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It's 2024 and I'm posting this from a text console. (feddit.org)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by superkret@feddit.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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It started as a stupid project cause I was bored. How much can you actually do without a windowing environment?
After finding out how to post to lemmy from a TTY, I realized that I can do most things I do daily using text.
Browsing the web in links, which opens all sorts of files in the corresponding programs if configured correctly.
Opening images in fbi, PDFs in fbpdf, listening to music in cmus, watching movies in mplayer, using e-mail in alpine, creating documents in vim and latex, ...
The only thing that still requires a GUI is image editing and a few websites I need that don't work without JavaScript.
And it's actually really nice...more focused, without loading times, animations, popups, ads, or other distractions, and everything is scriptable.

Anyway, sorry for the blog post.

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 161 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Fuck you, you really made me check on my phone if all my text looks like this :(
(Your comment showed up "fine", by the way)

Yes, I think I will. Not exclusively, of course. But starting Firefox in Wayland just takes a key combo and 5 seconds if needed.

[–] andrewth09@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Starting Firefox takes 5 seconds? I start thinking I need to optimise if it takes more than 2

[–] superkret@feddit.org 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It takes 5 seconds when the PC has to start up a wayland compositor, first.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Ahhh my bad I didn't read your comment properly, assumed you meant with a desktop running already

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What wayland compositor do you use for that? Have you tried cage?

[–] superkret@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I use Gnome.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've found cage to be really convenient when you want to run a single app from a tty. 5s to start gnome + ff is pretty good, though. Not sure how cage would compare.

https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage

[–] superkret@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

See, that's another great thing about this experiment: I get to discover all kinds of cool new tools.
Thanks for that, looks exactly like what I need.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Make sure to check out the params on it. I noticed by default it disables the ability to switch tty via the keyboard shortcuts. Seems the main use for it is in "kiosk mode", so they don't want users to be able to escape the app easily. There's a param to disable that so you can still pop over to another tty (I forget what it is off the top of my head).

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Launching it using the raw framebuffer means it blocks the screen until you close it, and there's no means to do anything else except switching to another TTY, is that it?

[–] superkret@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Firefox doesn't run in the framebuffer. It opens under Wayland in another tty.