Hye All,

I've recently switched to the console only, and removed the GUI from my AA1. Now i wanted to share some stuff with you about command based apps.

I will be covering the following apps in a series:
Elinks/Links - Web Browser
Moc - Music Player
Snownews - RSS Reader
Vim - Text Editor
Cone - Email Client
Screen - Window manager for Console

I'll just do some basic stuff, you can find more about the apps by typing: man [app] (man vim).

In the first part I'll cover Elinks/Links2 and Moc.

Elinks/Links

(sudo apt-get install elinks links2).

I like these two browsers, elinks because of its good rendering capabilities and tabbing fratures, and links2 because of the graphic mode on the framebuffer. (Note: for that you'll have to enable the framebuffer, which i will cover in a later tutorial.)
Fire up elinks to start with google:
$ elinks google.nl
Now it wil start to load google. If it is loaded you'll see a text-only google. You can navigate on the page by using the UP and DOWN arrows. eLinks will go to the next link, and if there is no link it will go down 1 page. You can also do that by pressing PG-UP/PG-DOWN.
The Menu is opened by pressing ESC, and in the menu you can navigate with the arrow keys and choose an option with ENTER.

You can go to another url by pressing g. You can also use the exisitng url, by pressing G (SHIFT+g). Navigating back and forward is done with the <-- arrow and the u key. (<-- back and u forward.)

You can open a new tab by pressing t. You can open a link in a new tab with T (SHIFT+T). And you can close a tab with c.

If you want to enter text in a textbox, then there is a difference between links2 and elinks. In elinks you'll have to press enter first. In links2 you just can start typing.

Quitting elinks is done with q.

This is just about the basics of Elinks, and your web-surfing days will change a lot. Mine atleast did.

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MOC

(sudo apt-get install moc)
This is a music player for the command line, and it is very good. I've also tried some others, but i didn't like them because you first had to make a playlist. It has a twin view panel, for a playlist and a file browser. If you listen to Di.FM playlists then the playlists of Di.FM will open up in the right panel, but you can still start music from the file browser (left).

Fire it up:
$ mocp

if you want to switch between the panels, press TAB.
Firs navigate to a folder with the arrow keys and ENTER. You can go up a folder by entering this folder: ../ . If you have found an MP3, FLAC or OGG file, play it with ENTER.
Pause with p, and stop with s. With n and b you can play the next or previous file.
The volume can be increased with .[DOT] or > and put down with ,[COMMA] or <.
If you have made a nice playlist, save it with V.
Quitting but letting the music play can be done with q, and quitting entirly can be done with Q.

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In the next part I'll cover Snownews and Vim.

Hope you enjoyed it.