Re: Another GNU/Linux Video Extravaganza!

On 2024-05-25, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:

Le 25-05-2024, Diego Garcia <dg@chaos.rocks> a écrit :

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colavid.mp4

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Once again, thanks for the good laugh (in the beginning, I didn't looked
at everything because it becomes boring). With this video, you proved,
once again, that I'm ten times faster than you.
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First, when you are writing the name of a directory in your terminal,
you should use your [TAB] key: it's faster and it would avoid you to
misspell it (and the need to write it a second time).
>
Second, why do you use a terminal to launch GUI applications? I know,
it's because you are unable to configure your menu. It shows because it
takes you forever to find your applications in it. You should learn how
to configure it.
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I never launch a GUI program from a terminal because it's inefficient.
When you do it, you show me how I'm right about it.
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When you launch your GUI applications from the terminal, you have two
issues. And that takes forever. The first one is you need to move it on
another workspace, you do it with your mouse and it's slow (and when you
loose the focus and interact with another application, it's fun to see
how you struggle to do basic things). And second, when your application
is on your right workspace, you need to resize it. Which takes you
forever a second time.
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When you launch something every day, it should be very fast and your way
is very slow. I don't need a mouse driven menu, but for a GUI lackey
like you, you should configure it to suit your needs and to be
efficient.
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You would have the support of the -highthorse here because he will say
that the professional designers who provided you the menu know better
than you how you should use your computer. But he's a brain dead moron
unable to see how your use of tools designed by others is inefficient,
so it doesn't count.

I don't use the mouse to launch GUI applications from the terminal. If I
want to open a Trelby document (as an example) I do the following.

Shift-Control-M to open a terminal

. trel _name_

And I'm editing my file.

If I don't know the name of the document I want to edit, I run...

lst trel

...and all my Trelby documents are listed.

If I want to start a new document...

. trel _newname_

And I'm editing the document.

trel shell script

#!/bin/bash
clear
trelby ~/Documents/scripts/$1.trelby 2>/dev/null &
exit

The lst script is relatively long because I use it for several different
file extensions (some with more than one option and some in specific
directories).

case $1 in
   txt)
     echo "--------------------"
     ls *.txt
     echo "--------------------"
     ;;
   ltxt)
     echo "--------------------"
     ls -tl *.txt
     echo "--------------------"
     ;;  
   n)
     echo "--------------------"
     ls -pB | grep -v \. | grep -v /
     echo "--------------------"
     ;;
   pdf)
     echo "--------------------"
     ls *.pdf
     echo "--------------------"
     ;;
   lpdf)
     echo "--------------------"
     ls -tlr *.pdf
     echo "--------------------"
     ;;  
   trel)
     echo "--------------------"
     ls *.trelby
     echo "--------------------"
     ;;
   a)
     echo "--------------------"
     ls --color
     echo "--------------------"
     ;;
   fount)
     echo "--------------------"
     ls *.fountain
     echo "--------------------"
     ;;
   lfount)
     echo "--------------------"
     ls -tlr *.fountain
     echo "--------------------"
     ;;
   fdx)
     echo "--------------------"
     ls *.fdx
     echo "--------------------"
     ;;
   html)
     echo "--------------------"
     ls *.html
     echo "--------------------"
     ;;
   fade)
     echo "--------------------"
     ls -tlr *.fadein
     echo "--------------------"
     ;;
   note)
     echo "--------------------"
     cd ~/Documents/notes
     ls *.txt
     echo "--------------------"
     ;;
   doc)
     echo "--------------------"
     cd ~/Documents/docs
     ls *.txt
     echo "--------------------"
     ;;
   adoc)
     echo "--------------------"
     cd ~/Documents/html
     ls *.adoc
     echo "--------------------"
     ls *.html
     echo "--------------------"
     ;;
   d)
     echo "--------------------"
     cd ~/Documents/words
     ls *.txt
     echo "--------------------" 
     ;;
   j)
     echo "--------------------"
     cd ~/afterlabs
     ls *.json
     echo "--------------------"
     ;; 
   tel)
     echo "---------------------"
     cd ~/Documents/tel
     ls *.txt
     echo "---------------------"
     ;; 
   *)
     echo "--------------------"
     echo "No match"
     echo "--------------------"
     ;;
esac
      
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entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality."
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