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So, what is a CLI user to do? Why, get a Window Manager (wm) that is meant for us!
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So, what is a CLI user to do? Why, get a Window Manager (wm) that is meant for us!
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The features I look for include small footprint and full keyboard integration. The current one I use is wmi-10, but it is no longer under active development. The group working on it has moved to on to [wmii](https://www.wmi.de/wmii), but I do not like the changes, so I am off looking for a new one to use.
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The features I look for include small footprint and full keyboard integration. The current one I use is wmi-10, but it is no longer under active development. The group working on it has moved to on to [wmii](https://github.com/0intro/wmii), but I do not like the changes, so I am off looking for a new one to use.
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From time to time, I will post how my search is going so you can see what is out there.
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From time to time, I will post how my search is going so you can see what is out there.
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* [GNU Screen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Screen)
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* [GNU Screen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Screen)
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* [GNU Screen - Jonathan McPherson](https://jmcpherson.org/screen.html)
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* [GNU Screen - Jonathan McPherson](https://jmcpherson.org/screen.html)
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* [Remote terminal session management using screen](https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/screen/) How to use screen to detach from and share terminal sessions
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* [Remote terminal session management using screen](https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/screen/) How to use screen to detach from and share terminal sessions
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* [An Introduction to Screen](https://nathan.chantrell.net/linux/an-introduction-to-screen/)
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* [screen - The Terminal Multiplexer](https://www.bangmoney.org/presentations/screen.html) Power Sessions with Screen
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* [screen - The Terminal Multiplexer](https://www.bangmoney.org/presentations/screen.html) Power Sessions with Screen
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All these are things which are very good for Linux users. The biggest drawback to all this? The need for a user-space program to manage the non-hardwired connections. Which means that in order to be able to have any network running besides the good old twisted-pair copper, you have to have a little applet running as you, and it has to have a systray somewhere to display. Which means you have to be a) logged into the system and b) you have to be running a window manager which supports having a system tray. Now, Fedora gives you lots of choices for the second part now days. You have [Gnome](https://www.gnome.org), [KDE](https://www.kde.org), [XFCE](https://www.xfce.org), and LXDE (was at lxde.sf.net). All are perfectly usable window managers. But, they still require you to be logged in to X. And, [I do not use any of them](links://slug/window-managers/).
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All these are things which are very good for Linux users. The biggest drawback to all this? The need for a user-space program to manage the non-hardwired connections. Which means that in order to be able to have any network running besides the good old twisted-pair copper, you have to have a little applet running as you, and it has to have a systray somewhere to display. Which means you have to be a) logged into the system and b) you have to be running a window manager which supports having a system tray. Now, Fedora gives you lots of choices for the second part now days. You have [Gnome](https://www.gnome.org), [KDE](https://www.kde.org), [XFCE](https://www.xfce.org), and LXDE (was at lxde.sf.net). All are perfectly usable window managers. But, they still require you to be logged in to X. And, [I do not use any of them](links://slug/window-managers/).
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So, what is a cli-loving Fedora user to do? Well, there is this great program called [wifiroamd](https://www.tummy.com/Community/software/wifiroamd/). It will handle the same basic tasks that NetworkManager handles. It will automatically configure your wifi interface and connect to the wifi networks or the locate hardwired NIC if it cannot. You can configure it to run scripts per connection, so for example, you can change your firewall rules for different networks (shields down at home or the office, but up full at the coffee house), or you could bring up your VPN connection when you start using a given wireless network. One tip I picked up from the author was that if you have multiple AP's in range, an you want to select once AP over the other, is under the */etc/wifiroamd/connections* directory, simply link the AP info you do not want to the one you want:
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So, what is a cli-loving Fedora user to do? Well, there is this great program called wifiroamd. It will handle the same basic tasks that NetworkManager handles. It will automatically configure your wifi interface and connect to the wifi networks or the locate hardwired NIC if it cannot. You can configure it to run scripts per connection, so for example, you can change your firewall rules for different networks (shields down at home or the office, but up full at the coffee house), or you could bring up your VPN connection when you start using a given wireless network. One tip I picked up from the author was that if you have multiple AP's in range, an you want to select once AP over the other, is under the */etc/wifiroamd/connections* directory, simply link the AP info you do not want to the one you want:
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So, I am starting a new personal project at the house, and I need a new
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So, I am starting a new personal project at the house, and I need a new server. As I was wanting to learn more about the **BSD**, I started looking around at things like [FreeBSD](https://www.freebsd.org), [NetBSD](https://www.netBSD.org), or [OpenBSD](https://www.openbsd.org).
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Since there was a security part, I started with **OpenBSD**. One of the things I noticed quickly while doing my research is that while there is a lot of documentation, they do not really seem to care about making it easy for new folks to join the project, nor are the trying to support new-fangled hardware, like bootable USB drives. This strikes me odd, as FreeBSD has [instructions (see 2.3.5)](https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-pre.html).
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My updates have been a bit slow due to craziness at work. I am taking a trip, and the departure date has been reset many times. I am on my 5th set of airline tickets. With things settled, I need to decide if I am going to bring the second laptop (the R180) with me or not. Weight issues and all.
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My updates have been a bit slow due to craziness at work. I am taking a trip, and the departure date has been reset many times. I am on my 5th set of airline tickets. With things settled, I need to decide if I am going to bring the second laptop (the R180) with me or not. Weight issues and all.
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How do I think this is going? Well, the two major issues I thought I would have going in, WiFi and Photo editing/management, are for the most part solved. Can I use this for my daily non-work driver? Yes. Can I use it for my work daily driver? Maybe. I have set up a few jails on the FreeNAS box (btsync, dns/dhcp, [taskwarrior's taskd](https://gitpitch.com/GothenburgBitFactory/taskserver-setup#/), and Plex), and they are mainly working well together (the Plex will not play nice with btsync, yet), but I need to figure out a bit more, and set it up as a target to backup my laptop's ZFS snapshots.
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How do I think this is going? Well, the two major issues I thought I would have going in, WiFi and Photo editing/management, are for the most part solved. Can I use this for my daily non-work driver? Yes. Can I use it for my work daily driver? Maybe. I have set up a few jails on the FreeNAS box (btsync, dns/dhcp, [taskwarrior's taskd](https://gothenburgbitfactory.github.io/taskserver-setup/), and Plex), and they are mainly working well together (the Plex will not play nice with btsync, yet), but I need to figure out a bit more, and set it up as a target to backup my laptop's ZFS snapshots.
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Well, after 4 years (almost to the day), it is time for me to say good-bye to HP. The team I worked on is a great team who really know their stuff. However, I am a geek, and I want to be doing things with tech, and not talking about tech, and for the most part, talking is all I have been doing. I have learned a lot and was given a chance to do some [traveling \<travels\>]{role="doc"} which I do not think I would have been able to do.
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So, where am I going? Well, until after I start and get on-boarded, I am not sure how much I can say. It is a financial company based in Houston, so I will not be moving the crew, just changing the direction I commute back to into the sun again.
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The one I bought has an Intel Celeron Processor 3965Y CPU with 8GB RAM and 128GB of storage. The main reason I bought it was to run Linux on it as a travel laptop. For that reason, I installed [Ubuntu Mate 19.04](https://ubuntu-mate.org/umpc/) on it and then installed the [I3 window manager](https://www.i3wm.org) and my normal load of mainly console-based apps. I have a USB-C hub with HDMI which works very well.
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The one I bought has an Intel Celeron Processor 3965Y CPU with 8GB RAM and 128GB of storage. The main reason I bought it was to run Linux on it as a travel laptop. For that reason, I installed [Ubuntu Mate 19.04](https://ubuntu-mate.org/) on it and then installed the [I3 window manager](https://www.i3wm.org) and my normal load of mainly console-based apps. I have a USB-C hub with HDMI which works very well.
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So, how does it work for me? Well, I can run most of a day on a charge, only using it to check emails and the odd web page. I have never actually run the battery down. The optical mouse takes a bit of getting used to, but works fairly well, along with the touch-screen. The keyboard is laid out very oddly to make it fit into the space of the shell, but it will work once you get used to it. And the WiFi has yet to let me down. For the primary role of a travel laptop and one that I take into work to keep an eye on non-work things, it works great.
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So, how does it work for me? Well, I can run most of a day on a charge, only using it to check emails and the odd web page. I have never actually run the battery down. The optical mouse takes a bit of getting used to, but works fairly well, along with the touch-screen. The keyboard is laid out very oddly to make it fit into the space of the shell, but it will work once you get used to it. And the WiFi has yet to let me down. For the primary role of a travel laptop and one that I take into work to keep an eye on non-work things, it works great.
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Whilst I am not pleased to find out the IPFire team's thoughts on [wireguard](https://blog.ipfire.org/post/why-not-wireguard), I respect their decision on their project. Given that I am currently running wireguard at home (I have not had a chance to test it outside yet due to the [plague](/tags/plague/)) I was hoping they would support it. As if the fact I could not get pfSense booting was not reason enough, the pfSense project announced that they were dropping support for wireguard for the foreseeable future.
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I had a chance to drive into town for a family thing, and went and visited Houston's copy of [Broken Obelisk by Barnett Newman](http://www.barnettnewman.com/broken-obelisk/). I did not know that there are four copies of this sculpture.
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