Topic: Final Terminal/CLI Applications Menu
After all of the collaboration and feedback from the 'CLI App Tree' thread, I've put together a final menu of text-based applications to replace GUI standards. The final menu looks like this:
To add the XML for the 'Terminal' applications menu, just add the following code to your ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml file where ever you'd like the Terminal > menu to display:
<menu id="terminal" label="Terminal">
<item label="Vim - Text Editor">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
xfce4-terminal -x vim
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Midnight Commander - File Manager">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
xfce4-terminal -x mc
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="rtorrent - Bit Torrent Client">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
xfce4-terminal -x rtorrent
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Cmus - Music Player">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
xfce4-terminal -x cmus
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="newsbeuter - Feed Reader">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
xfce4-terminal -x newsbeuter
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="elinks - Web Browser">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
xfce4-terminal -x elinks
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="MUTT - Email Client">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
xfce4-terminal -x mutt
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="irssi - IRC Client">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
xfce4-terminal -x irssi
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="hellanzb - Usenet Client">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
xfce4-terminal -x hellanzb
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="naim - Chat Client">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
xfce4-terminal -x naim
</execute>
</action>
</item>
</menu>To ensure that you've got all of these applications installed, and that they'll run properly from the terminal, just run the following line of code in a terminal:
sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade && sudo aptitude install vim-nox mc rtorrent cmus newsbeuter elinks mutt irssi hellanzb naim screenAdditionally, I'll be drafting a whole README-type file with instructions on how to setup and use all of the apps included in the list. Stay tuned...
Last edited by zopio (2008-12-10 02:48:59)
