Has anyone gotten i3 accessible yet? or is there a better option besides ratpoison, which is great, btw

Linux for blind general discussion blinux-list at redhat.com
Wed Feb 9 20:33:17 UTC 2022


Hi Didier,

I have used mpv in xsessions before, but while I'm in there anyway, I'd 
just use VLC. Nothing wrong with using what you like though.

Warm regards,

Brandt Steenkamp

Sent from the Slint console using Alpine

On Wed, 9 Feb 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 21:18:20 +0100
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Has anyone gotten i3 accessible yet? or is there a better option
>     besides ratpoison, which is great, btw
> 
> Hi,
>
> just a few inline comments below
>
> Le 09/02/2022 à 20:45, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
>> 
>> I, for example, currently have the Rainbowstream Twitter client open in TTY1,
>> mpv playing an internet station in TTY2 and this alpine in TTY3. I still have
>> quite a few TTYs available for use, should I need them.
>
> You can  have more than 6 tty if you want. Just edit as root /etc/inittab and
> after these lines:
>
> c4:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
> c5:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
> c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
>
> append similar ones replacing tty6 with tty7, tty8, tty9, etc.
> Be careful, a small syntax error in this file can prevent Slint to start <smile>
>
> also you can type startx from any tty, currently this will use tty<n+6>
> For instance if you type startx fom tty2 the X session will go in tty8.
>
> You can even start several graphical sessions this way. That the minimalist in
> you will probably will not like...
>
>> This is where a WM such as ratpoison would make your life easier, if, for
>> example, you don't want to use the CLI based mpv media player, you could use VLC
>> in an XSession, or Thunderbird for email in stead of alpine.
>
> You probably know that, but you can as well use mpv as well as vlc in an xsession
>
> Cheers,
> Didier
> --
> Didier Spaier
> Slint maintainer
>
>
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