A Console Obsession
Sep 27, 2016 · 2 minute read · CommentsLinuxConsoleUnixporn
Recently I’ve gotten into running as many of my day-to-day applications in a Linux console. Thought I’d briefly share the applications I’ve been playing with.
GerTTY (http://gertty.readthedocs.io/en/master/): Synchronize and follow Gerrit-hosted projects, and perform code reviews. It’s a bit slow, but generally works pretty well once you get over the initial sync.
More Info: https://major.io/2016/05/11/getting-started-gertty/
Weechat (https://weechat.org/): IRC client with tiling-window manager like options. Can split the window into various buffers in either horizontal or vertical arrangements. Deals with multiple servers, and provides many plugins.
Profanity.IM (http://profanity.im/): XMPP client using libstrophe and ncurses for an IRSSI (see Weechat…) like interface. I’m using this to connect to the Slack XMPP gateway.
I had to build the project myself since there is no native RPM for Fedora. This meant I had to also compile libstrophe and get that all installed in the right location to make it available for Profanity. Not sure why, but I could never get Profanity to find it in
/usr/local/libso I gave up and installed libstrophe in/usr/lib64and all was well.More Info: http://nochair.net/posts/2015/11-09-linux-messaging.html
NeoMutt (http://www.neomutt.org/): Email application that I got working with my works (Red Hat) Google Apps service. So far I’m a rookie when it comes to using Mutt, but I’ve been reading and slowly learning some of the keys. The sidebar certainly helps. I had to map some custom stuff to move around the sidebar comfortable, but that wasn’t a big deal.
More Info: https://hobo.house/2016/08/08/switching-from-mutt-to-neomutt/
OfflineIMAP (http://www.offlineimap.org/): I’m currently writing this while waiting for all my email to sync offline (OMG there is so much…), so I don’t even have it fully integrated yet. OfflineIMAP is an application that I’ll integrate with NeoMutt so I can have offline email.
I don’t really travel a lot, but I’ve been told using this along with notmuch makes searching for emails really powerful.
More Info: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/
Notmuch (https://notmuchmail.org/): A powerful tag-based email search system. I haven’t even set this up yet, so I have no idea what I’m doing here :)