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Thread: What distribution would you fork?
Post: RE: What distribution would you fork?
| I would not mind creating a lightweight desktop distribution for i386 and PowerPC based on Sabotage Linux. Ideally, it should provide a preconfigured fvwm or icewm desktop. |
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GNU/Linux
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06-01-2025, 06:49 AM |
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Thread: Try and review tools.
Post: RE: Try and review tools.
| nq — Command line queueing utility.
These small utilities allow creating very lightweight job queue systems which require no setup, maintenance, supervision, or any long-running processes. |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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06-01-2025, 06:35 AM |
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Thread: Old vi
Post: RE: Old vi
| I like to use plain vi for file editing and scripting; few years ago I covered my setup in Set up vi(1) for modern usage |
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Old school stuff
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06-01-2025, 06:31 AM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| This is my take at a 4Dwm inspired Motif desktop, using Emwm. It's not as advanced as Shrek's, considering I just applied some X11/Xm resource tweaking, but it works nicely.
Dotfiles available at htt... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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1,744 |
2,603,481 |
06-01-2025, 06:27 AM |
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Thread: Which BSD do you use?
Post: RE: Which BSD do you use?
| (23-05-2022, 08:52 AM)seninha Wrote: Then I gave OpenBSD a chance. I continued studying the code, and spotted a few more small bugs. One may think that discovering bugs (even being small bugs) in an... |
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BSD
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55,186 |
11-06-2022, 10:03 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| I've been lately curating a pkgsrc repo for Slackware 15.0. It definitely required some dedication (smaller quirks to fix), but eventually allowed me to easily deploy and maintain software which is n... |
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Programming On Unix
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435,482 |
11-06-2022, 09:52 AM |
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Thread: First Time you used 'Linux' ?
Post: RE: First Time you used 'Linux' ?
| I first came in contact with UNIX as I installed OpenSolaris at high school in 2009; I've played with it and OpenIndiana on and off for few years (still a heavy Windows user at the time), until I move... |
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GNU/Linux
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113,040 |
11-06-2022, 09:46 AM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| In the meantime, I present my last experiment. A mostly pkgsrc based Solaris 11.4 CBE desktop (fvwm3), inspired by the CDE look of Solaris 8 to 10, and running as a QEMU/NVMM guest on NetBSD/amd64.
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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2,603,481 |
08-04-2022, 10:02 PM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| (03-04-2022, 06:35 PM)Shrek Wrote: I used these and made a bunch of my own icons, color schemes, configs and a few custom apps and I'm turning them into a desktop environment for Linux (and probably... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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1,744 |
2,603,481 |
08-04-2022, 09:58 PM |
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Thread: A Curated Newsletter
Post: RE: A Curated Newsletter
| (25-03-2022, 10:28 AM)venam Wrote: (25-03-2022, 09:57 AM)VMS Wrote: I'm interested in a newsletter; didn't even know this was a thing, as I'm rather new here. Is there an atom feed available?There... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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25-03-2022, 11:35 AM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| (25-03-2022, 10:29 AM)seninha Wrote: I love your desktop. Very consistent and beautiful.
Thanks!
Quote:FVWM is my favorite wm, I like it even more than my own wm.
Concurring on this. I can see som... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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2,603,481 |
25-03-2022, 11:32 AM |
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Thread: A Curated Newsletter
Post: RE: A Curated Newsletter
| I'm interested in a newsletter; didn't even know this was a thing, as I'm rather new here. Is there an atom feed available? |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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44,916 |
25-03-2022, 09:57 AM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| (23-11-2021, 10:37 AM)cyr4x3 Wrote: using xmonad with xmobar right now
I really love this colorscheme, well done!
In the meantime, here's a new dark/cyan fvwm theme for my Slackware box:
[Image: h... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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1,744 |
2,603,481 |
25-03-2022, 09:53 AM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| ctwm theme based on srcery colors.
[Image: https://i.postimg.cc/GmDvQTmj/srcery-ctwm-comb.png] |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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1,744 |
2,603,481 |
20-03-2022, 07:01 PM |
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Thread: Your top 10 commands
Post: RE: Your top 10 commands
| (01-03-2022, 06:04 AM)venam Wrote: What's your process to search in the history file?
I use a function like:
Code:# show history
h() {
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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12,829 |
01-03-2022, 02:50 PM |
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Thread: Launchers
Post: RE: Launchers
| I've recently discovered this rofr.sh script, which makes rofi's cli much more flexible and easier to use imho.
As for searching web, I use this `ssurf' script to launch a surf session with 'sane' de... |
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GNU/Linux
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28-02-2022, 03:51 PM |
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Thread: Your Audio Setup
Post: RE: Your Audio Setup
| Usually I simply reply on NetBSD's audio(4) system, which at the same time provides in-kernel hardware support, an in-kernel mixer able to manage multiple buffers at the same time, and a usersace soun... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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28-02-2022, 12:21 PM |
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Thread: Your top 10 commands
Post: RE: Your top 10 commands
| I prefer not to keep a static history file, as I may type sensitive information on the terminal; instead, I like to have per-session history:
Code: if [ -d ~/.history ]; then
&... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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28-02-2022, 11:48 AM |
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Thread: display managers
Post: RE: display managers
| I've always used xdm, with occasional slim experimentation. I currently have a very simple dark theme, which you can see below:
[Image: https://i.postimg.cc/wvd9y0YQ/xdm1024.png]
This is generated b... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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28-02-2022, 11:42 AM |
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Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?
| In terminals (URxvt client) and Xlib/Motif apps, I mainly use limey (artwiz-lime mod) and antidote(artwiz-cure mod), you can find both here. I'm confident several users here are already familiar with... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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28-02-2022, 11:27 AM |
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Thread: What do you use as a system monitor
Post: RE: What do you use as a system monitor
| (13-02-2022, 05:49 AM)venam Wrote: On that note, I also forgot I have a script for battery status that pops up at certain intervals.
I do have one too on NetBSD, and the concept is somehow similar:
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Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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15-02-2022, 01:14 PM |