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You know what, i just drop my personal list of noteworthy shell-tools here (note directfb2 and twin). And edir, clipboard, pass and portal/croc for the win.
alternatives
GUI alternatives
- draw: mouse drawing on the shell!
- imgfb: Draws a farbfeld or jpeg image to the Linux framebuffer
- baca: TUI e-book reader
- Terminal Image Viewer (tiv): what it says
- FIM: framebuffer image viewer -;derasterize: cli pixel to ANSI converter cli video playing: mpv --gpu-context=drm
- ts-polkitagent: Polkit Agent for the Shell (old)
- fbterm: framebuffer terminal
- twin: Textmode WINdow environment
- directfb2: framebuffer desktop
- csv to ascii art table via python pandas
Task Management:
- dun: note-taking & task manager
- cubby: encrypted note taking to cloud, with markdown
- girok: TUI calendar
Services:
File Manager:
- clifm: nice shell file manager with tagging
- nnn: cli fm with split-view file preview
- TUIFI Manager: cli fm with rendered images in 2D layout
- xplr: hackable, minimal, TUI fm
Login Manager:
Others:
ease of use
- edir: rename with text file
- clipboard: shell clipboard manager & more
- portal: cli file transfer agent between computers
- croc: simple file transfer tool via local server, Android Appp too
- transfer.sh: cli file sharing via cloud
- detox: file name cleanup
- ouch: simple de/compressor
- mnamer: intelligent video renamer
- gum: bells and whistles for shell scripters
- pytermgui: bells and whistles for python scripters
If someone has more/better tools, please shout.
Nah, it's just that lemmy can't do markdown.
edit: Oh. It does.
[Test2](https://example.com)Yeah maybe it's lemmy's fault, but removing the code block should fix it.
Linu
Brilliant, also works for Wayland systems
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It might be installed, but not used. You can't have both running. But there's a compatibility layer. Sometimes.
I believe XWayland does, in fact, use X. That's the way the compatibility layer works - anything that isn't wayland-native gets ran in an X server, and XWayland then handles the input and display between Wayland and the internal X server.
Oh, interesting. I should really try it out. But I've been on the "my machine's working, and there's no real incentive to change thing" team for a while now :D
Yeah, the reasons to switch to Wayland are either just to use the newest thing, or niche things like fractional DPI scaling support in GNOME. I started using it for that and decided to stick with it, even though I no longer need that, and so far it's been fine.
Many people complain about Wayland being a waste of time because of the missing features - I hope it grows to be a full fledged replacement of X, it's probably not something you should be explicitly switching to if you don't want to deal with the issues. I like setting things up and learning how stuff works, so it worked out for me.
I can tell you that if you switch, for example, screen sharing will probably be broken in various applications, you might experience some issued with copy/pasting between applications, screenshotting/screen recording software might have issues (in particular, there's no way for an app to know where its window is on the screen), at least on Plasma some apps/games will pause/stop working when minimized, because they stop rendering and they might have logic tied to that.
So... Yeah, might be fun to try out - you can have both installed at once and choose which you want on the greeter - but might not be good enough as a daily driver for you.
Do you know about any way to render nerd fonts in framebuffer? That's actually the only thing stopping me from using only terminal in most cases.