Minimalism Tips

MiyoLinux · 2021-03-23 21:40:41

If anyone has some tips for those of us who prefer minimalism, post it here!

Here are a couple that I use, because I don't need a bloated video player like mpv or a bloated audio player like CMUS or MOC.

I will leave out any scripts/aliases for simplicity/minimalism in this post, because it's about minimalism...LOLOLOL!!! I'll just give the basics...

1. Play your downloaded videos with ffmpeg/ffplay...

CD into (or open a terminal in) the folder containing the desired video to watch, and enter this command (as an example)...

ffplay the-name-of-your-video.mp4

BAM!!! Your video plays.

2. Play your music folders with ffmpeg/ffplay...

CD into (or open a terminal in) the folder containing the desired music to listen to, and enter this command (as an example)...

for f in *.mp3 ; do ffplay -nodisp -autoexit "$f"; done

BAM!!! Your music plays.

The player will automatically move to the next song and quit when finished playing the files; however, you do have a little bit of...minimalistic control ...

CTRL + C = move to next song
CTRL + Z = stop the player

Have more than one folder in the folder you want to listen to? Enter this command (as an example)...

for f in */*.mp3 ; do ffplay -nodisp -autoexit "$f"; done

BAM!!! It will play each folder. It will move from one folder to the next as each folder finishes.

zapper · 2021-03-23 23:02:53

If you consider moc to be bloated, I wonder what you would think of vlc and smplayer...

Thank you though for the info! Will try it.

MiyoLinux · 2021-03-24 12:22:56

zapper wrote:

If you consider moc to be bloated, I wonder what you would think of vlc and smplayer...

Hahaha! I was just kidding around about the bloat.

Actually, MOC is my preferred audio player...I like it so much that I made my own theme for it.

...and VLC...I always install it. It has too many useful tools in its arsenal not to have it on my system.

dice · 2021-03-24 13:13:16

Instead of bloaty gui text editors use ed.

https://www.gnu.org/software/ed/manual/ed_manual.html

Instead of bloaty password managers use pass

https://www.passwordstore.org/

Head_on_a_Stick · 2021-03-24 15:41:40

dice wrote:

Instead of bloaty gui text editors use ed.

Much as I love ed it is also bloat if you just want to create new files:

tee /path/to/file <<!
blah
blah
blah
!

Or

cat > /path/to/file <<!
blah
blah
blah
!

I prefer tee because it can be prepended with sudo (or doas) if you want to create system files as your normal user. See also https://xkcd.com/378/

And one from me: instead of bloated wallpaper programs to cycle the desktop background every ten minutes just add this one-liner to ~/.xsessionrc:

while true; do feh --bg-fill --randomize /path/to/wallpaper/directory; sleep 600; done &

EDIT: and use mksh instead of bloated bash!

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2021-03-24 15:44:24)

Ogis1975 · 2021-03-24 16:54:22

Thank you so much for your valuable information, MiyoLinux!

Last edited by Ogis1975 (2021-03-24 17:07:26)

manyroads · 2021-03-24 17:22:46

It may be that some of these suggestions are beyond minimalism and solidly into subminimalism.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2021-03-24 17:29:23

I think ffplay is also bloat, at least for music files:

for f in */*.wav; do aplay "$f"; done

greenjeans · 2021-03-24 20:19:44

Dang, some of you guys really like it minimal!

My full-size Vuu-do iso is only around 560 mb, my style of minimalism is to get rid of mountains of useless cruft i'll never use or need. And believe me, there's a LOT! Too much to detail really.

Here's one I use, instead of loading a calendar program, if you just want a simple basic calendar for Tint2 , enter this in the slot for it in the Tint2 config gui:

yad --calendar --undecorated --button=gtk-close:0 --skip-taskbar --borders=5 --posx=-1 --posy=-1 --width=300 --on-top

dice · 2021-03-25 14:41:30

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

dice wrote:
Instead of bloaty gui text editors use ed.
Much as I love ed it is also bloat if you just want to create new files:
tee /path/to/file <<!
blah
blah
blah
!
Or
cat > /path/to/file <<!
blah
blah
blah
!
I prefer tee because it can be prepended with sudo (or doas) if you want to create system files as your normal user. See also https://xkcd.com/378/
And one from me: instead of bloated wallpaper programs to cycle the desktop background every ten minutes just add this one-liner to ~/.xsessionrc:
while true; do feh --bg-fill --randomize /path/to/wallpaper/directory; sleep 600; done &
EDIT: and use mksh instead of bloated bash!

Possibly but ?

~ $ ed
a
blah
blah
blah
.
w blah.txt
10
q

There is also echo.

echo $'blah\nblah\nblah\n' > blah.txt

With ed i couldnt find out how to go recursive like say create a file to ~/Documents, you have to be in the directory first.

Last edited by dice (2021-03-25 15:21:23)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2021-03-25 18:14:20

dice wrote:

Possibly but ?

Bloat!

$ ls -l /bin/ed
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 55368 Jan 19 07:39 /bin/ed
$ ls -l /bin/tee
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39080 Mar  6  2020 /bin/tee
$

MiyoLinux · 2021-03-25 20:44:56

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

I think ffplay is also bloat...

Despite HoaS's aversion to the bloatiness of ffplay, here's another one ...

Don't use a bloated webcam app like guvcview, cheese, etc., just use ffplay...

ffplay -f v4l2 -noborder -video_size 320x240 -i /dev/video0

If you want a titlebar, leave -noborder out of the command.

alphalpha · 2021-03-25 23:30:33

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

I think ffplay is also bloat, at least for music files:
for f in */*.wav; do aplay "$f"; done

i dont think anyone that fell for the bloat meme has is music in *.wav format

MiyoLinux wrote:

Don't use a bloated webcam app like guvcview, cheese, etc., just use ffplay...

saved
here is a similar one for screenshots, but is is not as fast as a real screenshot programm

ffmpeg -f x11grab -r 1 -s "$(xdpyinfo | awk '/dimensions/ {print $2}')" -i :0.0  "$(date +Screenshot-%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S).png"

i recently found svgcleaner, it saved over 7MB in my /usr/share/icons
also if you use rust programms, you can get them significantly smaller if you build them with a new rust version and not the one from the repositry

andyprough · 2021-03-26 02:53:02

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

I think ffplay is also bloat, at least for music files:
for f in */*.wav; do aplay "$f"; done

Ouch!! That's nasty! You should warn someone before sharing commands like that.

steve_v · 2021-03-26 08:30:20

andyprough wrote:

You should warn someone before sharing commands like that.

Or, someone should think before copy-pasting commands from a forum.

greenjeans wrote:

yad --calendar --undecorated --button=gtk-close:0 --skip-taskbar --borders=5 --posx=-1 --posy=-1 --width=300 --on-top

Bloat!

$ cal
     March 2021     
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
    1  2  3  4  5  6
 7  8  9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31

See, I can play this silly game too

Last edited by steve_v (2021-03-26 08:57:44)

dice · 2021-03-26 08:40:06

Doing basic math in the bash shell.

# Subtraction
[me@linux ~]$ expr 1 - 1
0
# Addition
[me@linux ~]$ expr 1 + 1
2
# Assign result to a variable
[me@linux ~]$ myvar=$(expr 1 + 1)
[me@linux ~]$ echo $myvar
2
# Addition with a variable
[me@linux ~]$ expr $myvar + 1
3
# Division
[me@linux ~]$ expr $myvar / 3
0
# Multiplication
[me@linux ~]$ expr $myvar \* 3
6

https://www.shell-tips.com/bash/math-ar … lculation/

Nili · 2021-03-26 10:19:59

3 month calendar with auto close after 60sec.

x-terminal-emulator -title Calendar -geometry 56x10+720+19 -e sh -c 'ncal -3 && sleep 60'

shuffle playing audio/video with mpv

x-terminal-emulator -title mpv--shuffle-playing... -geometry 170x30+0+19 -e mpv --shuffle /music/folder/directory/

set a desktop background with feh, the same code may be used on a wm config to change the image via keyboard/mouse.

feh --randomize --no-fehbg --bg-scale /image/folder/directory/*

Last edited by Nili (2021-03-26 10:21:36)

yeti · 2021-03-26 11:01:12

dice wrote:

Doing basic math in the bash shell.

BASH can do "more readable" than expr:

#!/bin/bash
#
# ###surprise### in bash
#
# 20131116      start.
#

((xmin=-8601))  # int(-2.1*4096)
((xmax=2867))   # int( 0.7*4096)

((ymin=-4915))  # int(-1.2*4096)
((ymax=4915))   # int( 1.2*4096)

((maxiter=30))

((dx=(xmax-xmin)/72))
((dy=(ymax-ymin)/23))

C='.-+co%#'
((lC=${#C}))

for((cy=ymax;cy>=ymin;cy-=dy)) ; do
        for((cx=xmin;cx<=xmax;cx+=dx)) ; do
                ((x=0))
                ((y=0))
                ((rsq=0))
                for((iter=0;iter<maxiter && rsq<=16384;iter++)) ; do
                        ((xn=((x*x-y*y)>>12)+cx))
                        ((yn=((x*y)>>11)+cy))
                        ((x=xn))
                        ((y=yn))
                        ((rsq=(x*x+y*y)>>12))
                done
                ((c=iter%lC))
                echo -n "${C:$c:1}"
        done
        echo
done

yeti · 2021-03-26 11:19:28

AWK... or: Sometimes minimalism looks like luxury.

#!/usr/bin/awk -f
# ncomm-1565083172
BEGIN {
	if(ARGC<2) {
		print "usage: ncomm list_1 ... list_N" >"/dev/stderr"
		exit(1)
	}
	for(i=1;i<ARGC;i++) {
		print s ARGV[i]
		s=s"| "
		while((rc=getline < ARGV[i])>0) { P[$0]++ ; f[$0,i]++ }
		if(rc<0) {
			print "ncomm: read error in file: "ARGV[i] >"/dev/stderr"
			exit(2)
		}
	}
	print s
	c="sort | cut -d/ -f2-"
	for(i in P) {
		printf i"/" | c
		for(n=1;n<ARGC;n++) printf f[i,n]?"+ ":"· " | c
		print i | c
	}
	close(c)
}

E.g.: For hunting differences in packages lists of multiple Devuan installs:

$ ncomm packages.pi1-0 packages.pi2-0 packages.pi3-0 | awk 'NR<5||/init/'
packages.pi1-0
| packages.pi2-0
| | packages.pi3-0
| | | 
· · + init 1.24+devuan1.0 
+ + · init 1.46+devuan1.0 
· · + initramfs-tools 0.120+deb8u2 
+ · · initramfs-tools 0.130 
+ · · initramfs-tools-core 0.130 
+ + + initscripts 2.88dsf-59.3+devuan2 
· · + init-system-helpers 1.24+devuan1.0 
+ + · init-system-helpers 1.46+devuan1.0 
+ + + sysvinit 2.88dsf-59.3+devuan2 
+ + + sysvinit-core 2.88dsf-59.3+devuan2 
· · + sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-59.2+devuan2 
+ + · sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-59.3+devuan2

AWK is omnipresent, even in systems based on busybox (OpenWrt) and often can replace whole spreadsheets. Learning to do do some basic stuff in AWK takes only some few hours and pays back fast.

Last edited by yeti (2021-03-26 11:21:14)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2021-03-26 18:18:30

alphalpha wrote:

i dont think anyone that fell for the bloat meme has is music in *.wav format

CODECs are bloat!

dice wrote:

Doing basic math in the bash shell.

Or use a better shell that can actually handle floating point arithmetic:

% echo $SHELL
/bin/zsh
% echo $((1.0/2.0))
0.5
%

yeti · 2021-03-26 18:39:05

Or use a nice and easy language that was made especially for numbercrunching:

#!/usr/bin/dc -f
_2.1sx0.7sX_1.2sy1.2sY32sM72sW23sH8k[q]sq0sh[lhlH=q0sw[lwlW=qlXlx-lW1-/
lw*lx+sRlYly-lH1-/lh*ly+sI0sr0si0sa0sb0sm[lmlM=qlalb+4<q2lr*li*lI+silalb
-lR+srlm1+smlr2^sali2^sbl0x]s0l0xlm32+Plw1+swl1x]s1l1xAPlh1+shl2x]s2l2x

dice · 2021-03-27 05:30:23

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

dice wrote:
Doing basic math in the bash shell.
Or use a better shell that can actually handle floating point arithmetic:
% echo $SHELL
/bin/zsh
% echo $((1.0/2.0))
0.5
%

That is a drawback to bash and math, but one could always use bc.

~ $ echo "scale=2; 1.0 / 2.0" | bc
.50

yeti · 2021-03-27 07:14:08

dice wrote:

~ $ echo "scale=2; 1.0 / 2.0" | bc
.50

Back to the roots...

$ dc -e '2k 1.0 2.0 / f'
.50

—▷ wikipedia://Bc_(programming_language)#History

Head_on_a_Stick · 2021-03-27 08:17:13

bc is bloat!

Sorry, I'll stop now...

dice · 2021-03-27 13:55:21

yeti wrote:

Or use a nice and easy language that was made especially for numbercrunching:
#!/usr/bin/dc -f
_2.1sx0.7sX_1.2sy1.2sY32sM72sW23sH8k[q]sq0sh[lhlH=q0sw[lwlW=qlXlx-lW1-/
lw*lx+sRlYly-lH1-/lh*ly+sI0sr0si0sa0sb0sm[lmlM=qlalb+4<q2lr*li*lI+silalb
-lR+srlm1+smlr2^sali2^sbl0x]s0l0xlm32+Plw1+swl1x]s1l1xAPlh1+shl2x]s2l2x
http://www.greensmilies.com/smile/smile … in_lol.gif

What shape is that? Looks like a stingray maybe?

Last edited by dice (2021-03-27 13:56:13)

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