[LAU] light weight, full featured desktop for audio

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Fri Feb 22 08:47:46 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 17:24 -0800, Len Ovens wrote:
> > dwm has both idiosyncrasies and a learning curve, but so too do most
> > "expert" pieces of software. vim and emacs are the canonical examples,
> 
> I never did get anywhere with those two. Ed and Vi mostly, though I think
> I have forgotten most of it. I found joe and used it ever after... it's
> still my main CLI text ed.

I use vi(m), if nothing else should be available. Should I make yet
another joke about emacs ;)? When searching for a MUA I once chose
"wanderlust", because I like the name. It's a mail client for emacs. To
like the name of an application isn't enough to use it forever.

I preferred mcedit, but during setting up a new Arch install I used
nano, because regarding to a font and mcedit's default colors the fonts
are more readable.

Even for the GUI I've given up gedit, while I still install it. From
FreeBSD I wanted to edit a Linux, so I started "gksu gedit", but I got
no write access, then I became root and used another editor and I could
edit Linux. I tend to drop applications that can't be started by root,
but only when running "gksu" and co.

For nano I'm missing highlighting, but I already read that it is
possible to get it for nano too.

Half-OT: I don't get the Xfce4 issues others and I get for Ubuntu
Quantal, for my Arch Linux install.



More information about the Linux-audio-user mailing list