Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal?

On 2025-04-19, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:

Le 19-04-2025, Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> a écrit :

On 2025-04-18, Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> wrote:

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Yes, I know you can make a terminal full screen in a GUI,

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You are wrong about that. He can't: he never did it in the videos he
provided because it's well far beyond his capacities. I can, you can,
but he can't. He's pretending to use a terminal, but his videos show he
doesn't manage them well.
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but not having the options of distractions does make a difference.

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I'm not distracted by any options. I don't have any menu and by default,
when I'm opening a terminal in a new workspace it takes all the
available space by default. And, as always, it's exactly what I said
before about him: he's using an obsolete terminal and so can't see why a
terminal in a GUI is far superior to a terminal without a GUI.
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So, first, when I'm opening a terminal in a tilling Window Manager, the
terminal is full screen by default. The first great thing is: I can open
two terminals side by side at the same time. And for that, I believe you
need a GUI. Maybe screen or tmux can work without a GUI, if it's the
case I'm wrong but I'm not sure about it. And, it can be very convenient
to have two terminals opened side by side. Using [CTRL]+[F1] isn't as
easy as moving your eyes.
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But, modern terminals, like kitty or alacritty, help you to interact with
the output of a command. And that's a great change. It's really helpful
to be able to copy/paste the output of a command. Not always, but
sometimes I'm very happy to be using a terminal in a GUI which give me
some power the old school without a GUI wasn't able to provide me.
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I'm not saying you should switch to a GUI: you do what you want. But I'm
saying things have improved since the beginning of the GUI and the first
terminals. And if you are willing to use a CLI/TUI as much as possible,
a GUI is not a bad option.
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I have a sort of quasi-tiling in FVWM, so with a keypress I can move a
window to the top, bottom, left or right half, or just tile existing
windows.  As for terminals, I just use URXVT.

I briefly tried a tiling WM, but it wasn't for me.  I kind of using
Tiling in EMACS, so I'm familiar with the concept, but floating with the
ability to tile if necessary I find suits me better.


TMUX allows tiling too, as you know.

When I'm wanting to focus, I find that turning off other apps,
distractions (one way is to simply turn off the GUI), stops the
temptation and bad habit of "alt-tabbing" to other things.  There is
noting else to switch to, so I can read, or write in a focused way.
When I'm writing an article or a speech, this can help.

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That I can understand. But when you are writing an article or a speech,
did you never have the need to look for a definition or an homonym? If
so, how do you manage it if you don't have any way to switch for an
alternative of your opened terminal?
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With tmux is pretty easy, or maybe I just reach for a book (serious!).
But then, I may be in the GUI, so just do it the way you would do.

It could be that I'm just a wierdo that likes to do things the "hard
way" from time to time and that doesn't make sense.