On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 12:51:34AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2014-05-25 at 00:27 +0200, Filip wrote: > > On Sat, 24 May 2014 21:50:32 +0200 > > Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2014-05-24 at 15:34 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > feh to set the root window to a nice background image. > > > > > > I use feh --bg-scale for my Arch's JWM, but Esetroot -m for my > > > Debian's JWM. Perhaps Esetroot is obsolete. > > > > > > > Both are fine. > > > > > Did anybody already mention a terminal emulation? IMO a good terminal > > > emulation is ROXterm > > > > Yes, Roxterm is basically what gnome-terminal would and should be if it > > wasn't crippled by gnome. > > > > > and Sublime Text might be a good editor, I still > > > tend to use Pluma (quasi Gedit). > > > > > > > > > > > > > There are only two editors worth learning: emacs and vi/vim. Both are > > very different and each has it's fans. > > Using Pluma with root privileges indeed is bad, but emacs and vi/vim are > not that intuitive to use as a GUI editor is. Without a GUI I use nano > for basic editing, or if everything should break vi/m. Learning emacs > isn't wise, since vi/m is a core component (world) for *nix.
Vim is the only editor you will ever need. Ever. I use openbox, often without any panels or other DE stuff, or just conky in the corner to display time/date, cpu/mem net up/down, or if I want a panel, fbpanel. I definitely don't need or want a full-blown DE. Openbox does what I need, manages windows, allows me to configure keybindings, and otherwise stays out of my way. Terminator is my chosen terminal, vim my editor, if I need/want to use a graphical file manager, pcmanfm is my default (although I just tried out the xfe someone mentioned. Pretty nice.) If you want desktop icons on openbox (I don't), you can use idesk. I add a lot of keybindings to my rc.xml to get a lot of keyboard control to do stuff, launch frequently used apps, etc. I have feh set my wallpaper on login, but if I want to change it while logged in, I use nitrogen, which is a graphical tool for that. There's also gsetroot, another graphical wallpaper/background setting thingy. tony -- https://tonybaldwin.info art, music, software by me, tony 3F330C6E
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