Comments on: Debian without X http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/debian-without-x/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: tel93 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/debian-without-x/#comment-37074 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:04:35 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=889#comment-37074 On my Debian laptop I go textmode sometimes:
cmus in tty1
centericq in tty2
irssi in tty3
elinks in tty4

Most of my apps are textmode anyway.

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/debian-without-x/#comment-37073 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:49:27 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=889#comment-37073 Which is what I said.

]]> By: AndresVia http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/debian-without-x/#comment-37070 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:19:32 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=889#comment-37070 Is not Debian wich behaves like Ubuntu! is Ubuntu wich behaves like Debian!

]]> By: corky http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/debian-without-x/#comment-35883 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:31:36 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=889#comment-35883 Everyone should go textmode-only every now and then. It’s like fasting — it helps clean out lots of mental cruft.

Two of my latest finds might interest you if you’re ready for another go:

vifm is a lightweight file manager with vi-like key bindings. 123K executable versus mc’s 726K. http://vifm.sourceforge.net/

dvtm tiles your terminal in much the same way tiling window managers like ion or dwm manage your X desktop. I’ve found this to be a more productive environment that having each text mode app running in a separate tab of the terminal.
http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/

]]> By: Jeff Flowers http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/debian-without-x/#comment-35742 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:40:07 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=889#comment-35742 I did something similar back in 2001, using NetBSD. I did learn a lot but eventually, web browsing and picture viewing made me use X again.

Nowadays, I use Evilwm because it is so tiny.

]]> By: drunkenwallaby http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/debian-without-x/#comment-35736 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:33:08 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=889#comment-35736 @dosnlinux: You can scroll line by line with links2. Ctrl+n for line down and Ctrl+p for line up!

I’ve been living without X for quite some time too. The most annoying part I found was watching videos in fb which is not worth suggesting to anybody.

However, using a lightweight tiling-wm gives you more or less the “best of two worlds” :)

]]> By: dosnlinux http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/debian-without-x/#comment-35733 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:17:57 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=889#comment-35733 I’ve been X-less before. http://dosnlinux.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/cli-for-30-day-1/

The most annoying part I found was web browsing. The web is boring without all the CSS and colors, plus I wish you could scroll line-by-line in links and not by pages.

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