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#1 Re: Installation » Minimalist/selective installation? » 2025-05-28 20:05:19
@fsmithred, @rolfie : thanks, I get it ! it was unclear to me but with your insights I understand better.
#2 Re: Installation » Minimalist/selective installation? » 2025-05-28 17:10:55
Like stopAI, I don't understand why you want a small CLI core with a bloated KDE. I use dwm as my window manager, which is really lightweight and efficient. Ultra minimalist, it takes a bit of time to master. But if you want to offer a simple and efficient window manager to your family, jwm is really efficient and minimalist. Jwm is used in Puppy Linux. Devuan with jwm might be a good minimalist window manager for you.
#3 Re: Freedom Hacks » ALSA without PulseAudio and PipeWire » 2025-05-20 17:37:44
I will say thank you to Sergei Petrov but you helped me a lot so I thank you both 
#4 Re: Freedom Hacks » ALSA without PulseAudio and PipeWire » 2025-05-19 12:22:49
@igorzwx > I was only using Pulsaudio and with your advice I tried and managed to configure Alsa correctly.
aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wavworks fine !
Then I tried a stupid
aplay -t ogg ~/MyStupidSound.ogg and the sound was transformed into a WAV sound, horrible. I realized that aplay couldn't play Ogg/Vorbis files 
and I removed pulseaudio !
Well I want to thank you, the sound is really good, everything works perfectly !
#5 Re: Packaging for Devuan » with apt-cacher-ng, not able to get 32-bit library packages » 2025-05-04 10:04:34
Computers with x86 as CPU architecture family have sometimes i586 processors, but in 32 bits linux packages, only i386 exists.
You have to delete i586 foreign architecture and it will work.
Indeed, in packages,"i386" stands for all x86 CPU architectures (32 bits).
#6 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » openoffice writer and impress constantly crash Xorg » 2025-04-30 14:37:37
The better way is to uninstall OpenOffice to install LibreOffice instead, more efficient, more stable, with more compatibiliy.
OpenOffice is a bad software which must be forgotten.
#7 Re: Off-topic » Lightweight system without (too) bloated software » 2025-04-29 19:40:27
Well whenever it's possible I prefer a full cli software, very minimalist and operated at 100%, than another under X, because I can integrate them into scripts. They are often smaller and use less memory. I can use them without my mouse and so I can use my keyboard only, which is more relaxing than constantly moving the mouse, I can do things faster, it's more efficient and more relevant. Very often the programs are more ergonomic.
That's why I prefer dwm than gnome or kde or even mate. I like them all, they are great but I much prefer dwm for productivity
#8 Re: Off-topic » Lightweight system without (too) bloated software » 2025-04-22 21:35:29
@igorzwx : I installed this https://mirageiv.sourceforge.net/download.html. You're right, the devuan package needs something to work clean.
@greenjeans : I'm using LF (https://github.com/gokcehan/lf), and I recommend it instead of ranger. Ranger is too slow. I've just installed gpicview and it's very fast, I love it !
@EDX-0 : nsxiv is my current image viewer. Neofetch was my old tool, screenfetch seems smaller and faster but it's played out with the thickness of a line, both are very good.
You made me discover copyq ! thanks a lot, a great tool ! Thank you for sharing.
One of my friends send me a link, a great job made by Mayfrost : https://github.com/mayfrost/guides/blob … NATIVES.md
The web page is very old and deserves to be refreshed but it is exactly what I wanted to know. I would like to do same page with current programs
#9 Re: Off-topic » Lightweight system without (too) bloated software » 2025-04-21 09:41:47
@delgado : mc for Midnight Commander is interesting, very light. I don't know if it's highly configurable or not, I just try it out of the box.
doublecmd is very clean, I do like this graphic tool. Flameshot doesn't fit well with dwm, the icon doesn't appear on the screen to take a screenshot.
@thym : Mirage is very light and good, able to take screenshots as well. Moc is great, especially with moc-ffmpeg-plugin and dmenu_mocp (https://github.com/pscha/dmenu_mocp?tab=readme-ov-file), ffmpeg as well. Oh yeah ! Qalc is oerfect for simple calculation
Thanks !
#10 Re: Off-topic » Lightweight system without (too) bloated software » 2025-04-20 18:12:30
@Camtaf : gnumeric is very useful to read .ods documents, you're right. Following your recommendation, I tried feh and I think it will be a perfect program to use within shell scripts.
@greenjeans : Scrot was my older screenshot program, I liked it a lot but import is doing the job and is sufficient for my personal use. Scrot is still installed on my computer
Thanks for your help !
#11 Off-topic » Lightweight system without (too) bloated software » 2025-04-20 13:23:14
- Khylsdrak
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Hi,
I like CLI programs and I'm using Devuan + dwm + dmenu. I have no problem using graphics programs if necessary. Some programs have less dependencies, some have a lot of tools like imagemagick. I want to keep my system fully functional. Here are my everyday tools :
File manager : lf / mc / doublecmd
Ftp client : filezilla
Web browser : brave browser / firefox
Music player & video player : ffplay / vlc / moc + moc-ffmpeg-plugin +dmenu_mocp
Adress book : abook
Spreadsheets : sc-im / gnumeric
Emails : neomutt
Text editor : neovim
Word processor : abiword
Personal organizer : calcurse
Image viewer : nsxiv and display (imageMagick) / feh / mirage
Image editing : imagemagick
Screenshots : import (imagemagick) / scrot
System monitor : htop
Screenshot information : screenfetch
Hardware information : util-linux(dmesg, lsblk)
Video editing : ffmpeg
Calculations : calc qcalc
Some good links :
Thanks to Mayfrost : https://github.com/mayfrost/guides/blob … NATIVES.md
Cat -v : https://harmful.cat-v.org/software/
Do you have any other recommendations? (I will mention them in darkblue)
#12 Re: Off-topic » Show your desktop (rebooted) » 2025-04-19 16:21:48
Devuan with Dwm as window manager
On the left side, there is LF with thumbnails and on the right side from top to bottom :
- import to make the screenshot
- neomutt
- another thumbnail from ffplay playing the song I was listening ("Flying" from Moon)
- another LF
- the song with ffplay
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