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Long time nixers
Today is sunday, the challenge starts on tuesday (IIUC). I spent the better part of this sunday in "TTY only". I already wish that there were no web forums and that we were all still using newsgroups/usenet. Or at least mailing lists. I also already miss katriawm. (I put quite some effort in that program and I love using it.)

Anyway, I already spend a great deal of time in terminals, so I feel well prepared. :)

Still, I changed a few things:
  • Wrote "getpw-screen" to have a password manager available.
  • Got "browser-inputline" to work with pmenu and a text mode browser.
  • Got my favorite bird webcam running using mplayer+fbdev2.

I'll be adding a "nixers tty week" to all related commits in my github repos bin-pub and dotfiles-pub.

Tried to create a PSF version of my font qsqs, but I failed. bdf2psf insists on resizing the font to a width of 8 pixels, which looks terrible. I'll stick with Terminus for now.

After I got the bird webcam working with /dev/fb0, I began reading a little bit about how to use that device from a C program. Looks quite simple, I wasn't aware of that. Let's see if I'll make use of it at some point.

Learned quite a few things. This day was already worth it. :)

(This is more of a "no X11" challenge than a "TTY only" challenge, isn't it? Because in a "TTY only" challenge, usage of framebuffer would be a no-go, wouldn't it?)


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A Week In The TTY - by venam - 01-06-2015, 05:47 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by RoastPotatoes - 01-06-2015, 11:26 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by z3bra - 01-06-2015, 11:39 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by xero - 01-06-2015, 02:12 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by Wildefyr - 02-06-2015, 10:14 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by greduan - 02-06-2015, 10:21 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by venam - 06-06-2015, 11:03 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by pizzaroll1 - 06-06-2015, 06:29 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by October - 08-06-2015, 07:43 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by venam - 11-06-2015, 03:42 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by z3bra - 11-06-2015, 05:05 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by zr0 - 11-06-2015, 10:18 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by venam - 12-06-2015, 07:57 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by zr0 - 12-06-2015, 11:34 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by z3bra - 12-06-2015, 11:55 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by zr0 - 12-06-2015, 01:14 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by xero - 12-06-2015, 02:12 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by z3bra - 12-06-2015, 02:44 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by venam - 12-06-2015, 02:52 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by z3bra - 12-06-2015, 03:23 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by venam - 20-06-2015, 03:47 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by pizzaroll1 - 20-06-2015, 08:45 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by venam - 25-06-2015, 01:54 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by venam - 25-06-2015, 01:59 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by z3bra - 26-06-2015, 07:34 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by venam - 01-07-2015, 01:27 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by z3bra - 02-07-2015, 01:00 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by Wildefyr - 03-07-2015, 10:15 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by enephst - 04-07-2015, 10:11 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by josuah - 04-04-2016, 12:11 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by venam - 04-04-2016, 12:48 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by josuah - 04-04-2016, 03:58 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by ninjacharlie - 04-04-2016, 03:44 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by arcetera - 04-04-2016, 04:23 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by Wildefyr - 04-04-2016, 06:20 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by josuah - 04-04-2016, 08:26 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by Adrift - 04-04-2016, 11:12 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by venam - 05-04-2016, 12:57 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by Adrift - 05-04-2016, 01:23 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by Wildefyr - 05-04-2016, 03:22 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by josuah - 05-04-2016, 12:39 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by Adrift - 05-04-2016, 04:36 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by josuah - 06-04-2016, 07:36 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by ninjacharlie - 06-04-2016, 10:00 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by venam - 07-04-2016, 12:21 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by josuah - 07-04-2016, 08:36 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by venam - 05-06-2016, 12:20 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by xero - 06-06-2016, 11:12 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by sagittarius - 07-06-2016, 05:11 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by movq - 08-06-2016, 12:48 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by xero - 08-06-2016, 02:22 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by apk - 08-06-2016, 03:24 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by xero - 08-06-2016, 03:27 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by acg - 08-06-2016, 10:17 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by josuah - 09-06-2016, 01:03 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by f1st - 18-06-2016, 12:11 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by venam - 18-06-2016, 06:20 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by lemons - 18-06-2016, 02:32 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by venam - 19-06-2016, 03:42 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by lemons - 19-06-2016, 04:49 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by movq - 19-06-2016, 04:23 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by venam - 20-06-2016, 12:25 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by venam - 20-06-2016, 02:55 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by apk - 20-06-2016, 02:57 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by movq - 21-06-2016, 12:23 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by z3bra - 21-06-2016, 07:08 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by venam - 22-06-2016, 01:37 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by josuah - 22-06-2016, 02:48 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by pranomostro - 23-06-2016, 03:43 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by z3bra - 23-06-2016, 04:23 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by tudurom - 24-06-2016, 07:39 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by venam - 24-06-2016, 07:52 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by movq - 24-06-2016, 09:55 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by venam - 24-06-2016, 10:50 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by josuah - 24-06-2016, 01:54 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by z3bra - 25-06-2016, 02:49 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by apk - 25-06-2016, 03:00 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by z3bra - 25-06-2016, 04:14 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by movq - 25-06-2016, 04:16 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by movq - 25-06-2016, 05:50 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by z3bra - 25-06-2016, 05:53 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by josuah - 25-06-2016, 12:36 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by movq - 26-06-2016, 04:17 AM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by lemons - 26-06-2016, 03:37 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by josuah - 26-06-2016, 05:02 PM
RE: A Week In The TTY - by pranomostro - 28-06-2016, 05:19 AM