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I don't know which one Debian uses at boot but you can press ctrl+alt+f1, f2, f3 etc. to get to the others.<br /><br /> Also you can stop the running script with ctrl+c.<div class="edit_text">EDITED: 29 Jan 2016 11:44 by X3N0PH0N</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.80&return_msg=41672.80" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.80"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_81"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_81"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Manthorp<span class="message_time">29 Jan 2016 11:46</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Jan 2016 11:49"></span></span> <span class="message_count">81 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.81">41672.81</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.79">41672.79</a></div> <div class="message_body"> *\o/* <span style="font-size:12.8px;">*\o/* *\o/* *\o/* *\o/* *\o/* <span class="emoticon e_pinochio" title="(imarealboy)"><span class="e__">(imarealboy)</span></span> <span class="emoticon e_hug" title="(hug)"><span class="e__">(hug)</span></span> <br /><br /> Thanks Xen, thanks Ant!!!</span></div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.81&return_msg=41672.80" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.81"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_82"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_82"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">29 Jan 2016 11:49</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Manthorp <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Jan 2016 15:39"></span></span> <span class="message_count">82 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.82">41672.82</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.80#a41672_81" target="_self">41672.81</a></div> <div class="message_body"> <span class="emoticon e_cheering" title="(cheer)"><span class="e__">(cheer)</span></span></div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.82&return_msg=41672.80" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.82"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_83"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_83"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">29 Jan 2016 12:10</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Manthorp <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Jan 2016 15:39"></span></span> <span class="message_count">83 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.83">41672.83</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.80#a41672_81" target="_self">41672.81</a></div> <div class="message_body"> I'm sure you won't want to touch this now for a while *but*...<br /><br /> You're running it on a virtual terminal now which is all good and that but you don't have much control over how it looks. You can set the font (from a very limited range of pixel fonts) and that's about it.<br /><br /> *If* you booted to a window manager and ran your script in a terminal within that you'd then be able to choose a nicer font (a ttf font), set up the colours and also (maybe more importantly) support any emoji people might use in their tweets (by installing symbola, should be in the repos) which can look quite nice on the terminal, <a href="http://i.imgur.com/DWfKTbH.png">like so</a>.<br /><br /> I'd be happy to write you a config for i3 which launches a terminal fullscreen and runs your script.<br /><br /> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.83&return_msg=41672.80" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.83"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_84"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_84"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: koswix<span class="message_time">29 Jan 2016 12:16</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Jan 2016 12:23"></span></span> <span class="message_count">84 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.84">41672.84</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.80#a41672_83" target="_self">41672.83</a></div> <div class="message_body"> What that font?</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.84&return_msg=41672.80" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.84"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_85"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_85"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">29 Jan 2016 12:25</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: koswix <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Jan 2016 12:30"></span></span> <span class="message_count">85 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.85">41672.85</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.80#a41672_84" target="_self">41672.84</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Ubuntu Mono. I really like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28typeface%29">Ubuntu fonts</a>.<br /><br /> (Tangentially related, Red Hat <a href="http://overpassfont.org/">just released a libre font</a> which is also rather nice)<div class="edit_text">EDITED: 29 Jan 2016 12:32 by X3N0PH0N</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.85&return_msg=41672.80" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.85"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_86"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_86"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Manthorp<span class="message_time">29 Jan 2016 21:49</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Jan 2016 22:48"></span></span> <span class="message_count">86 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.86">41672.86</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.80#a41672_83" target="_self">41672.83</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Firstly, damn blast shit and bugger: it's suddenly stopped booting into the application. It autologs-in ok, but then stops on the attached error message. Have you any thoughts or sage advice?<br /><br /> (Edit: mended, thank fuckery. I reinstalled twit)<br /><br /><br /> Secondly, I rather like the minimal interface, but I agree that a little low-key tweaking as per your illustration would improve the legibility, so I think I'm up for trying it<div class="edit_text">EDITED: 29 Jan 2016 23:30 by MANTHORP</div> </div> <div class="message_attachments"> <span>Attachments:</span> <ul> <li><span class="image attach"></span><a href="get_attachment.php?webtag=DEFAULT&hash=dc3d4975a2fc0e067a424314178a99a5&filename=Bastard Pi.jpg" target="_blank">Bastard Pi.jpg</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.86&return_msg=41672.80" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.86"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_87"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_87"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">29 Jan 2016 23:32</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Manthorp <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 30 Jan 2016 08:15"></span></span> <span class="message_count">87 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.87">41672.87</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.80#a41672_86" target="_self">41672.86</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Looks like Gzip doesn't like what it's getting from Twitter. Is it persistently doing this or is it a one off? Also check you're actually connected to the net.<br /><br /> (I'll get the script and test it here. In the meantime I'll make another post with instructions as to how to launch this all in a WM)<br /> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.87&return_msg=41672.80" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.87"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_88"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_88"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">30 Jan 2016 01:01</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Manthorp <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 30 Jan 2016 08:15"></span></span> <span class="message_count">88 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.88">41672.88</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.80#a41672_86" target="_self">41672.86</a></div> <div class="message_body"> First you need to edit /etc/profile and comment out that line you added (put a # at the start of the line) since we don't want it auto-running that script on the login terminal any more.<br /><br /> Now install i3 and the stuff needed to make it usable.<br /> <div class="quotetext"><strong>Code:</strong> </div> <pre class="code"> sudo apt-get install xorg xinit i3 i3status dmenu</pre> <br /><br /><br /> I *think* that'll pull in all the needed dependencies on Debian.<br /><br /> Now make/edit ~/.bash_profile to start X automatically:<br /> <div class="quotetext"><strong>Code:</strong> </div> <pre class="code"> nano ~/.bash_profile</pre> <br /><br /><br /> And add this at the bottom (if the file is empty just add this):<br /> <div class="quotetext"><strong>Code:</strong> </div> <pre class="code"> [[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -le 3 ]] && startx</pre> <br /><br /><br /> (This assumes that you're logging in on VT3 or lower, if you're not we'll cross that bridge then)<br /><br /> Now make/edit ~/.xinitrc to make it start i3 when X starts:<br /> <div class="quotetext"><strong>Code:</strong> </div> <pre class="code"> nano ~/.xinitrc</pre> <br /><br /><br /> And add this at the bottom:<br /> <div class="quotetext"><strong>Code:</strong> </div> <pre class="code"> exec i3</pre> <br /><br /> Now make the i3 config file:<br /> <div class="quotetext"><strong>Code:</strong> </div> <pre class="code"> nano ~/.i3/config</pre> <br /> And put the following in it:<br /> <div class="quotetext"><strong>Code:</strong> </div> <pre class="code"> set $mod Mod4 # start a terminal bindsym $mod+Return exec xfce4-terminal --hide-menubar # kill focused window bindsym $mod+Shift+q kill # start dmenu (a program launcher) bindsym $mod+d exec --no-startup-id dmenu_run # exit i3 (logs you out of your X session) bindsym $mod+Shift+e exec "i3-nagbar -t warning -m 'You pressed the exit shortcut. Do you really want to exit i3? This will end your X session.' -b 'Yes, exit i3' 'i3-msg exit'" new_window 1pixel hide_edge_borders both exec --no-startup-id xset -dpms;xset s off exec --no-startup-id xfce4-terminal -e "node /path/to/index.js" --hide-menubar --hold</pre> <br /> Reboot and it *should* work. The i3 bar shouldn't show, but if it does let me know and I'll sort it (I'm using a more recent i3 than Debian has and the config has changed so it's tricky to test).<br /><br /> That's a very minimal config. All you can do is close windows (win+shift+q), open a terminal (win+enter) and also launch programs by pressing win+d and then typing their name. To exit i3 press win+shift+e.<br /><br /><br /> <div class="edit_text">EDITED: 30 Jan 2016 01:02 by X3N0PH0N</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.88&return_msg=41672.80" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.88"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_89"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_89"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Manthorp<span class="message_time">30 Jan 2016 08:17</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 30 Jan 2016 10:02"></span></span> <span class="message_count">89 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.89">41672.89</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.80#a41672_88" target="_self">41672.88</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Wow! Thanks Xen. I have to make the house a little less squalid for guests now, but I'll try this as soon as I can.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.89&return_msg=41672.80" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.89"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="message_page_footer"> <ul> <li class="right_col"><form accept-charset="utf-8" method="get" action="lmessages.php" target="_self"><input type="hidden" name="webtag" id="webtag" class="bhinputtext" value="DEFAULT" dir="ltr" /><input type="hidden" name="msg" id="msg" class="bhinputtext" value="41672.90" dir="ltr" /><input type="submit" name="submit" id="keep_reading" value="Keep reading…" class="button" /></form></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body>