Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-25 Thread Emanuele Rusconi
On 25 May 2015 at 10:01, Franz Fellner alpine.art...@gmail.com wrote: * llpp for pdfs I didn't know it. I seems great! I use qpdfview. And zathura on mupdf as an alternative but it has some issues. +1 for feh. -- Emanuele Rusconi

RE: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-25 Thread Franz Fellner
I use: * ranger for file management (if I need a file manager); tried MC which I didn't like. Tried to use krusader (which also is a commander-like FM for kde), but it also never worked for me... I just have no need for a split view in 99% of the cases, and ranger IMHO uses the space uch

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-25 Thread Guy-Laurent Subri
I also use zathura and feh. For RSS and podcasts, I use newsbeuter (and podbeuter that comes with it). Also, I'm a big fan of vim, so my browser is vimb (luakit is also a good choice IMO). BTW, Emanuele, what kind of issues do you have with zathura ? I don't have any. -- Guy-Laurent Subri On

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-25 Thread Emanuele Rusconi
On 25 May 2015 at 14:33, Guy-Laurent Subri guy-laur...@subri.ch wrote: BTW, Emanuele, what kind of issues do you have with zathura ? I don't have any. For some PDFs it can't read the outline (bookmarks, whatever they are called) and freezes when I try to open the outline view. llpp seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread behrouz khosravi
Thanks Meino. What do you mean by: session-management = windowmanagement I dont know i3wm Its a tiling window manager. I have used it and I recommend it to anyone interested in tiling window managers. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Ramdziana Feri Y
On 05/24/2015 05:32 PM, behrouz khosravi wrote: Torrent client? Hi behrouz, for simple torrent client I just use aria2. I never use the others.

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Andrew Savchenko
Hi, On Sun, 24 May 2015 15:02:13 +0430 behrouz khosravi wrote: Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Sebastián Pedersen
On 24-05-2015 07:32 AM, behrouz khosravi wrote: Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console based tools mostly.

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread rhannek
On 24/05/15 15:01, Andrew Savchenko wrote: I depends on personal preferences. I'm not sure why, but I always had problems with intensive mail traffic and mutt. Also many mails are html-base and mutt is not the best way to deal with them. (I know that html mails are disgusting, but too many

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Lee
On May 24, 2015 3:33 AM, behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread wabenbau
Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am 24.05.2015 um 16:14 schrieb waben...@gmail.com: behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I will also replace KDE with i3wm. What do you recommend as a replacement for kmail? (is mutt a

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Heiko Baums
Am 24.05.2015 um 16:14 schrieb waben...@gmail.com: behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I will also replace KDE with i3wm. What do you recommend as a replacement for kmail? (is mutt a good choise?) Many years ago I also looked

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 12:07 PM, behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: I dont know i3wm Its a tiling window manager. I have used it and I recommend it to anyone interested in tiling window managers. What's your take on xmonad? +1 for irssi midnight commander anyone?

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread wabenbau
behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Meino . Cramer
behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com [15-05-24 12:39]: Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console based tools

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Heiko Baums
Am 24.05.2015 um 12:32 schrieb behrouz khosravi: Torrent client? rtorrent is quite good.

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Alan Grimes
My pattern: 1. Use FVWM for 5 years. 2. Get sick of it. 3. Try every wm out there and find they all suck nuts. 4. Go to step 1. -- IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. Powers are not rights.

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 03:02:13PM +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread behrouz khosravi
Thanks everyone. +1 for mc too! On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 8:49 PM, Alan Grimes alonz...@verizon.net wrote: My pattern: 1. Use FVWM for 5 years. 2. Get sick of it. 3. Try every wm out there and find they all suck nuts. 4. Go to step 1. -- IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. Powers

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 05/24/15 06:32, behrouz khosravi wrote: Torrent client? Another +1 for transmission - the transmission-remote CLI is good, and the client-server model is great. rtorrent has always seemed a little off for me, and seems to do a lot of computation in its GUI thread because it's not really

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Emanuele Rusconi
On 24 May 2015 at 23:30, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: (x)emacs. But he said keep the system small! ^__^ -- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 24.05.2015 um 12:32 schrieb behrouz khosravi: Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console based tools mostly.

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 24.05.2015 um 23:53 schrieb Emanuele Rusconi: On 24 May 2015 at 23:30, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: (x)emacs. But he said keep the system small! ^__^ -- Emanuele Rusconi init=/usr/bin/emacs doesn't get smaller than that...