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Topic: CLI-Only Machine

I decided not to put this in help since it's arch and I'm just asking for opinions.

I just made an Arch virtual machine and have zero intention of putting a GUI on it, it's going to be strictly command-line and I'm going to need some help because of that.

Recommend a Web Browser, Instant Messanger, IRC Client, Mail Client and Music Player that doesn't do GUI. I have Links right now but I'm not terribly fond of it.

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  • Awebb
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Re: CLI-Only Machine

links, elinks, lynx, irsii mutt and mpd. Don't know about messenger.

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Re: CLI-Only Machine

adding to Awebb's suggestions,

IRC Client:
I just started using Weechat after many years on irssi. Pretty decent, imho.

Mail Client:
Alpine is easier to set up than Mutt, if a bit less powerful.

Instant Massenger:
Depends on your protocol. CenterIM and Mcabber both work well for Gtalk/Jabber (what I use). Not sure about MSN or Yahoo, though.

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Re: CLI-Only Machine

I'm thinking I'll do CenterIM, irsii, Alpine, MPD if it supports streaming to the PS3 and possibly changing to either elinks or hacked links for a browser.

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Re: CLI-Only Machine

Web Browser - links2, w3m

Instant Messanger - finch, CenterIM - http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch

IRC Client - bitchx, irssi, finch, CenterIM

Mail Client - mutt, alpine

Music Player - moc

https://debiandicas.wordpress.com/2010/ … i-e-gui-2/

i forgot to mention the great newsbeuter for the Atom/RSS Feeds;  with w3m or other cli browser it's great.

Last edited by rikhardfloss (2011-03-03 21:58:03)

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Re: CLI-Only Machine

Change my mind. w3m, finch, bitchx, alpine and either mpd or something that'll stream to my PS3.

edit: mediatomb or ampache? (or ushare?)

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Re: CLI-Only Machine

Also check out K. Mandla's blog. He virtually lives in the cli, and the archives are full of software suggestions.

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Re: CLI-Only Machine

Check there also:
http://cli-apps.org/
http://www.jaredandcoralee.com/CLIapps.html
http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/04/5- … -line.html
http://lifehacker.com/#!5622340/who-nee … t-anything
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ions-menu/

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Streaming to the PS3? Try ps3mediaserver. It can be run as a daemon.

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Re: CLI-Only Machine

RSS Feed Reader: Canto
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Re: CLI-Only Machine

johnraff wrote:

Also check out K. Mandla's blog. He virtually lives in the cli, and the archives are full of software suggestions.

Pretty cool, I saw a neat terminal program in an old Linux User and Developer which I don't see on there though. Byobu, it's an extension of GNU Screen which is pretty rad looking within itself. I think I might have to switch to either a Debian or Ubuntu server though just for the sake of the extremely large repos.

oupsemma wrote:

Check there also:
http://cli-apps.org/
http://www.jaredandcoralee.com/CLIapps.html
http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/04/5- … -line.html
http://lifehacker.com/#!5622340/who-nee … t-anything
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ions-menu/

Sweet! I'll have to check all those links out. The lifehacker one looks really rad!

Awebb wrote:

Streaming to the PS3? Try ps3mediaserver. It can be run as a daemon.

I dunno about that, I've heard some bad things about PMS in the tips and feedback.

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Re: CLI-Only Machine

Text editors: Nano, vim
Media player, (I mean, audio player): mpd

Please let us know where can we try out your cli-only distro, because I'd like to have something like that too.
One thing: Make sure the audio and the wireless (for netbooks) work!

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Re: CLI-Only Machine

Calendar app = calcurse
twitter client = twidge (works with status.net/identi.ca)
bittorrent = rtorrent
browsers= w3m, heard good things about elinks as well
text editors = vim/nano
file manager = mc midnight commander
image program / wallpaper setting = imagemagick / feh
im app = finch
music = mocp

There's a good list for you.

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Re: CLI-Only Machine

Currently a big user of:

rtorrent for bitrorent
vim for editing
mocp for audio
mcabber for IM
wicd-curses for network management

and a recent discovery I'm really enjoying is:

ranger for file management (http://nongnu.org/ranger/)

Last edited by jmbarnes (2011-03-03 13:00:28)

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Re: CLI-Only Machine

CrunchyFree wrote:
johnraff wrote:

Also check out K. Mandla's blog. He virtually lives in the cli, and the archives are full of software suggestions.

Pretty cool, I saw a neat terminal program in an old Linux User and Developer which I don't see on there though. Byobu, it's an extension of GNU Screen which is pretty rad looking within itself. I think I might have to switch to either a Debian or Ubuntu server though just for the sake of the extremely large repos.

Byobu might be called screen-profiles. Should be in the repos. Mandla talked a lot about hacking screen a while ago.

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Re: CLI-Only Machine

LastFM client - shell-fm

http://shell-fm.wikidot.com/

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CrunchyFree wrote:

Change my mind. w3m, finch, bitchx, alpine and either mpd or something that'll stream to my PS3.

What made you switch from CenterIM to finch?  I ask because I'm considering the reverse due to this bug in finch.

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Re: CLI-Only Machine

th3pr0ph3t wrote:

Text editors: Nano, vim
Media player, (I mean, audio player): mpd

Please let us know where can we try out your cli-only distro, because I'd like to have something like that too.
One thing: Make sure the audio and the wireless (for netbooks) work!

I'm not making a public distro, I'm just setting up Arch exactly how I want it. It's the Arch way.

After I'm done making a set-up I'll make a how-to for making your distro like me.

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It would be nice to see you sharing insights on your experiences with sceen, nohup and the likes.

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Re: CLI-Only Machine

machu wrote:
CrunchyFree wrote:

Change my mind. w3m, finch, bitchx, alpine and either mpd or something that'll stream to my PS3.

What made you switch from CenterIM to finch?  I ask because I'm considering the reverse due to this bug in finch.

b/c I like pidgin. Seeing that problem though I think I might stick to CenterIM. Everything else I'll stick with though. I hear great things about what BitchX did with issri.

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