On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:03:07AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > The route I've taken, so far, with experimental machines initting with > sysvinit, OpenRC, Epoch and Runit, was to remove as much "desktopism" > as possible. This isn't for everybody, but it works for me because I > never did like the high degree of "desktopism" that Xfce delivers. Desktops seem to aggregate a bundle of software that attempts to meet most of the major needs of most users, of necessity implying bloat (because it isn't tuned to what *a* user needs, it has features that each user will find useless). But generally the desktop-specific tools I've used seem to lack features I want. For a while, I used bits of LXDE, and that worked. But the most useful tools I've found are almost all independent projects: icewm, vim, nedit, xterm/urxvt, worker, mc, mtpaint/pixmap, links2, Ted, magicpoint... In contrast to that I have only gnumeric.
> My experience is that, on systemd-equipped distros on which you've > installed an alternate init, NetworkManager isn't worth the heartache > it takes to set up. Running the Wicd daemon and using the Wicd-gtk > client is an alternative that takes more keystrokes. Alternatively, > some day I'm going to create an nCurses equivalent of NetworkManager, > but not any time soon. Some you might be interested in: wicd-curses, ceni, or my own lame wpanet (github.com/idunham/wpanet; it's got a rudimentary dialog interface for generating and extending wpa_supplicant.conf that should be able to use xdialog or whiptail). The configuration part was not the point of wpanet; it was about starting wpa_supplicant and a dhcp client without relying on sleep, but there is an interface that I hope is fairly clear. Thanks, Isaac Dunham _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
