Only Gtk2 or Command Line Interface

News Plus · 2015-06-20 13:51:28

Display Manager - $ startx / SLiM?

Desktop Environment - in the indefinite future

Window Manager - Openbox (of course)

Panel, Taskbar, Systray - tint2 (of course)

File Manager - Midnight Commander / Double Commander ( latest version )

Network Manager - ( Systemd-networkd / $ sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

System Monitor - Conky

Join in...

Last edited by News Plus (2015-06-20 14:07:20)

News Plus · 2015-06-20 13:59:19

Instead gsimplecal - in tint2 config:

clock_lclick_command = xterm -bg "rgb:51/52/53" -fg "rgb:aa/aa/aa" -geometry 20x10-5-30 -T 'Date' -e bash -c "ncal -1 && sleep 10"
clock_rclick_command = xterm -bg "rgb:51/52/53" -fg "rgb:aa/aa/aa" -geometry 56x10-5-30 -T 'Calendar' -e bash -c "ncal -3 && sleep 15"
clock_tooltip = %A %d %B

or calendar in conky.

Last edited by News Plus (2015-06-20 14:05:31)

News Plus · 2015-06-20 14:01:17

Instead GVFS - $ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

Nili · 2015-06-20 14:25:53

Installed on my sytem as follows:

File Manger
SpaceFM debian packgs
(utils): Multi-panel tabbed file manager - GTK2 version
ranger (debian packgs)
(utils): File manager with an ncurses frontend written in Python

Cleaner
Bleachbit (debian packgs)
(user) & (admin): delete unnecessary files from the system

Browser
Iceweasel debian packgs
(web): Web browser based on Firefox
w3m (debian packgs)
(web): WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support

Image Viewer
FEH (debian packgs)
(graphics): imlib2 based image viewer

Video Player
mpv (debian packgs)
(video): video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2

Audio Player/Mixer
MOC - Music on console (debian packgs)
(sound): ncurses based console audio player
Alsa (debian packgs)
(sound): Utilities for configuring and using ALSA

Text Editor
leafpad (debian packgs)
(editors): GTK+ based simple text editor

Chat Client
WeeChat (debian packgs)
Fast, light and extensible chat client

Processes Info
top
Top is a Unix utility that provides a rolling display of top cpu using processes.

Package Manger
aptitude (debian packgs)
terminal-based package manager (terminal interface only)

Speedtest-cli
speedtest-cli (debian packgs)
I have no flash-plugin installed! How can i check speedtest without flash? There we go...
Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net

Window Manager (WM)
SpectrWM (debian packgs)
(x11): dynamic tiling window manager
suckless-tools (debian packgs)
(x11): simple commands for minimalistic window managers

Junk/Orphaner Cleaner
(deborphan)
(admin): program that can find unused packages, e.g. libraries
Note: use with caution
Install "apt-get install dialog" to manage cli orphaner dialog (root only) or use cli:

deborphan --guess-data

deborphan --guess-all

Feed Reader
newsbeuter (debian packgs)
(net): text mode rss feed reader with podcast support

Dupe Finder
fdupes (debian packgs)
FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.

Startup manager
(rcconf)
(admin): Debian Runlevel configuration tool

Theme manager
LXDE - lxappearance (debian packgs)
(utils): a new feature-rich GTK+ theme switcher

Console/Terminal
rxvt-unicode (debian packgs)
(x11): RXVT-like terminal emulator with Unicode support.
Note: it is not so lightweight, there are more lighter around, however I have chosen this one.

Panel
conky-cli (debian packgs)
Highly configurable system monitor, his is a basic package that can be useful in servers or piped with dzen2. It includes the following support: MPD, MOC, math, apcupsd, ncurses and I/O stats.

Screen Shot
scrot (debian packgs)
(graphics): command line screen capture utility

Torrent Client
µTorrent Linux (µTorrent Server 3.3 alpha build 30470)
Note: µTorrent is not an open source application.

Other Utils:
ps_mem
A utility to accurately report the core memory usage for a program

Package Installed/Number

dpkg --get-selections | wc -l

alias pn="dpkg --get-selections | wc -l"

1. Show numbers of Installed packages on your system.
2. Add to /home<you>/.bashrc, run "pn" to show the number.

dpkg -l | grep ^ii | less # list

alias pi="dpkg -l | grep ^ii | less # list && bash"

1.Show all packages installed on your system
2.Add to /home/<you>/.bashrc, run "pi" to show all installed packages.

Other info:
* I don't use any desktop environment (DE)
* Instead of Display manager like Slim, GDM or other... I use auto startx
* Instead of Network manager like connman,wicd, ceni - configured auto ifupdown
* Instead of Nitrogen (lighter GTK2) - wallpaper manager - i use this command on .xinitrc startup

##Set the wallpaper
feh --randomize --bg-scale ~/pictures/wall/*

- thanks to Arch Wiki
* Instead gsimplecal - in tint2 config:

clock_lclick_command = urxvt -geometry 56x10-930+875 -e bash -c "ncal -3 && sleep 5"

* Instead of zathura (pdf viewer) - opening PDF with Iceweasel current practical solution.

What i miss?
Zathura (the light weight PDF reader, but i am not going to install it because it's a GTK3 app) looking for a lightweight replacement.
FlashPlayer I am not going to install it, so far from what i read... there is still no better that approximated. In the end, I will not install at all. Hope HTML5 will rule all the flash videos on the Net soon or later.

recommend anything lighter GTK2/CLI application on this thread.
P.S. There is no need for detailed, just show some names for non time consuming

Regards,
Nili

Last edited by Nili (2015-07-28 18:22:20)

News Plus · 2015-06-20 14:29:34

Excellent!

News Plus · 2015-06-20 14:54:55

What else can we replace?

pingu · 2015-06-20 14:57:31

great! Ill put some of those tools for the test. loved the speedtest-cli, I never thought about looking for one instead of gooogling and clicking in the first link. As for torrents, i usually use ctorrent, simple commandline thing... I never tried using magnetic links with it though.

userx-bw · 2015-06-20 15:36:29

may be one should just go back to them old days where you just compile and install just what you need and no more deb's either, all command line get rid of this windows stuff and go black screen commano line Linux mode oh yeah and get rid of this mouse thing too -- just an idea ..

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-06-20 17:02:02

News Plus wrote:

Instead GVFS - $ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

You could also use the pmount wrapper script to mount devices as a normal user

For me?

No Display Managers! `startx` FTW!

Automate it by adding:

exec startx -- vt7

To ~/.bash_profile (or ~/.zprofile if you have upgraded your shell).

Window manager? dwm baby!
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=39751
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=65110

The panel is included in dwm's massive 1MiB runtime memory usage (cf. Openbox's ~10MiB).

Systrays are for wimps...
8o

File manager? I use the shell for file manipulation

If pushed, I would say ranger is the best alternative and very good for image previews -- better than thunar and all that stupid tumbler nonsense...

For the interweb?
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=39823 (thanks for the plug!)
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=39103

System monitor?
htop

*whispers* Don't tell S11 but I don't like desktop conky's...

Sector11 · 2015-06-20 17:30:12

News Plus wrote:

Instead gsimplecal - in tint2 config:

clock_lclick_command = xterm -bg "rgb:51/52/53" -fg "rgb:aa/aa/aa" -geometry 20x10-5-30 -T 'Date' -e bash -c "ncal -1 && sleep 10"
clock_rclick_command = xterm -bg "rgb:51/52/53" -fg "rgb:aa/aa/aa" -geometry 56x10-5-30 -T 'Calendar' -e bash -c "ncal -3 && sleep 15"
clock_tooltip = %A %d %B

or calendar in conky.

Nice stuff News Plus!

I like calendar in a conky - 9 months with this month in the centre: read it and close it!

Also some other options for "ncal" and an interactive one from "zenity":

So this works as well:

clock_lclick_command = zenity --calendar
clock_rclick_command = xterm -bg "rgb:51/52/53" -fg "rgb:aa/aa/aa" -geometry 56x10-5-30 -T 'Calendar' -e bash -c "ncal -3 && sleep 15"
clock_tooltip = %A %B %d

Options - gotta love options!

Sector11 · 2015-06-20 17:33:49

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Systrays are for wimps...
8o

And wives that don't understand computers.

Nili · 2015-06-20 17:43:48

The terminal cal -3 or ncal -3 ideal replacement for gsimplecal

News Plus · 2015-06-20 18:44:20

Thank you everyone! What or who else?

pingu · 2015-06-20 18:51:47

`sl` is a great one if you tend to mistype 'ls' ]:D
http://pkgs.org/search/?query=%22sl%22&type=smart

Last edited by pingu (2015-06-20 18:53:48)

Sector11 · 2015-06-20 19:02:27

@Nili et al:

cal vs ncal

they are the same believe it or not ... check the man page of either

NAME
     cal, ncal — displays a calendar and the date of Easter

SYNOPSIS
     cal [-3hjy] [-A number] [-B number] [[month] year]
     cal [-3hj] [-A number] [-B number] -m month [year]
     ncal [-3bhjJpwySM] [-A number] [-B number] [-s country_code] [[month] year]
     ncal [-3bhJeoSM] [-A number] [-B number] [year]
     ncal [-CN] [-H yyyy-mm-dd] [-d yyyy-mm]

ncal can do a few more things though.

Therefore 'ncal -b' to display the same as 'cal' gives the layout of 'cal' with the power of 'ncal'.

'cal -N' actually changes the command to 'ncal' and therefore has all the functions of 'ncal'
'ncal -C' changes the function to 'cal' and looses the functions of 'ncal'

That's why I use 'ncal -b' to get a 'cal' layout without loosing the 'ncal' functions

Display Easter for this year:

 20 Jun 15 | 15:54:20 ~
    $ ncal -C -e
Usage: cal [general options] [-hjy] [[month] year]
       cal [general options] [-hj] [-m month] [year]
       ncal [general options] [-bhJjpwySM] [-s country_code] [[month] year]
       ncal [general options] [-bhJeoSM] [year]
General options: [-NC31] [-A months] [-B months]
For debug the highlighting: [-H yyyy-mm-dd] [-d yyyy-mm]
 
 20 Jun 15 | 15:54:27 ~
    $ cal -N -e
 5 April 2015
 
 20 Jun 15 | 15:58:17 ~
    $ ncal -e
 5 April 2015
 
 20 Jun 15 | 15:58:28 ~
    $

It's a win-win situation!

'ncal' or 'ncal -b' = awesomeness!

Now if you really want to play: jcal - UNIX-cal-like tool to display Jalali calendar ]:D

    $ jcal
   Khordaad 1394    
Sh Ye Do Se Ch Pa Jo
                   1
 2  3  4  5  6  7  8
 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31

and one more: xcal - a graphical calendar with memos and reminder alarms

Nili · 2015-06-20 19:21:13

Very good review S11.

I also like different calendar events dates

nili@corejess:~$ calendar
Jun 20 	Victoria crowned, 1837
Jun 20 	Flag Day in Argentina
Jun 20 	West Virginia Day in West Virginia
Jun 20 	2nd Quarter Day - Summer Solstice
Jun 21 	Ganbold Tsagaankhuu <ganbold@FreeBSD.org> born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 1971
Jun 21 	Niels Heinen <niels@FreeBSD.org> born in Markelo, the Netherlands, 1978
Jun 21 	Berlin airlift begins, 1948
Jun 21 	Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge
Jun 21 	Columbia records announces the first mass production of LP's, 1948
Jun 21 	Litha (Norse/Anglo-Saxon for "longest day")
Jun 21*	Father's Day
Jun 21*	Father's Day (3rd Sunday of June)
Jun 21*	Summer Solstice

just type "calendar" on your terminal
P.S. i am updating my list ^above occasionally.

Last edited by Nili (2015-06-20 19:24:07)

News Plus · 2015-06-20 19:27:38

+ galternatives, clipit, radiotray, hardinfo, gtkhash, user-setup, bum...
+ screenfetch, inxi, glances, scrot...

Sector11 · 2015-06-20 19:46:09

Nili wrote:

Very good review S11.
just type "calendar" on your terminal
P.S. i am updating my list ^above occasionally.

I added some stuff to my post ... I see 'calendar' is prejudice to the northern hemisphere!

Jun 21*	Summer Solstice

that would be

Jun 21*	Winter Solstice

here.

I use "remind - sophisticated calendar and alarm program" as well ... but I use it in a conky here's the terminal output for this month as well:

Another app that fits this thread.

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