jot
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Posted: May 23 2006,13:22 |
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Hi,
I am trying to do the same right now basically (: I'm amazed with ion2 window manager, I think If you could spend some time with it it would benefit in many ways. I've tried wmii-3 yesterday and it lacks (or I couldn't find) features that I found in ion2 (from wm_apps repo).
By the way is it possible to compile ion3 on DSL ? Or upgrade lua to 5.1 ?
I haven't touched a mouse for about one year (just the touchpad) so I know some good console apps to start with, I try to choose aps that can be configured to use transparent terminals and If you wish can provide you my configs later.
Ok, now my favorite apps list:
text editor: vim ( +vimshell - already ccompiled, works great - just google 'vimshell' )
when you learn keystrokes and read few tutorials (ask for links) it is really powerfull tool ( + you can go to www.vim.org and read tips & scripts sections ) I hate the way Beaver does the 'find text' action. Vim also has mouse support (6.4 - I will soon add dsl with vimshell patch (mikshaw - can I add dsl compiled with '-march=pentium-mmx' ? ) , you can compile it easily with gcc1-with-libs.dsl ) binary is just 1.1 MB and additional scripts are about 11MB - you can remove them or learn to use them (:
web browser: elinks, dillo, ffox and opera for bigger tasks. Ok, but why elinks ? -> It gives you the best 'commandline browsing experience' , has even more features than dillo, can be extended with lua, is small and fast - If you have doubts just read this , be sure to read about 'URI rewriting' <- that's the most useful feature, and fits great into mousless OS. Elinks supports mouse and it also has experimental BitTorrent support and many other features...
pdf viewer: I found someday an app that let me view pdf's in console (not terminal) , guess you could google 'fbi fbida pdf' it's console image viewer (framebufferimage..?) and as I remember you also need gs. It converts pdf page by page to tiff, and displays it with fbi. But it was too slow for me. (linuxpackages.net - it should be there)
mp3: of course you could use mpg{123,321}, but I would choose mpd with ncmpc although personally I use noxmms ( gui-less xmms, about 90kb ) , and control it via xmmsctrl ( 20kb ) with keybindings, and I am displaying current playing songs' title with torsmo. I couldn't find ncurses based xmms playlist editor that would suit my needs (tried xcplay,ncxmms), I still find ncmpc the best. Recently I have found 'moc' (music on console), it looks like it could be it , but it has some dependencies, but I might try it in the future.
file manager: Midnight Commander - it's hard to find something better, give it transparent theme on transparent terminal , nice background and it looks ... nice (: And functionality is its other advantage, properly configured it can replace emelfm with ease.
p2p : giFT & giFTcurs (+giftares , giftfasttrack) , you can also use edonkeyclc for overnet end edonkey2000 , or mldonkey (supports overnet,ed2k,gnutella,g2,bt...) - it's really powerfull, but I've not used it a lot, couldn't configure it properly (:
For DirectConnect you could use microdc
rss reader: snownews, it's simple and good. Some of the rss feeds you can monitor via torsmo.
irc : irssi
IM : ekg (it supports gg protocol only) I can't say anything about other messengers as I don't use them (:
Well, guess that'll be it, now I just want to encourage you to try ion2.dsl
First it'll look ugly, get ready for that.
You won't have your dockapps launched by default, you won't have a toolbar, you won't have right click menu.
Encouraged enough ? (:
Ok, don't bother with it's look , you can change it later and it can look as good as fluxbox ( I hope ) .
What do you like in fluxbox ?
tabbed windows ? +checked
nice menu ?
+you can make your own, better (: so checked
dockapps ?
+I read about it , but I'm not sure how, but... checked (:
keybindings ?
+can be done in ion
toolbar to see the windows and time and switch to other workspaces ?
+well I don't know yet, I would like to have a toolbar with a clock, cpu %, processes , up/down k/s , uptime , raam and swap and of course title of the song playing in xmms. Ok maybe one toolbal is not enough for me (: And I would like to be able to toggle it with Mod1+<key> , and it schould have transparent background. Is it too much ?
And the most IMPORTANT : ion2 is fast, ...well rather FAST !
Did I mention that it can be totally controlled from keyboard and it can tile windows automatically for you, no need to manually resize them ?
And of course you can use it like you use fluxbox ( I mean moving windows with mouse and resize them as you wish )
And I think that the true power of ion2 is in combining those two modes of window managing
Sorry for such a long post (:
Ok, now it is really the end.
PS. I know that this comparison is not objective
PS2. And now I am about to click 'Quick Post'... hmm ... funny
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