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Linux logo - 'Tux'

Software > Scripting Languages >

(on Wikipedia)

This is the “base language” for shell scripting under Linux.

This is generally known as “the vanilla shell”.

  • Dash is very close to the vanilla shell, and is what I’m probably using.
  • My scripts are hosted in a git repository.



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Software > Window managers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/bbidulock/icewm
https://ice-wm.org/ [ 1 ] was http://www.icewm.org/

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Software > Application launchers >

http://zrajm.org/programs/termmen/ [ 1 ] was www.update.uu.se/~zrajm/programs/termmen/

A console keyboard-based menu for Zsh.

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^ 1 was www.update.uu.se/~zrajm/programs/termmen/

Software >

https://tuomov.iki.fi/software/ [ 1 ] was http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/

A keyboard-oriented window manager.

Clunky in places, and some things were non-obvious and needed some reading.

My hands hurt after using it for a little while, because the default hotkeys are Wrong. Heck, the defaults aren’t just “not for me”, the defaults are bad. Because of poor documentation, it’s too much work for me to figure out how to customize it the way I want.

  • Abandoned – No longer under development, forked into notion

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