered yet some well known ones, or at least I cannot find them using the search field in his site: * http://xmonad.org/ http://xmonad.or

by nextos 12y ago

Nice site. He hasn't covered yet some well known ones, or at least I cannot find them using the search field in his site: * http://xmonad.org/ http://xmonad.org/ * http://tools.suckless.org/slock/ http://tools.suckless.org/slock/ * http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html * http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind * http://notmuchmail.org/ http://notmuchmail.org/ * http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/ http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/ * http://isync.sourceforge.net/mbsync.html http://isync.sourceforge.net/mbsync.html * https://github.com/Tox/toxic https://github.com/Tox/toxic * http://mcabber.com/ http://mcabber.com/ * https://01.org/connman https://01.org/connman * https://01.org/powertop https://01.org/powertop

LeoPanthera 12y ago
Surely i3wm is a better choice than xmonad if you're rating them by "one thing well".
- mapleoin 12y ago
  Surely you mean dwm.
  - 616c 12y ago
    I have tried many of them except dwm at this point. This is not because I dislike dwm (on the contrary, I love the idea and its "if you can't compile me you don't deserve me attitude), but i3wm and dwm are all derivitaves, of well, dwm user modifications that either stay dwm (with patchsets) or emerge into something different (uh, Mosca, i3wm, awesomewm for sure, and many others of the pure C variety; I am certain XMonad and others follow dwm aesthetics and philosophy in a very general sense because dwm went backwards by throwing out the kitchen sink and going for pure, raw simplicity). If you try any of the derivatives, you will notice they usually take one dwm patchset notion and focus on it, or try different window management logic (many of the new one try b-tree sorting and management of windows). But they all focus on doing one window management style or feature, and doing it well for those people (my favorite example: stumpwm/ratpoision were very much unique and popular, spawning many look-alikes by eschewing the mouse altogether). I use i3wm and really liked StumpWM (will probably return to it soon), but to make this dichotomy is to oversimplify and not realize WM systems usually focus on one-feature for the tool and do it well. Not all WMs are alike and that is why, as a StumpWM fanboy, giving control to another one arbitrarily (I think it is the only WM that totes that as a feature btw), shoes a very unique that I vainly believe lines up with mine. Just my 0.02.
    - grannyg00se 12y ago
      For anybody who is trying out different window managers, I'd suggest giving herbstluftwm a shot. http://herbstluftwm.org/ http://herbstluftwm.org/
      - 616c 12y ago
        I have not had the time but heard good things about it.
- lewaldman 12y ago
  Surely you mean AwesomeWM.
ivank 12y ago
You can go simpler than slock: vlock -sna will switch to a locked console tty and prevent you from switching out until you've unlocked it. This avoids all of the problems with X-based lockers, some hinted at on https://github.com/google/xsecurelock#security-design https://github.com/google/xsecurelock#security-design (Note: don't sudo vlock -sna if you haven't set a root password, add yourself to the vlock group instead.)
- 616c 12y ago
  Very cool tip. This is one of the most useful Linux power user tips I got in a while. Thanks! Now to script it as I spent most of my time in a X term emulator with a tmux session. Can someone effectively script X -> tty console then vlock?
  - ivank 12y ago
    You don't need to switch to a tty console yourself, you can run vlock -n while in X and it'll switch for you.
    - 616c 12y ago
      You sir are going to cause some late night geekage. Damn you! UPDATE: So am I missing something, because I get more or less the man page below: http://linux.die.net/man/1/vlock http://linux.die.net/man/1/vlock And I see no -n argument. Are you using Linux or some other Unix? What version do you use? (Sorry, I really need to sleep early, but you have to keep telling me how to improve my laptop!)
      - ivank 12y ago
        That looks like a man page from an old version. I've seen vlock -n on Ubuntu 14.04 and a two-year-old Gentoo. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/vlock.1.html http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/vlock.1.html
        12y ago
616c 12y ago
And I just want to say suckless tools are wonderful. I vascilate about studying C well enough to be dangerous, and I do see a very wonderful beauty in the aggressive Suckless C dogma. There is kid is so, to a novice, small and clean that I love their philosophy and orthodoxy. Long live suckless! Does any use their st terminal emulator?
- grannyg00se 12y ago
  I use st exclusively. It's bound to my new terminal key mapping and I've never found a reason to use a different one. I tried urxvt and xterm but stuck with st.
- chriswarbo 12y ago
  I use st. My .xsession launches "st -e tmux" which lives on its own workspace (in XMonad). Check their FAQ for getting the Delete key to work! http://git.suckless.org/st/tree/FAQ http://git.suckless.org/st/tree/FAQ
1tw 12y ago
> Nice site. Thank you! > He hasn't covered yet some well known ones, or at least I cannot find them using the search field in his site I've posted about all the software you mention bar toxic but, as you discovered, Tumblr's built-in search doesn't work terribly well. I'll add a Duck Duck Go search box this afternoon. (It's been on my todo list for, er, just over two years now...)

by nextos 12y ago

LeoPanthera 12y ago

Surely i3wm is a better choice than xmonad if you're rating them by "one thing well".

mapleoin 12y ago
Surely you mean dwm.
- 616c 12y ago
  I have tried many of them except dwm at this point. This is not because I dislike dwm (on the contrary, I love the idea and its "if you can't compile me you don't deserve me attitude), but i3wm and dwm are all derivitaves, of well, dwm user modifications that either stay dwm (with patchsets) or emerge into something different (uh, Mosca, i3wm, awesomewm for sure, and many others of the pure C variety; I am certain XMonad and others follow dwm aesthetics and philosophy in a very general sense because dwm went backwards by throwing out the kitchen sink and going for pure, raw simplicity). If you try any of the derivatives, you will notice they usually take one dwm patchset notion and focus on it, or try different window management logic (many of the new one try b-tree sorting and management of windows). But they all focus on doing one window management style or feature, and doing it well for those people (my favorite example: stumpwm/ratpoision were very much unique and popular, spawning many look-alikes by eschewing the mouse altogether). I use i3wm and really liked StumpWM (will probably return to it soon), but to make this dichotomy is to oversimplify and not realize WM systems usually focus on one-feature for the tool and do it well. Not all WMs are alike and that is why, as a StumpWM fanboy, giving control to another one arbitrarily (I think it is the only WM that totes that as a feature btw), shoes a very unique that I vainly believe lines up with mine. Just my 0.02.
  - grannyg00se 12y ago
    For anybody who is trying out different window managers, I'd suggest giving herbstluftwm a shot. http://herbstluftwm.org/ http://herbstluftwm.org/
    - 616c 12y ago
      I have not had the time but heard good things about it.
lewaldman 12y ago
Surely you mean AwesomeWM.

ivank 12y ago

You can go simpler than slock: vlock -sna will switch to a locked console tty and prevent you from switching out until you've unlocked it. This avoids all of the problems with X-based lockers, some hinted at on https://github.com/google/xsecurelock#security-design https://github.com/google/xsecurelock#security-design (Note: don't sudo vlock -sna if you haven't set a root password, add yourself to the vlock group instead.)

616c 12y ago
Very cool tip. This is one of the most useful Linux power user tips I got in a while. Thanks! Now to script it as I spent most of my time in a X term emulator with a tmux session. Can someone effectively script X -> tty console then vlock?
- ivank 12y ago
  You don't need to switch to a tty console yourself, you can run vlock -n while in X and it'll switch for you.
  - 616c 12y ago
    You sir are going to cause some late night geekage. Damn you! UPDATE: So am I missing something, because I get more or less the man page below: http://linux.die.net/man/1/vlock http://linux.die.net/man/1/vlock And I see no -n argument. Are you using Linux or some other Unix? What version do you use? (Sorry, I really need to sleep early, but you have to keep telling me how to improve my laptop!)
    - ivank 12y ago
      That looks like a man page from an old version. I've seen vlock -n on Ubuntu 14.04 and a two-year-old Gentoo. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/vlock.1.html http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/vlock.1.html
      - 12y ago

616c 12y ago

And I just want to say suckless tools are wonderful. I vascilate about studying C well enough to be dangerous, and I do see a very wonderful beauty in the aggressive Suckless C dogma. There is kid is so, to a novice, small and clean that I love their philosophy and orthodoxy. Long live suckless! Does any use their st terminal emulator?

grannyg00se 12y ago
I use st exclusively. It's bound to my new terminal key mapping and I've never found a reason to use a different one. I tried urxvt and xterm but stuck with st.
chriswarbo 12y ago
I use st. My .xsession launches "st -e tmux" which lives on its own workspace (in XMonad). Check their FAQ for getting the Delete key to work! http://git.suckless.org/st/tree/FAQ http://git.suckless.org/st/tree/FAQ

1tw 12y ago

> Nice site. Thank you! > He hasn't covered yet some well known ones, or at least I cannot find them using the search field in his site I've posted about all the software you mention bar toxic but, as you discovered, Tumblr's built-in search doesn't work terribly well. I'll add a Duck Duck Go search box this afternoon. (It's been on my todo list for, er, just over two years now...)