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I'd love to be able to ditch the gui entirely, I've found working from a TTY really helps me focus on the actual work I'm supposed to be doing
Unfortunately the one impossible hurdle is the web browser. Have kinda got around the need for it mostly with an llm cli for basic questions but will always find myself needing to fire up a window manager just to get a browser eventually
Also doesn't help that I'm primarily a web developer
always find myself needing to fire up a window manager just to get a browser eventually
A chromeless tiling WM is basically invisible and AFAIK has almost zero performance impact. That's roughly what I do.
I usually use gamescope for that purpose but it's still a bit of a pain and takes me out of the tmux/helix loop
cage is a minimalist Wayland compositor that only shows a single application in fullscreen. When you close the app, it drops you back to your console.
It's compatible with programs that need X11 through XWayland, and it has practically no loading times.
cage -ds firefox would open Firefox in fullscreen.
Option -d hides client-side decorations and -s allows you to switch from Wayland to another TTY using Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6]
I put aliases for the programs I use in my .bashrc so I can just type FF[Enter] and a second later I have Firefox open.
Reject pixel-graphics, install aalib
;^)
it's all just curling some jsons and slapping some paint and shit on top of that.
Okay, I've wanted to do the same thing for ages. Time to follow up my words with action!
Why alpine instead of mutt? It must be some 20 years since I least heard about pine or any of its forks
Because I'm too dumb to configure mutt.
Alpine is an email client.
Mutt is a maildir reader which you can use as a part of your DIY email client.
… what? mutt can talk imap and smtp natively, I don’t know what else you need to qualify as an “email client”
Give browsh a try
I did. It doesn't accept mouse clicks from gpm, and it doesn't offer keyboard navigation. Both issues are long-standing bugs that also affect the Chrome version, Carbonyl.
Pretty cool, this is how people used computers before, but back then computers couldn't do as many things as they can now
I would not recommend web links opening in other programs.