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On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 10:42:51PM -0600, Kevin Monceaux wrote |
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> I'm old fashioned. I use text based apps as much as possible. |
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> I'm using mutt and vim to compose this e-mail, for example. They're |
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> running under screen, which is running in an rxvt-unicode terminal |
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> under dwm. I could detach my screen session, exit rxvt-unicode and |
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> bounce dwm without having to exit vim or mutt. I also have music |
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> playing via moc in another screen session. Thanks to screen I could |
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> bounce my window manager without missing a beat. :-) |
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Years ago, I used to run mutt and newsreaders in separate text tty's. |
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Then the developers "in their infinite wisdom" switched from VGA text |
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mode drivers to framebuffer drivers. (mumble grumble mutter mutter) |
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It's basically impossible to come up with an 80-column text screen. |
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You'd need 24-pixel-wide text fonts to get 80 columns on a |
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1920-pixel-wide monitor. I'd settle for 12-pixel-wide text fonts, and |
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doing a split-screen. |
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Back then, my answer to "screen" was to push the system to 9 text |
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tty's. tty10 and tty11 were reserved for X, and tty12 for system |
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messages. Here's a fragment from my /etc/inittab |
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c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux |
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c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux |
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c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux |
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c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux |
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c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux |
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c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux |
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c7:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty7 linux |
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c8:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty8 linux |
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c9:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty9 linux |
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Mutt (mail in general) is one thing I have no problem with stopping |
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and starting. However, newsgroups have been replaced by webboards |
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(bleagh). I have over 20 profiles for my browser. This allows me to |
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bring up a specific forum in a specific workspace. I also have multiple |
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spreadsheets continuously open for daily updates, as a hobby. Browsers |
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and spreadsheets don't restore. Browsers are supposed to restore after |
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being killed, but they don't always restore to the exact same point in |
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the forum. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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