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Specs
OS: Manjaro
Kernel: 4.19.102-1-MANJARO (x86_64)
WM: i3-gaps
screen res: 1920 × 1080 px
X terminal: xfce4-terminal
X terminal app: asciiquarium
additional stuff: vlc, Gimp …

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What’s this all about …
Intermezzo from my soon closing Somnambul project : This is a screenshot of one of my favorite terminal applications when being idle at the desktop: the Perl script asciiquarium invoking colorful nice animations made of letters. It can be switched to full screen via the hotkey + , hiding the bottom workspace bar, and looks far better in action than in a still!

In the name of anti-obsolescence I moved my main computer from a server bolide to another oldtimer, a second hand Intel dual core Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo micro tower with 4 GB RAM from 2008, which was said to be silent, “green” and popular for office work. so far I can approve that for daily tasks and imge editing, just video streaming occasionally lags at high resolutions.

Yes, and it’s currently not Arch Linux itself but the popular Arch derivate Manjaro, which comes also as rolling release and got the package manager pacman (I don’t need the extra ones), while being able to use both (most) official Arch packages as well as Arch User Repo stuff and the wiki resources.

Further, I was curious about the window manager i3, since tiling is essential for me – in case of turning to (pure) wayland with sway one day. So in last fall I was lucky to grab the Manjaro community i3 edition; though it works out of the box for me, it’s meanwhile discontinued. Almost everything I left pretty default this time, including desktop theme and (solarized?) color scheme, and no extra transparency. – What sucks a bit is that I can’t go into console, and betimes I do miss some conveniences of my former tiler XMonad, since I am used to that. I mean, besides, it’s quite OK. Though soon, in the twilight of Xorg, I am going to switch back. Also as a proud Arch user for at least twelve years, instead of bothering with “Manjaro Architect” I still rather prefer the original distro!

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Links and References
asciiquarium by Kirk Baucom, at github: [link]

asciiquarium in the AUR: [link]

i3 on Wikipedia: [link]

i3 homepage: [link]

i3 in the ArchWiki: [link]

Manjaro homepage: [link]

Manjaro on distrowatch.com: [link]

Manjaro Linux on Wikipedia: [link]

(former) Manjaro i3 community edition ISO image: [dead link]

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Comments welcome!

Description

Contents
Specs

What’s this all about …

Links and References

Specs
OS: Manjaro
Kernel: 4.19.102-1-MANJARO (x86_64)
WM: i3-gaps
screen res: 1920 × 1080 px
X terminal: xfce4-terminal
X terminal app: asciiquarium
additional stuff: vlc, Gimp …

          [ ^ ]     [ Contents ]

What’s this all about …
Intermezzo from my soon closing Somnambul project : This is a screenshot of one of my favorite terminal applications when being idle at the desktop: the Perl script asciiquarium invoking colorful nice animations made of letters. It can be switched to full screen via the hotkey + , hiding the bottom workspace bar, and looks far better in action than in a still!

In the name of anti-obsolescence I moved my main computer from a server bolide to another oldtimer, a second hand Intel dual core Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo micro tower with 4 GB RAM from 2008, which was said to be silent, “green” and popular for office work. so far I can approve that for daily tasks and imge editing, just video streaming occasionally lags at high resolutions.

Yes, and it’s currently not Arch Linux itself but the popular Arch derivate Manjaro, which comes also as rolling release and got the package manager pacman (I don’t need the extra ones), while being able to use both (most) official Arch packages as well as Arch User Repo stuff and the wiki resources.

Further, I was curious about the window manager i3, since tiling is essential for me – in case of turning to (pure) wayland with sway one day. So in last fall I was lucky to grab the Manjaro community i3 edition; though it works out of the box for me, it’s meanwhile discontinued. Almost everything I left pretty default this time, including desktop theme and (solarized?) color scheme, and no extra transparency. – What sucks a bit is that I can’t go into console, and betimes I do miss some conveniences of my former tiler XMonad, since I am used to that. I mean, besides, it’s quite OK. Though soon, in the twilight of Xorg, I am going to switch back. Also as a proud Arch user for at least twelve years, instead of bothering with “Manjaro Architect” I still rather prefer the original distro!

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Links and References
asciiquarium by Kirk Baucom, at github: [link]

asciiquarium in the AUR: [link]

i3 on Wikipedia: [link]

i3 homepage: [link]

i3 in the ArchWiki: [link]

Manjaro homepage: [link]

Manjaro on distrowatch.com: [link]

Manjaro Linux on Wikipedia: [link]

(former) Manjaro i3 community edition ISO image: [dead link]

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.: ⟨ previous deviation :: { Crispy Arch Linux Pr0n } :: next deviation ⟩ :.

Comments welcome!