On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 10:40:20AM +0100, Martin "eto" Misuth wrote: > - mpd - the music player daemon - basically music player > - when spawned as it's own service outside of/before X it can keep music > playing even as you are tweaking you xorg.conf :) > - can route music over fifos through network and make many amchines play > same music
I will try that one, when I figure out how to configure it. > - rxvt-unicode - uberterminal > - this thing can operate as normal xterm-like term (process per session), > or as daemon, when single process hosts all your terminals > - benefits are increased new terminal startup speed (on my current box, > this is subsecond delay - helps when you treat terms as disposable > "surfaces"), and supposedly memory conservation, as lots of data is > shared > between the windows I was always using rxvt, and now not any more. Just xterm. It is bound to keys alt-ctrl-t and it quickly jumps up in front of me (maybe because other terms are already running). And I like the loggin feature, SVG screen dump and HTML dump. It is bloated, but working well. > - quassel - irc client > - irc client core runs as headless daemon, client present interface > - requires Qt and is quite heavy If I use GNU Emacs, the erc IRC client is there, so no need for me. > Many other things can be "adapted" to daemon, for example aria2c downloader > supports xmlrpc interface. There is slew of bittorrent clients, that can be > run > this way. In user-space, I am using HTTP server, fetching emails from servers, backup, and cron (using mcron in Guile). > Regarding "major" problem 1., that of crashing, rxvt-unicode is most "felt" > when > it trips over. Fortunately it is incredibly stable - I have crash it maybe one > or two times in 7 years time frame, daily use. I usually have 10-100 open > terminals per xsession. Wow so many? I have put in .bashrc: # Logging of .bashrc opening # file: terminalsopened.log is: chattr +a echo Terminal: `/bin/date +'%F-%T'` >> /home/data1/protected/tmp/terminalsopened.log 2> /dev/null So that I get a lot of how many times I open a terminal. Since 2016-01-03, until today, 18,979 times, or some 1700+ times per month, or 56 - 60 times per day. Jean Louis