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  Thread: Old vi
Post: RE: Old vi
The one thing I want to complain about when talking about vi and vim is this one: commands are affected by caps lock state, and this is a serious pain to me, since I use that key for it's purpose: gen...
 freem Old school stuff 10 4,852 31-01-2025, 03:33 PM
  Thread: Self-introduction
Post: RE: Self-introduction
Oh nice, many new nixers in a single month! Welcome to you all, and don't be shy, come chat on IRC, it is "a bit" more active than the forums, I'm afraid. Wish there was an IRC widget on the website, ...
 freem Community & Forums Related Discussions 26 12,971 31-01-2025, 03:27 PM
  Thread: What distribution would you fork?
Post: RE: What distribution would you fork?
(09-01-2025, 10:12 PM)jkl Wrote: freem: Sounds like you want to make Debian Void. Well, no, because void's integration of runit was bad when I tried it, and their package system is not good neither....
 freem GNU/Linux 19 21,616 11-01-2025, 10:40 AM
  Thread: What distribution would you fork?
Post: RE: What distribution would you fork?
I'd fork debian. Technically, my installation already have several properties of a fork... But what would I change? * better integration of runit and svlogd, to allow getting rid of sysVinit and rc.d...
 freem GNU/Linux 19 21,616 09-01-2025, 03:10 AM
  Thread: Your top 10 commands
Post: RE: Your top 10 commands
For me, the 2 main reasons I can see are: 1) removal of screenshots, that I should likely just put in /tmp instead (yeah, I *should* do that, and other adjustments, too) 2) removal of garbage program...
 freem Desktop Customization & Workflow 22 13,452 22-10-2021, 11:52 AM
  Thread: Your top 10 commands
Post: RE: Your top 10 commands
Code:% history 1 | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 10    1407 git     662 ls     530 cd     340 vim &nb...
 freem Desktop Customization & Workflow 22 13,452 15-10-2021, 01:07 PM
  Thread: Making the best CLI programs
Post: RE: Making the best CLI programs
(21-06-2021, 06:23 AM)seninha Wrote: Instead of a -h option for different programs to produce human readable values, use a utility, such as z3bra's human, that converts values from its input into hu...
 freem Programming On Unix 35 49,646 15-10-2021, 12:49 PM
  Thread: Mind Map Creators On Unix
Post: RE: Mind Map Creators On Unix
I think VYM have changed a lot in the meantime. Quote:vym has a complex but straightforward UI. I do not know the definition of complex, so I'm not sure this is true. VYM do offers bunch of toolbars...
 freem Programming On Unix 5 9,189 09-10-2021, 08:57 AM
  Thread: Nixers.net Conf 2021
Post: RE: Nixers.net Conf 2021
I don't think I'll have much time to prepare anything actually.
 freem Community & Forums Related Discussions 16 16,993 09-10-2021, 04:54 AM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
(30-09-2021, 04:36 AM)Ssynicil Wrote: I've been trying to increase my knowledge on computers and have began running linux (more specifically the Ubuntu distribution) through a virtual machine. Nice!...
 freem Programming On Unix 418 453,229 01-10-2021, 05:52 PM
  Thread: Nixers.net Conf 2021
Post: RE: Nixers.net Conf 2021
Nothing is prepared yet, but, if the topic of gaming AI is interesting to nixers, I can give a talk on what I worked on to improve unvanquished's AI, which are based on a bunch of technologies, includ...
 freem Community & Forums Related Discussions 16 16,993 26-09-2021, 01:31 PM
  Thread: Picking a new distribution
Post: RE: Picking a new distribution
According to https://musl.libc.org/about.html not really: «Localization functionality, a related but different matter, is also presently limited but slated for major improvements». Could not find more...
 freem GNU/Linux 17 14,791 19-09-2021, 04:57 PM
  Thread: Picking a new distribution
Post: RE: Picking a new distribution
(01-09-2021, 04:31 PM)z3bra Wrote: I also wish musl had better support ! Does it support locales, i18n and that kind of stuff now?
 freem GNU/Linux 17 14,791 09-09-2021, 01:24 PM
  Thread: how do you know which tools you (really) use?
Post: how do you know which tools you (really) use?
Hello. I was debootstrapping a debian 11 on some partitions yesterday (because my upgrade path won't be easy considering my tweaks, between the init system and the rebuilt packages...) and started to...
 freem Community & Forums Related Discussions 4 4,270 26-08-2021, 10:03 PM
  Thread: display managers
Post: RE: display managers
(23-08-2021, 07:19 AM)mcol Wrote: A similar area that is largely un-exploited is the framebuffer earlier on during early userspace. This can still be useful on single-user machines, for example if y...
 freem Desktop Customization & Workflow 13 11,285 26-08-2021, 08:30 PM
  Thread: Picking a new distribution
Post: RE: Picking a new distribution
(11-05-2021, 11:28 AM)stratex Wrote: I like Void in general, yet still, it is a particular distribution, let's say I won't like it in 3-5 years, and would want to migrate. I don't want to rewrite al...
 freem GNU/Linux 17 14,791 26-08-2021, 07:57 PM
  Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Last improvements: start using a mindmapper (VYM in my case) and start using a password manager (keepassxc, but I can't say I love it. It's just okay enough for me, and for now). I expect more improv...
 freem Desktop Customization & Workflow 163 188,482 26-08-2021, 07:48 PM
  Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?
Hum... can't you just summon xinit from a TTY, and use ":1" instead of ":0"? GDM might keep it's :0, but nothing should prevent you from running a different Xorg session, right? Of course, here, I as...
 freem GNU/Linux 13 9,993 26-08-2021, 07:42 PM
  Thread: Keeping Track of Your Things
Post: RE: Keeping Track of Your Things
Then you might be interested in VYM. It's a tool I've found few days/weeks ago, native program (no scripting involved, neither python nor EcmaScript, which is refreshing), C++&Qt, does not forces ...
 freem Desktop Customization & Workflow 53 61,638 26-08-2021, 06:48 PM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
Depends, really. If you don't need an actual widget system, yes, it's likely sufficient. Otherwise it's not, but then ncurses still sucks at that since it still mixes both low-level (move here in term...
 freem Programming On Unix 418 453,229 05-08-2021, 08:49 AM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
(10-04-2021, 03:14 AM)nvlr Wrote: Writing a new toolkit to replace QT/GTK entirely since it talks to X11 and Win32 directly. I noticed that I may have bitten off more than I can chew at times, but w...
 freem Programming On Unix 418 453,229 02-08-2021, 10:12 AM
  Thread: Your dream project
Post: RE: Your dream project
Got a quick look at the website, I could not find any doc, but I'll take a deeper look at it, thanks for sharing!
 freem Programming On Unix 25 29,035 11-05-2021, 11:06 AM
  Thread: Most automaton-friendly OS/Distro?
Post: RE: Most automaton-friendly OS/Distro?
Automating a system is not only installing it (this is relatively easy to do, I have my own scripting to generate bunches of custom debian, which can work either with ISO files, in-place or through PX...
 freem Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related 4 4,329 11-05-2021, 11:01 AM
  Thread: Most automaton-friendly OS/Distro?
Post: Most automaton-friendly OS/Distro?
Hello. I wanted to know, what is the most automaton-friendly by default system you know, and why is it, for you, the best on that? What I mean is, take an OS, install it without changing more than s...
 freem Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related 4 4,329 11-05-2021, 09:36 AM
  Thread: Your dream project
Post: RE: Your dream project
(25-07-2017, 08:01 AM)z3bra Wrote: Let's all share our "dream projects" (Unix related), and help each others accomplish them! By dream project, I mean a project you feel you would love to get involv...
 freem Programming On Unix 25 29,035 11-05-2021, 09:16 AM
  Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
I think my latest workflow improvements have been: 1) have "buttons" in my status bar to control mpd. I could already do it with keyboard, sure, but they require both hands (no super key on keyboard'...
 freem Desktop Customization & Workflow 163 188,482 11-05-2021, 08:56 AM
  Thread: Favourite Scripting Languages
Post: RE: Favourite Scripting Languages
I use mostly POSIX shell for scripting: using either /bin/dash or busybox's ash. I use awk each time I need to work with formats which have 2 characteristics: 1) context-dependent informations (like `...
 freem Programming On Unix 13 10,353 09-04-2021, 07:37 AM
  Thread: What are simple Operating System in these days?
Post: RE: What are simple Operating System in these days...
(12-03-2021, 01:25 PM)rainlofi0703 Wrote: Linux world is become a messy place for coperation and the complexity of software. I really need some simple operating system to play with it. I'm just uns...
 freem Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 12 9,665 13-03-2021, 07:55 AM
  Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management
I am getting my feet wet with keypassxc. I must admit it seems to fit the bill for now, even if I think the "simulate keyboard" feature could be improved. I see no point in a tool that uses clipboard ...
 freem Security & Cryptography 63 73,150 10-03-2021, 10:24 PM
  Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
(10-03-2021, 07:50 PM)Ramiferous Wrote: (10-03-2021, 10:49 AM)phillbush Wrote: image viewer: sxiv (I want to fork sxiv and make it into a file browser with thumbnails) That would be awesome! Then,...
 freem BSD 115 126,561 10-03-2021, 10:18 PM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
(02-03-2021, 04:41 AM)TheAnachron Wrote: - Generate an index and feed (atom) file for the posts - Generate a "contents" section with headers of the blog post I'd be curious to see how you did those ...
 freem Programming On Unix 418 453,229 08-03-2021, 09:35 AM
  Thread: trackpad gestures for switching workspaces
Post: RE: trackpad gestures for switching workspaces
(13-08-2020, 10:18 AM)mort Wrote: I've personally always used scrolling on my bar (always at the bottom across all screens) to switch workspaces. It's not a "gesture" as such, but it has the same ef...
 freem Desktop Customization & Workflow 6 6,699 08-03-2021, 09:12 AM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
(25-02-2021, 07:54 AM)TheAnachron Wrote: - blog (50 LOC shell script to generate my blog based on markdown and template files) I'm curious. What do you do in 50 lines of code? for FILE in *; do cat ...
 freem Programming On Unix 418 453,229 28-02-2021, 11:36 PM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
working on a monitoring tool which only keeps an eye on daemon's logs, and report if they're down, waking, or up. You can get the logs for specific state of specific daemon, and it's built to handle l...
 freem Programming On Unix 418 453,229 28-02-2021, 11:27 PM
  Thread: What will the world of Linux be like in 3 years time?
Post: RE: What will the world of Linux be like in 3 year...
TheAnachron Wrote:To conclude, I can hardly agree with any of your points. That's more than fine, I'd love to be wrong on many of those. Now, let me review the disagreements. In practice, I describe m...
 freem GNU/Linux 21 19,429 28-02-2021, 11:20 PM
  Thread: how many projects per repository?
Post: how many projects per repository?
Hello. I wanted to ask a question: what do you think about "mono-repos", aka: one repo for a bunch of projects. One of the alternatives, which seems to me the more common solution, is to have one rep...
 freem Programming On Unix 3 4,025 22-02-2021, 10:12 PM
  Thread: What will the world of Linux be like in 3 years time?
Post: RE: What will the world of Linux be like in 3 year...
I think in 3 years, there will be purely corporate distros, like Ubuntu, Centos (oh, no, that one is RIP, right), RHEL which will have became systemd/Linux instead of GNU/Linux. Their desktops will be...
 freem GNU/Linux 21 19,429 22-02-2021, 09:42 PM
  Thread: showing system's health on /dev/tty1
Post: RE: showing system's health on /dev/tty1
(26-12-2020, 12:19 PM)Wildefyr Wrote: You know it is possible to modify things like loglevel, rd.systemd.show_status, rd.udev.log_priority etc on your kernel boot to show less verbose messages? I kn...
 freem GNU/Linux 5 6,054 20-02-2021, 11:18 PM
  Thread: Logs in the Unix World
Post: RE: Logs in the Unix World
(16-02-2021, 04:21 PM)venam Wrote: Especially, that it's the subject of the day on IRC because members are working on related projects (freem, mort). I have not read that thread, yet, but so that pe...
 freem Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 6 9,144 17-02-2021, 09:38 AM
  Thread: Fixing the forums
Post: RE: Fixing the forums
I think fonts are too small or hard to read, as discussed on IRC. Using the longer phrase I could find that fits in 1 line from the start page ("Deep thoughts discussions such as the development of li...
 freem Community & Forums Related Discussions 79 95,066 13-02-2021, 02:03 PM
  Thread: Activities proposals
Post: RE: Activities proposals
I like the game idea, too. Well, for voice, not that much for voice chat while playing, because it depends on which game you're playing to. For example, for a FPS, I tend to use voice chat mostly for ...
 freem Community & Forums Related Discussions 9 8,730 13-02-2021, 01:21 PM
  Thread: Unix file hierarchy
Post: RE: Unix file hierarchy
(06-02-2021, 08:24 AM)venam Wrote: Soon you won't find or know how to get what you're looking for or which settings or configuration is where. That's unless everything starts to rely on that new cen...
 freem Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 11 18,272 06-02-2021, 10:54 AM
  Thread: The Gemini protocol
Post: RE: The Gemini protocol
(05-01-2021, 07:39 AM)prx* Wrote: Yan can write plaintext or any format, text/gemini with gopher is what html is to http. That's all. And nothing prevents someone to use gemini to serve an actual we...
 freem The WWW 17 19,522 05-01-2021, 05:55 PM
  Thread: Ways To Make Windows More Comfortable/Usable For *nix Users
Post: RE: Ways To Make Windows More Comfortable/Usable F...
(04-01-2021, 03:01 PM)jkl Wrote: Yet, indeed, it makes no sense to simulate other systems, just like it is pointless to use Wine. Well... wine is an implementation of win32 api, it does not tries t...
 freem Desktop Customization & Workflow 20 18,416 05-01-2021, 05:05 PM
  Thread: The Gemini protocol
Post: RE: The Gemini protocol
What happened to "do one thing, but do it well"? Why a F**king Transfer Protocol should define a damn file format? Also, why should such a protocol specify a builtin crypto? It's better to let special...
 freem The WWW 17 19,522 04-01-2021, 11:33 AM