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notKlaatu 02-26-2014 09:12 PM
Use CDE and Tk exclusively ;-)

notKlaatu 02-27-2014 04:38 PM
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Originally Posted by K-Wizzz (Post 5122770)
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 :-)

K-Wizzz 02-28-2014 04:19 AM
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Originally Posted by notKlaatu (Post 5126085)
- 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

Code:
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 :-)

JWJones 04-24-2014 01:06 PM
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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.

Didier Spaier 04-24-2014 01:49 PM
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.

JWJones 04-24-2014 02:05 PM
^ Thanks, yes, I do/have used fbterm for Slack CLI builds, works great!

moisespedro 05-23-2014 04:33 PM
How is it going so far? I want to try going "CLI warrior" too, but on OpenBSD.
What browser do you use?

JWJones 05-23-2014 05:31 PM
^ 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.

moisespedro 05-23-2014 05:45 PM
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.

JWJones 05-23-2014 05:51 PM
I didn't, I just live with the appearance of any gtk apps.

moisespedro 05-23-2014 06:14 PM
Ah, but it looks so horrible D:

JWJones 05-23-2014 06:36 PM
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.

moisespedro 05-23-2014 06:47 PM
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.

JWJones 05-23-2014 09:02 PM
^ 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.

moisespedro 05-24-2014 10:04 AM
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.


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