Terminal based replacements for common GUI apps

[neurolysis]

Over the last year or so I've found myself increasingly using terminal-based apps over GUI equivalents. By terminal 'apps' I mainly mean programs that do something that usually a GUI based program would handle. I did some searching and couldn't find a thread like this, so I figured I'd make one :)

Here are the top few terminal apps that I use on a daily basis:

irssi - Very extensible and user friendly IRC client
links2 - Good lightweight browser
nano/vim - Text editor, much more capable at handling certain types of text documents than gedit/leafpad, and not messing about with character encodings it doesn't understand
rtorrent - Very fast and flexible torrent client

I'd be interested in hearing some more like these, I'm always interested in hearing about new command line apps :)

[blueturtl]

Here you go:

centerim-utf8 - Use MSN/Jabber/Yahoo/etc. instant messengers from the commandline
moc - Music player that has it all, detachable to the background
wodim, cdrdao - Burn and rip CDs from the commandline
htop - Glorified task management for the console
mc - Two pane file manager that has built in FTP and pull-down menus as well as keyboard shortcuts

p.s. Also cool:

ffmpeg - cut, combine, (re)encode video/audio from the commandline

p.p.s. The coolest of all:

screen - "Window manager" for the console, use all the text mode apps you want ... at the same time!

[zephyrblade]

newsbeuter for rss feeds (though I'm not sure if I could drop google reader just yet ...)

elinks is often my browser of choice

feh for images (elinks plays nice with it too!)

nethack for gaming!

rtorrent used in conjunction with screen is great stuff!


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[neurolysis]

Thanks for the posts so far guys, didn't know quite a few of these :D


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[samalex]

GoogleCL is great -- http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/

Sam

[Zorgoth]

emacs -nw

- the terminal replacement for *all* GUI apps =D

[nothingspecial]

cmus for your music
screen/byobu for you desktop environment

[wkhasintha]

youtube-dl - download youtube videos (duh!)
mplayer

[jerenept]

links (web browser)
nano (text editor)

[Legendary_Bibo]

emacs -nw

- the terminal replacement for *all* GUI apps =D

Draw the Mona Lisa with GIMP. ;)
You do need a GUI for some things, I'm sorry, but there's just no one solution to all.

[mr_hangman]

mutt - email client

[NMFTM]

emacs -nw

- the terminal replacement for *all* GUI apps =D
I've just recently started tinkering with Emacs and I have to say, I really like the macros. The only problem is that when you try to impliment the macros outside of Emacs they'll conflict with other common macros (ctrl+f in Firefox is the find bar but in Emacs is the right arrow) and you'll have to choose one macros set over the other. And no matter which you choose you'll end up loosing some functionality.

Even more troublesome, forums like these which have nothing to do with what OS your using will have keystrokes automatically bound. Like ctrl+b for bolding text while that's the left arrow key in Emacs. Most of the time C-b will move backwards one character. But sometimes it'll bold text.

I hope there is a solution to this. But I've been kind busy (and lazy) lately and haven't looked for one yet.

I really wish that all apps would come with Emacs keybindings just like ctrl+c and ctrl+v is the standardized copy and paste among pretty much all apps and OS's. If I ever became dictator I think I might use my power to force developers to adopt Emacs macros in their apps and have it taught in schools right after basic keyboarding. Shortly there after I would switch my country over to the metric system.

[mr_hangman]

Can anyone login to facebook with one of these terminal based browser?
I tried w3m, links2, elinks and lynx. Looks like none of them is supported.

[limestone]

moc - command line music player
nano - editor
mc - midnight commander (file manager)
elinks - web browser

[red_Marvin]

Can anyone login to facebook with one of these terminal based browser?
I tried w3m, links2, elinks and lynx. Looks like none of them is supported.

They are filtering based on the user agent string, try changing it.

[mr_hangman]

They are filtering based on the user agent string, try changing it.

Thanks Marvin. I got it worked on links2 with the option -fake-user-agent :).


links2 -fake-user-agent Chrome/6.0.472.11 www.facebook.com