Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

. If you use systemd net-misc/netctl has a nice curses UI but I've only tried on Arch. -- Fernando Rodriguez

[gentoo-user] Re: Small (as in footprint) window manager

er, I suppose it's better than having > to edit that by hand... they could've uses a cli or curses interface or > something. A web UI has been pretty much the standard way to of doing things like that for the past few decades. -- Grant Edwards gran

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:05:28 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: A curses setup program should please the frugal engineers, or would you prefer to alter the MySQL table files with a hex editor? ;-) I usually do one of three things: 1) Type SQL commands. 2) Use Mythweb. 3) Run

[gentoo-user] Re: fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

:) It still grates on the engineering nerve a bit. ;) A curses setup program should please the frugal engineers, or would you prefer to alter the MySQL table files with a hex editor? ;-) I usually do one of three things: 1) Type SQL commands. 2) Use Mythweb. 3) Run the setup program so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Small (as in footprint) window manager

uses a cli or curses interface or something. That said, it's been many years since I've run MythTV. I switched to SageTV because of the brilliantly small and silent set-top-boxes. But Google bought SageTV and pulled the plug on that, so a year or two back I switched to Plex (which you configure

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Small (as in footprint) window manager

use a GUI setup program on a "headless" >> server, always seemed like a massively stupid design decision. > > Yes, it was a dumb decision. However, I suppose it's better than > having to edit that by hand... they could've uses a cli or curses > interface or something. > &g

[gentoo-user] Re: Another reason to begin USE with -*

-perl/Curses-1.13 USE=-minimal 78 kB [ebuild N] dev-perl/Pod-Escapes-1.04 USE=-minimal 9 kB [ebuild N] dev-perl/Pod-Simple-3.03 USE=-minimal 247 kB [ebuild N] dev-perl/Test-Pod-1.22 USE=-minimal 6 kB [ebuild N] dev-perl/Curses-UI-0.95 USE=-minimal 138 kB [ebuild N

Re: [gentoo-user] CLI Torrent client(s)?

you get used to using the pageup / pagedwn keys (and working out the function-key equivalents on a cramped MacBook keyboard). `deluge-console` starts the curses interface and once it's running you can run commands like `info` to show the status of torrents (use `info abce123` to show the status