FreeBSD on only TTY as a Daily Driver

kpedersen said:
Autologin if you want it entirely automatic. (Did you get that issue in the thread resolved? I recall it being a little fiddly)

And then in your .profile, you will want something like:

Code: 
if [ "$(tty)" = "/dev/ttyv0" ]; then
  exec tmux
fi

(There are tmux arguments that attach to an existing one if running or starting a new one if not but I don't have my old scripts on me to check currently)

I find the following steps work quite well for tmux autostart
  1. start tmux in background
  2. start irssi in tmux
  3. start mutt in tmux
  4. attach to tmux
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I'm still finding my way around tmux, I wish I had come across it ten years ago!

One thing I've found, and I don't if it's just me, but when I run under Xterm I can switch between windows using C-> or C-< where
as in text mode it's C-b > or C-b < . (I actually use q as my prefix.)

I'm still looking for a script which will start three programs, but prog2 and prog3 should be in a vertically split window.

It sounds simple enough but getting this working has escaped me so far.

In addition I'm not sure if this can be achieved via tmux.conf or via a separate script.
 
vermaden said:
They have FreeBSD binaries here:
- https://github.com/alejandroqh/term39

Here for latest version:
- https://github.com/alejandroqh/term.../term39-1.1.0-freebsd-64bit-x86-binary.tar.gz
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Note: You will definitely want the binary. Term39 has a 1911 lines worth of dependencies with over 50 of them being for FreeBSD.

(For comparison, Tmux has 1 dependency (libevent))

balanga said:
I'm still finding my way around tmux, I wish I had come across it ten years ago!

One thing I've found, and I don't if it's just me, but when I run under Xterm I can switch between windows using C-> or C-< where
as in text mode it's C-b > or C-b < . (I actually use q as my prefix.)
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I do just use <C-b>1, <C-b>2, etc to change between windows. Now I think about it, it isn't ideal for a keypress but its the default so I don't need to tweak things too much.
balanga said:
In addition I'm not sure if this can be achieved via tmux.conf or via a separate script.
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So many tmux options (and I don't split windows because my laptops tend to have tiny screens) but I believe:

$ tmux new-session -A is what you want to create a new session only if one doesn't already exist. -d is used to keep it in background for now.

But for your case, I would put it in a shell script (or .profile with the final tmux command as exec. So something like:

Code: 
$ tmux new-session -Ad
$ tmux new-window irssi
$ tmux new-window mutt
$ exec tmux attach

If this works, I am sure there is an argument that can be passed with/in-place of new-window to split instead (looks to be split-window).
 
If you search customized themes for vt check this repository there are lot of them and they are FreeBSD specific:
github.com

iTerm2-Color-Schemes/freebsd_vt at master · mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes

Over 425 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2. Includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTer...
github.com github.com

If one wants a fancy sysutils/tmux alternative there is sysutils/zellij, it's not bad, keybindings are more intuitive than tmux . This program won't make everyone happy for sure but it worth the try.
 
I just wondered what most text mode users use as their shell....

I use sh, but feel that I need to change because of my excessive use of mc. I don't really want to use bash. What do most people here use?
 
"root" and normal users /bin/csh. I want the shell prompt to be color coded so that I can see at a glance what kind of user account I am currently logged in from which I am executing commands. "root" red colored, normal users green.

/bin/sh doesn't allow prompt color coding (that I know of).

Experimental zsh(1) for normal users.
 
  • bash-static (though I think the package is broken again and pulls in extra cruft).
  • oksh-static
I actually prefer bash but have moved away from it on most of my machines because I imagine Linux will break it soon. Hook up to systemd or enforce intellisense or something stupid.
 
T-Daemon said:
/bin/sh doesn't allow prompt color coding (that I know of)
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I've struggled with this as well (under 13.5-RELEASE at least). However, it looks like it might work under 15.0 (maybe 14.3 as well, I haven't tried yet). Watch the following video where the poster colourises his prompt under /bin/sh using his ~/.shrc. I haven't checked the sh source code for recent changes but I'm assuming that improvements to /bin/sh are being made with each release. Especially as /bin/sh looks like it's going to eventually be made the default shell.
 
Ironically I run default sh for root and user 🫡

I might - close your eyes do not read past this point <- - get Rust and nushell to running to see what it does
 
tcsh for root and user.
sh can use colors in prompt (testested in 15.0-RELEASE, maybe it should works in 14.x-RELEASE too) but do not manage well multiline prompt
 
fraxamo said:
I've struggled with this as well (under 13.5-RELEASE at least). However, it looks like it might work under 15.0 (maybe 14.3 as well, I haven't tried yet). Watch the following video where the poster colourises his prompt under /bin/sh using his ~/.shrc. I haven't checked the sh source code for recent changes but I'm assuming that improvements to /bin/sh are being made with each release. Especially as /bin/sh looks like it's going to eventually be made the default shell.
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I had forgotten that Bourne shells can be color coded (as of 14.0). An internet search led to

amr

Shell Thread 'The bourne shell prompt color'

I am using bourne shell, and I wonder how to color the shell prompt.
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sidetone

Post in thread 'Colorize your BSD shell'

Colorizing SH as of FreeBSD 14.0
For sh(1) available as of FreeBSD 14.0. /usr/local/etc/profile can be used for system wide Bourne shell settings, that aren't overriden by local files. I might use an if-then statement, for when settings are similar with small differences for different users here. The typical place for customization and for overriding system wide settings is ~/.shrc and/or ~/.profile. I avoid using /etc/profile for custom settings, as that can be overriden by updates.

To colorize ls output:
Code: 
export CLICOLOR="YES" # any value...
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Hello everyone, hope everyone is doing well. After a month of using FreeBSD only in TTY, I reached some problems sometimes:

Handling SSH/GPG keys sometimes is difficult; audio and video are off the scope; *it is* possible, but solving this is "fragile." Sometimes you will have problems; reading hacker news (ycombinator) is fine to get some tech/politics updates if you are into this, reading books is mostly afful. Epub works if you set everything up correctly using a conversion to some txt-based (if the epub has images, it will probably crash).

Otherwise, I'm very happy to announce that if you *are* in a case where you can choose and *want* to use only tty, you can. I have seen some questions about the KDE/Gnome/XFCE and the future of FreeBSD as a desktop OS, but that's for another thread. I also have seen all sorts of useful software and configurations here that I wouldn't be able to thank everyone for. Probably in the middle of the year I will return with a more complete description of my experience and tips. See you all!
 
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