WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal

Re:WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal by inetknght on Thursday May 31, 2018 @09:27AM (#17196101)

I have yet to see a modern GUI that didn't put pretty little animations a higher priority than being modular and configurable and having as much or as little data density as I desire.

Command lines, on the other hand, do it natively if not intuitively.

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Re:WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal by organsnyder on Thursday May 31, 2018 @09:38AM (#17196175)

Have you seen GKrellM? http://gkrellm.srcbox.net/

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Re:WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal by MisterTea on Thursday May 31, 2018 @10:45AM (#17196675)

Their example demonstrates how cluttered the GUI is. I suppose you could change skins to something less gaudy but I bet that winds up looking like a terminal application.

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Re:WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal by oever on Thursday May 31, 2018 @01:24PM (#17198208)

You can set the width to be larger. I have it at 1000px. That makes a for a nice, light and informative status window.

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Re:WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal by monkeynotes on Thursday May 31, 2018 @10:26AM (#17196533)

My point was that at some point adding more desktop-like functionality to Terminal you essentially create a GUI.

I could argue that OSX / Ubuntu are modular and configurable and easily allow you to control data density too.

Ultimately it's obviously whatever tool makes you most productive. My comment was more of a flippant observation of the nature of human endeavour.

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Re:WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal by inetknght on Thursday May 31, 2018 @11:03AM (#17196810)

In my experience, OSX is not modular and configurable out-of-the-box. You need to install plugins.

Ubuntu is the red-headed stepchild of Linux which wants to be Windows. I use it at work. I hate it. I'd rather use Fedora.

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Re:WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal by reitanqild on Thursday May 31, 2018 @02:24PM (#17198752)

> Ubuntu is the red-headed stepchild of Linux which wants to be Windows.

Eh. It wants to be Mac:

- broken alt-tab? Check

- menu bar on top? Check

- dock? Check

- window controls moved to the left? Check

> I use it at work. I hate it.

So do I. But now after they moved to Gnome I can fix the worst usabilty issues.

It still crashes hard once a day despite me trying everything I can think of wrt swap, reserved memory etc. Might just be my RAM sticks though.

> I'd rather use Fedora.

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Re:WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal by reitanqild on Friday June 01, 2018 @09:17AM (#17204978)

>> I use it at work. I hate it.

> So do I.

Forgot to remove the part about hating it. I don't hate Ubuntu at all, I just question some implementation details.

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