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It's 2024 and I'm posting this from a text console. (feddit.org)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It started as a stupid project cause I was bored. How much can you actually do without a windowing environment?
After finding out how to post to lemmy from a TTY, I realized that I can do most things I do daily using text.
Browsing the web in links, which opens all sorts of files in the corresponding programs if configured correctly.
Opening images in fbi, PDFs in fbpdf, listening to music in cmus, watching movies in mplayer, using e-mail in alpine, creating documents in vim and latex, ...
The only thing that still requires a GUI is image editing and a few websites I need that don't work without JavaScript.
And it's actually really nice...more focused, without loading times, animations, popups, ads, or other distractions, and everything is scriptable.

Anyway, sorry for the blog post.

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[–] [email protected] 159 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Fuck you, you really made me check on my phone if all my text looks like this :(
(Your comment showed up "fine", by the way)

Yes, I think I will. Not exclusively, of course. But starting Firefox in Wayland just takes a key combo and 5 seconds if needed.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Starting Firefox takes 5 seconds? I start thinking I need to optimise if it takes more than 2

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It takes 5 seconds when the PC has to start up a wayland compositor, first.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Ahhh my bad I didn't read your comment properly, assumed you meant with a desktop running already

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What wayland compositor do you use for that? Have you tried cage?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use Gnome.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've found cage to be really convenient when you want to run a single app from a tty. 5s to start gnome + ff is pretty good, though. Not sure how cage would compare.

https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

See, that's another great thing about this experiment: I get to discover all kinds of cool new tools.
Thanks for that, looks exactly like what I need.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Make sure to check out the params on it. I noticed by default it disables the ability to switch tty via the keyboard shortcuts. Seems the main use for it is in "kiosk mode", so they don't want users to be able to escape the app easily. There's a param to disable that so you can still pop over to another tty (I forget what it is off the top of my head).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Launching it using the raw framebuffer means it blocks the screen until you close it, and there's no means to do anything else except switching to another TTY, is that it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Firefox doesn't run in the framebuffer. It opens under Wayland in another tty.