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It's 2024 and I'm posting this from a text console. (feddit.org)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It started as a stupid project cause I was bored. How much can you actually do without a windowing environment?
After finding out how to post to lemmy from a TTY, I realized that I can do most things I do daily using text.
Browsing the web in links, which opens all sorts of files in the corresponding programs if configured correctly.
Opening images in fbi, PDFs in fbpdf, listening to music in cmus, watching movies in mplayer, using e-mail in alpine, creating documents in vim and latex, ...
The only thing that still requires a GUI is image editing and a few websites I need that don't work without JavaScript.
And it's actually really nice...more focused, without loading times, animations, popups, ads, or other distractions, and everything is scriptable.

Anyway, sorry for the blog post.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Reject pixel-graphics, install aalib

;^)

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I remember using Reddit years ago on Links. New Reddit was borderline unusable, old Reddit worked... okayish. How is Default web UI Lemmy on Links? Is there a nice TUI client that I guess you would use more regularly?

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'd love to be able to ditch the gui entirely, I've found working from a TTY really helps me focus on the actual work I'm supposed to be doing

Unfortunately the one impossible hurdle is the web browser. Have kinda got around the need for it mostly with an llm cli for basic questions but will always find myself needing to fire up a window manager just to get a browser eventually

Also doesn't help that I'm primarily a web developer

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

cage is a minimalist Wayland compositor that only shows a single application in fullscreen. When you close the app, it drops you back to your console.
It's compatible with programs that need X11 through XWayland, and it has practically no loading times.

cage -ds firefox would open Firefox in fullscreen.
Option -d hides client-side decorations and -s allows you to switch from Wayland to another TTY using Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6]

I put aliases for the programs I use in my .bashrc so I can just type FF[Enter] and a second later I have Firefox open.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Ah that's useful to know, I've been using gamescope for that but it's a bit overkill

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

it's all just curling some jsons and slapping some paint and shit on top of that.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Okay, I've wanted to do the same thing for ages. Time to follow up my words with action!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Pretty cool, this is how people used computers before, but back they computers couldn't do as many things as they can now

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Give browsh a try

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I did. It doesn't accept mouse clicks from gpm, and it doesn't offer keyboard navigation. Both issues are long-standing bugs that also affect the Chrome version, Carbonyl.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I would not recommend web links opening in other programs.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Why alpine instead of mutt? It must be some 20 years since I least heard about pine or any of its forks

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Because I'm too dumb to configure mutt.

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