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Haikarainen

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Registered: 2012-09-04

Posts: 93

What are some CLI/i3wm-friendly alternatives for websites/applications

Preferrably native clients (if applicable), but minimalized websites are also nice! I am looking for it mainly to get a nice streamlined workflow for my current setup,  as I'm running i3wm and trying to get away from the mouse as much as possible. I do have luakit for websites but some websites are so heavy the F+483 things are starting to be ridicilous. Just to make things clear; For websites I am looking for minimal versions of the websites themselves and still be using luakit (or just a native application that replaces the whole website). Oh, vimstyle keybindings (and the whole :command thing) would be glorious. If it's worth anything I'm also using zsh.

Currently I have mutt as my email client, irssi(with quassel-irssi, although it segfaults so I'm looking for alternatives) for my IRC needs, vim as my texteditor, still looking for a nice RSS reader for static news sites. What I need is something for skype and reddit (perhaps steam as well although I doubt some nice alternative exist). Any other tips are warmly welcome!

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: What are some CLI/i3wm-friendly alternatives for websites/applications

Have you tried something like simplyread?
http://njw.me.uk/simplyread/

Haikarainen

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Registered: 2012-09-04

Posts: 93

Re: What are some CLI/i3wm-friendly alternatives for websites/applications

Have you tried something like simplyread?
http://njw.me.uk/simplyread/

No I haven't, didn't even know that existed. Thanks! Question is if that is addable to luakit somehow. Still new to this browser but from what I've seen so far, everything seems to be possible!

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: What are some CLI/i3wm-friendly alternatives for websites/applications

dwb is a browser similar to luakit and it has a simplyread extension.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: What are some CLI/i3wm-friendly alternatives for websites/applications

FWIW I was also a huge luakit lover - and still am.  But unless I'm missing something, it seems that development has stalled.  The last commit was over a year ago.  There are many bug reports that seem to be left unanswered.

DWB is still very actively developed and maintained.  Portix (the author) quickly replies to comments on the forum thread here for DWB.

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Haikarainen

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Registered: 2012-09-04

Posts: 93

Re: What are some CLI/i3wm-friendly alternatives for websites/applications

FWIW I was also a huge luakit lover - and still am.  But unless I'm missing something, it seems that development has stalled.  The last commit was over a year ago.  There are many bug reports that seem to be left unanswered.

DWB is still very actively developed and maintained.  Portix (the author) quickly replies to comments on the forum thread here for DWB.

Thanks for this. Didn't have a clue.. Just learned luakit though, so it seems like wasted time.. I will give dwb a try, and if I can't stand it I'll just fork luakit (or adopt it).