INX Is Not X - Apps (was Re: Life on the Command Line)

[Peter Garrett]

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:27:21 +0000
Rolando Pereira <finalyugi at sapo.pt> wrote:

[snip]
> I hope you got Nethack there. You can't make a distro without it :D (Or
> maybe Crawl, since it got color and more stuff)

I may have to include nethack, by popular demand ;) Perhaps in the next
version... (beta-2 ?) 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > sc spreadsheet
> > 
> > Editors:
> > vim ,  including runtime
> 
> You can add ttp ( http://www.ngolde.de/tpp.html ) and you got yourself a
> office suit in the command line (hum... except perhaps a Acess-like
> program...)

Interesting... On the other hand, I can't stand presentation programs :) A
CLI Powerpoint presentation ? Aaargh!
> 
> > GNU screen, of course - with some configuration tweaks ( date, visible
> > numbers etc.)
> > There are some pre-configured screen sessions - for example you can type
> > "monitor" or "music" or "mailscreen"...  Also an easy access menu for
> > these.
> > 
> 
> Are you using a custom ~/.screenrc file?

I use a ~/.screenrc-name file for each pre-configured session, For example,
~/.screenrc-music :

hardstatus on
hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string "%w%=%Y/%m/%d %c"

# Set up some windows
screen -t Commands:(bash)             0
screen -t "Mixer"                  		 1 alsamixer
screen -t "Shoutcast/Magnatunes"    2 elinks http://magnatune.com http://shoutcast.com 
screen -t "INX Radio":            		 3 stream 
screen -t "MOC:"                  		 4 mocp

startup_message off


Apologies if the above wraps - I turned off wrap but it depends on your mail client too.
When you type "music" , or select it from the menu, 
you get  "screen -S music -c $HOME/.screenrc-music"

If you just type "screen" you get a blank screen, but with time and date etc. 
I just leave out the "screen -t" lines for that.

> 
> > little wrapper commands for convenience:
> > google <keywords>
> > wiki, wikig <keywords>  ( wikipedia in elinks or links2 -g)
> > dict <keyword>  ( dictionary)
> > 
> 
> I feel forced to suggest you install the Surfraw package.

Yes, I know about surfraw :) I might add it...
> 
> It allows more search engines and you can open them with either elinks
> or links2.
> 
> > 
> > IRC = irssi
> 
> Perhaps you could add a msn client too.

I have looked at several - on a live CD though, pre-configuring them is not really an option.
You could carry your personal config on a USB, I suppose. "centericq" looked like a possibility.
Of course, you could use bitlbee with irssi, but that's expecting a lot from the target audience ;)
> 
> CenterIM, allows you too connect to multiple protocols (including IRC,
> but that I'll leave to irssi :)
> 
> Do you have space limit besides the size of a cd?

It's currently about 184 MB, which I think will fit on an 8cm CD. I try to keep it fairly small.
Part of the reason for the large size ( for a CLI disc) is that it has all those Ubuntu kernel
modules firmware etc. ! Vim and man pages take up quite a bit of space too...

Peter
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