On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:02:24PM EST, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Just to name two of them: irssi is an excellent IRC client and mcabber > is a great Jabber client.
You can also take a look at weechat. Maybe it's me but everything I needed was there and implemented in such a way that I never even had to look at the (excellent) manual. A most intuitive application for terminal believers! > BTW, I find your discussion quite interesting [..] I'll second that .. _very_ interesting. Where I'm concerned... a "slim" _UI_ -- rather than the ever popular "window manager" misnomer -- is gnu/screen (mentioned elsewhere in this thread). The slimness I'm talking about is not about low RAM utilization .. it's about my own personal low "intra-cranial-cpu" utilization. :-) Bloat-free is really what matters in the end.. because BLOAT confuses you day in day out and slowly destroys the mind. My personal setup has the added advantage that I can run the same UI with the same exact look and feel whether I'm in X/XTerm or the linux console.. fbiterm or whatever.. And it's painless to switch.. because I can fall back on exactly the same old habits that are now wired into my fingers. Not to mention that even on the console, I still have on the last line of my display (no icons or fancy mini-graphs that the console cannot handle there..) all the useful counters that give me the system's current temperature, CPU utilization, memory and swap utilization, network up/down traffic activity.. not to mention the current date and time. I should add that I use the excellent 12-point "terminus" font both in X and the linux console. At my LCD's 1400x1050 native resolution this gives me precisely 232x86 columns/lines whether I run it on the linux console or a maximized XTerm. The only thing that tells the two contexts apart (that I badly miss..) is that the linux console does not support 256 colors. Hope that helps. CJ P.S. If anyone is interested, I can post screenshots of my setup over the weekend .. deeds better than words as they say... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
