[Klug-general] Bash / Curl Scripting Tuition 4

[Julia Freeman]

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On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:15:21PM +0100, David Halliday wrote:
> I personally like working with the command line, but like doing it with a
> window manager (GUI desktop) but I am at the moment using a window manager
> that isn't too graphical (Not many bells and whistles) called fluxbox.
> 
> You can install linux without any graphical desktops but I think that most
> people like to have an amount of graphical interface around them for some
> things viewing/editing images and videos for one.
> 
> If you aim to strip away all/most GUI stuff then using a distribution like
> Debian might be more for you but will have a steeper learning curve.

Did I hear minimal window manager?

Did I hear CLI? Hi.

As anyone who has met me or read my mails to the list knows, I am a great
fan of the command line, I use it for most things, from email (mutt), to
web browsing (links), editing (vi), even playing music (mplayer/ogg123). 

But, for all that I love of the command line, I do not use it exclusively.
I run a GUI. Admittedly it is a very very minimalist GUI. And when I say
minimalist, I mean it:

http://quixotic.eu/misc/screen-2007-02-08.png

This is a typical view of my desktop. As you can see its got lots of
command line goodness going on, but, I still have access to more sensible
applications such as mozilla (not pictured), or xmms for music. Note, I
run xmms in the background like then talk to it via xmms-shell, via the
command line. What you wont see is silly title bars, unneeded menus, and
desktop environment eye candy wasting resources...

It is a setup that works well. 

So, before anyone jumps in and goes wholey CLI, stop and think, are you
actually just making pain for yourself? is there a more sensible middle
ground? 

> Please can you reply to emails rather than sending one with a new subject so
> that the discussion is kept together in peoples email clients and on the
> on-line list archive.

Can I second this, the In-Reply-To: header is an intrisic part of the
email system and allows for a better understanding of the relationship of
emails. Emails are not a series of independant posts, but a collective
series of statements intended to make a proposition... 

J
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