Slackware for the minimal WM/CLI warrior

Use CDE and Tk exclusively ;-)

Originally Posted by K-Wizzz A very fine idea! Did you already come up with a solution for - setting up network for road warriors (I was surprised that there is nm-applet in slackware, but you need additional software (trayers) for it to work with other window managers and I am still struggling with nmcli) - power management (don't know about a CLI version or a light X version, so for latter I tried xfce4-power-manager, but its pop-up windows don't work well with windowmaker (pop-ups create new program icons on desktop), and if I already have to use that component from xfce, then I don't see a reason against using the rest of xfce4 either) - suspend from CLI (well, I came up with my own script using dbus-send)

- I could be wrong, but last I checked nmcli cannot create new connections yet. It can connect to existing networks (ie, ones that have been seen and logged by nm) but it cannot, say, add a network connection using the results of iwscan -> wpa_supplicant -> dhcpcd

- `ibam` monitors battery life from the shell, check it out. very useful.

- i'd love to see this suspend script :-)

Originally Posted by notKlaatu - I could be wrong, but last I checked nmcli cannot create new connections yet. It can connect to existing networks (ie, ones that have been seen and logged by nm) but it cannot, say, add a network connection using the results of iwscan -> wpa_supplicant -> dhcpcd - `ibam` monitors battery life from the shell, check it out. very useful. - i'd love to see this suspend script :-)

Have to check nmcli if it really cannot create new connections. Then there's wicd left (creating conflicts with Networkmanager).

As for power management right now I am using acpitool, but neither this one nor ibam can be configured to suspend the system if battery is low or system is idle for a certain amount of time. Guess I need to write some shell script and put it in crontab...

Suspend for slackware 14.1 works with this command

dbus-send \
  --system \
  --dest=org.freedesktop.UPower \
  --type=method_call \
  --print-reply \
  /org/freedesktop/UPower \
  org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend

I just put it in a shell script called zzz and my fingers felt much better :-)

So, my latest efforts have been about using cwm as the standard WM for both my Slackware and OpenBSD boxes. I have found it to be my favorite stacker, so far. For tiling WMs, I'm liking euclid-wm and larswm.

To get the best of your CLI, I recommend installing FbTerm, that can make use of good TTF fonts initially intended for X, like DejaVu.

Despite its name it works not only in a framebuffer but also in a Vesa console. You can scale the font at will. It's available @ http://slackbuilds.org. In case you would want not to use the whole X stack, here are the only dependencies from the l and x series:
l/freetype
x/fontconfig
x/dejavu (or an other font if you prefer).

You'll need also a/aaa_elflibs and ap/libx86 but I guess that you have that already installed

If you want to see an example, you could try an installer in http://slint.fr/testing, that make use of it.

^ Thanks, yes, I do/have used fbterm for Slack CLI builds, works great!

How is it going so far? I want to try going "CLI warrior" too, but on OpenBSD.
What browser do you use?

^ Good! My latest install (desktop) was done without DEs or WMs, and also without consolekit and policykit. And then I added cwm. I use Firefox for GUI browsing, and Links for text browsing, although I also have Opera 12.16 installed, so not entirely CLI apps. OpenBSD would be a great base for this, too.

How do you change the gtk theme from command line? (Firefox looked horrible). I tried building lxappearance and it didn't work, tried editing gtkrc file but it didn't work either.

I didn't, I just live with the appearance of any gtk apps.

Ah, but it looks so horrible D:

Just the window interface, or do your fonts look horrible, too? I've noticed that Opera 12.16 looks better than Firefox, for what it's worth.

The interface, I've found the stock OpenBSD font configuration pretty good actually (Firefox). Better looking than most Linux distros imo (talking about stock configs). Didn't try other browsers.

^ Yes, I would agree with you there. I'm not sure why it is, but font rendering in all BSDs I have tried is much better than Linux.

Some websites looks worse but it is more because they use a missing font on the stock config (like ms fonts). The font rendering itself is great, I can get comparable results on Linux only when using something like in finality.