Re: [dev] Introducing XLSH

2011-10-22 Thread Mikael Schönenberg
2011/10/21 Michał Siejak : > Back to the topic: xlsh github page now has proper wiki with HOWTOs on > compiling and installing it on Arch and Ubuntu Linux as well as > configuration articles. Head to: https://github.com/Nadrin/xlsh/wiki Thanks for writing this, Michał. Some reports on getting it

Re: [dev] Introducing XLSH

2011-10-22 Thread hiro
well I had a lot of fun coding it and it works for me do we have a fortunes file?

Re: [dev] Introducing XLSH

2011-10-21 Thread Catalin David
Awesome! Will try it soon and let you know about the results. Catalin 2011/10/21 Michał Siejak : > Lots of nice and simple solutions here. I, by no means, claim > xlsh/xlshd is the best way to ditch popular *DMs but well I had a lot > of fun coding it and it works for me. :) > > Back to the topic

Re: [dev] Introducing XLSH

2011-10-21 Thread Michał Siejak
Lots of nice and simple solutions here. I, by no means, claim xlsh/xlshd is the best way to ditch popular *DMs but well I had a lot of fun coding it and it works for me. :) Back to the topic: xlsh github page now has proper wiki with HOWTOs on compiling and installing it on Arch and Ubuntu Linux a

Re: [dev] Introducing XLSH

2011-10-21 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Andrew Hills wrote: > Do you use all (six?) of your ttys? No, I usually run bash on two to four ttys, and Xorg on one.

Re: [dev] Introducing XLSH

2011-10-21 Thread Andrew Hills
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > It's far from terrible, but passing the filename of a short script to > a minimalistic statically compiled shell from init seams cleaner. But > your way doesn't pose any problems if you don't ever use bash on tty1. > I do so on daily bas

Re: [dev] Introducing XLSH

2011-10-21 Thread hiro
> It's not like I can remove bash if I stop using it for this... Why?

Re: [dev] Introducing XLSH

2011-10-21 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 10/21/11, Anders Andersson wrote: > It's not like I can remove bash if I stop using it for this, and the > extra milliseconds while starting X doesn't bother me much compared to > having a completely new program that replace those lines. > It's far from terrible, but passing the filename of a s

Re: [dev] Introducing XLSH

2011-10-21 Thread Christophe-Marie Duquesne
> # auto startx if logging in at VC/1 > if [[ -z "$DISPLAY" ]] && [[ $(tty) = /dev/tty1 ]]; then >   startx >& ~/.myXLog >   logout > fi I do the same. Fastest login manager I know. If you have anything faster to suggest, I'll take it.

Re: [dev] Introducing XLSH

2011-10-21 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:00:48 -, Anders Andersson > wrote: >> >> My .bash_profile looks like this: >> >> # auto startx if logging in at VC/1 >> if [[ -z "$DISPLAY" ]] && [[ $(tty) = /dev/tty1 ]]; then >>   startx >& ~/.myXLog >>   lo

Re: [dev] Introducing XLSH

2011-10-20 Thread hiro
Overkill? We amerce using bash like Genocides.

Re: [dev] Introducing XLSH

2011-10-20 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:00:48 -, Anders Andersson wrote: My .bash_profile looks like this: # auto startx if logging in at VC/1 if [[ -z "$DISPLAY" ]] && [[ $(tty) = /dev/tty1 ]]; then startx >& ~/.myXLog logout fi Uhm, so you've configured bash to exit immediately after starting X if

Re: [dev] Introducing XLSH

2011-10-20 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > Myself, I used to run openvt bash from inittab. Anyone who knows how > to do anything useful in a commandline knows how to boot from an > alternative OS anyway. (Now I use login for no generally applicable > reason). My .bash_profile lo

Re: [dev] Introducing XLSH

2011-10-20 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
Myself, I used to run openvt bash from inittab. Anyone who knows how to do anything useful in a commandline knows how to boot from an alternative OS anyway. (Now I use login for no generally applicable reason).

Re: [dev] Introducing XLSH

2011-10-20 Thread hiro
The most suckless login was in windows 95 and 98 where one could just press escape to login.

Re: [dev] Introducing XLSH

2011-10-20 Thread Hannes Blut
> Thanks for sharing your work and I am waiting for some sort of > tutorial to make it run on my machine. +1 pgpKmRxZqPFS0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [dev] Introducing XLSH

2011-10-19 Thread Catalin David
Hey! 2011/10/19 Michał Siejak : > Hello. > > Recently I've written a simple program for myself and I think it fits > well into minimalistic suckless philosophy, so I present to you XLSH > or eXtended Login Shell. Let me paste a chunk of relevant info from > the README file: > > A simple login shel

[dev] Introducing XLSH

2011-10-19 Thread Michał Siejak
Hello. Recently I've written a simple program for myself and I think it fits well into minimalistic suckless philosophy, so I present to you XLSH or eXtended Login Shell. Let me paste a chunk of relevant info from the README file: A simple login shell with readline functionality and PAM integrati