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Re:WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal by JdeBP on Thursday May 31, 2018 @12:15PM (#17197480)
There was a point where it was that simple to run GUI widgets on a desktop, too. The likes of xman and xclock were just that, programs that one could just run and stop.
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Re:WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal by earenndil on Thursday May 31, 2018 @04:48PM (#17200097)
Such things are not dead! I still use one for my clock (buici-clock) and another to show battery life (xbattbar).
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