Talking Points

Rational

Sometimes, X.org just doesn't want to work

Esspecially if you are a dumb n00b running Arch

The terminal will always be there for you.

Applications:

My .bashrc:

Environment Variables:

export EDITOR=nvim

export PAGER=most

export BROWSER=lynx

export XDG_DATA_HOME="$HOME/.local/share"

export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"

PS1: user@hostname:~ (git_branch) $

if [[ $EUID == 0 ]]; then

export PS1="[e[1;31m]u[e[m]@[e[0;32m]h[e[m]:w$(__git_ps1) # "

else

export PS1="[e[1;34m]u[e[m]@[e[0;32m]h[e[m]:w$(__git_ps1) $ "

fi

Aliases:

alias vim=nvim

alias play=mpv

Productivity ("Window Manager"): tmux

Provides an easy way of splitting a tty into various panes

Get multiple workspaces for free with CTL+ALT+F{1,2,3,4,5,6,7}

All of the tiling window manager, none of the X-it

Can set up if [ -t 0 ] && [[ -z $TMUX ]] && [[ $- = *i* ]]; then exec tmux; fi in .bashrc in order to have tmux start/stop with your terminal sessiion.

Music: cmus

Easy library and playlist management

Dead simple to use (with cmus-tutorial)

y to yank songs onto a playlist

SPA to select a playlist

RET to play a song/playlist

TAB to switch between panes

Pictures: fim

Requires user be in the video group for permission to use the Linux framebuffer

Radio/Video/single audio files: mpv

Can display video in terminal (badly with libcaca)

Can actually display video in linux framebuffer (with drm)

Can handle all of your somafm files/web-video links

Requires youtube-dl for video

Podcasts/RSS: newsboat/podboat

Orginizes all of your podcasts and RSS feeds into an easy-to-use ncurses interface

Can be set up with player "mpv --save-position-on-quit" to save positions on podcasts

Very convinent for articles, less so for podcasts

Really needs better integration with something like cmus

Runner Up: podfox

Can be configured with JSON

Has better directory structure than podboat, imo

Tree based structure vs shove everything in ~ by default

Text Editing/Word Processing: neovim/GitX Flavored Markdown/pandoc

Clean modal editing

Can export to whatever with pandoc

Probably not as good as OrgMode if emacs wasn't the HFS+ of text editors

Audio Recording/Post-Processing: ffmpeg

One alias and three scripts in my .bashrc

record: alias record="ffmpeg -f alsa -channels 1 -i hw:1"

atrim, top-tail, and anorm: Allows me to quickly spin up a recording and run post processing

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