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It's time to talk about my writerdeck - veronicaexplains (veronicaexplains.net)
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[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago

My laptop is terminal-only as well.

The only difference is that I use hyprland and waybar because it looks a bit better and using the dynamic tiling is sometimes easier than operating tmux panes.

To add to her list of useful apps:

mpd - To play music/audio. There are plug-ins for tmux and waybar to show the song status

ncmpcpp - TUI mpd client

lynx - Sometimes you need a web browser

[-] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 51 minutes ago

Hypr looks like overkill. I use Sway for a similar thing.

[-] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 15 hours ago

Any reason it's not using zellij but still tmux? I thought this use case was basically what zellij was made for.

To be clear, I'm seriously asking, I don't really use the terminal to host fully fledged applications/screens

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

I haven't tried zellij yet, but I'll give it a shot (thanks).

If I had to guess, it's that there are a ton of plug-ins for tmux and she's more comfortable with tmux.

Really, any terminal multiplexer will work fine. You just need to be able to do multiple things at once, Linux offers a plethora of choices for this.

[-] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 15 hours ago

TIL about kmscon. Getting actually readable font sizes in a tty is so nice.

[-] tuckerm@feddit.online 8 points 14 hours ago

I love this. I'm thinking of making another partition on my laptop so I can have a separate OS with no desktop environment. Reclaiming my attention span has kind of been a project for me this year. I was casually exploring how to make a setup like this with an e-ink screen, but e-ink displays are more expensive that I was hoping.

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 6 points 13 hours ago

They're way too expensive especially on bigger sizes. I want one as my second monitor but I won't be able to get one soon.

By the way, you can still create a distraction-free environment for yourself with GUI. Just go with a minimal setup, something like Niri, Sway, river etc. (Openbox, bspwm, i3wm, Xmonad, dwm if you prefer X11).

The key points for distraction-free is to have a minimal desktop and using a program launcher like d-menu, fuzzel or rofi. TUI programs also help a lot. This way you won't need a second OS setup and can do everything in the same installation because TTY is restrictive for certain things.

There are also distraction-free GUI programs that you can use. For example I prefer ghostwriter as my go-to markdown editor, Apostrophe is also great if you prefer GTK. Depending on your use cases, there are a lot of programs like these.

[-] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 4 points 15 hours ago

So since tmux was mentioned I got to know. Anybody still use byobu anymore? I used it back in my early days (2009-2012) but that was quite a while ago. Last stable release was in Feblueberry so that's promising.

[-] NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

I use byobu for random small rPi projects and stuff. It's just easy to set up, I've used it forever,
and I like the lil stats bar.

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 4 points 14 hours ago

I think so? Its been a while. Tmux waa what i used for along time but i remeber something before?

[-] fbn@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 hours ago

gnu screen is older

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