As others have noticed, this is similar to ytch.xyz.
What ytch does better is that it is mostly keyboard navigable (with minor annoyances), which also makes it usable with a remote control, unlike this.
I actually do use ytch (alongside Kodi and YT Leanback mode) on my Raspberry Pi HTPC that is controlled by remote only. Works fine. Chromium, kiosk mode, entry in ~/.local/share/applications/ytch.desktop, and you're good to go.
I guess you could use this with a remote if your remote can emulate mouse, mine doesn't. Mine is just some old otherwise useless remote recycled from the junk drawer, and made useful again by a cheap IR receiver diode from Amazon.
I'm not too crazy about the UI of Channel Surfer in general, but others have noted that it reminds them of cable services they used, I guess that was the goal.
I'll check out Channel Surfer in a few months. I wish you luck and lots of users :)
It has no support for rrdcached flush, AVERAGE CF is hardcoded , and I cannot seem to get it to not connect lines through gaps where there were no measurements.
I don't think there's a tiling wm that puts mouse first. I think years ago there was some work on KDE to add some tiling behaviour, but I don't know if it was merged and buried in settings somewhere, or it was a plugin, or a patch. I only remember some demonstration video from years ago.
I'm pretty sure there's also Openbox setup with tiling behavior.
I use dwm with some patches, and some customizations that allow for more mouse use.
For instance mouse wheel on the tagbar cycles through tags, mouse wheel on window title cycles through windows, middle click on window title makes currently selected window master, control + mouse wheel on the window title pushes selected window around, mouse wheel on status text increases or decreases sound volume, middle click on status text kills selected window, ctrl + mouse-wheel-up sends selected window to that particular tag, etc etc etc...
So yeah, it's doable in dwm. It's not "mouse first" but most used actions are also doable with mouse, in addition to the keyboard.
It's not too hard, spend an afternoon, or two and you can get it working that way.
Yes, the nag text was removed, but at least xscreensaver gets updates, which was the whole point.
> patches/packages/xscreensaver-5.34-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded.
I promised jwz that I'd keep this updated in -stable when I removed (against
his wishes) the nag screen that complains if a year has passed since that
version was released. So, here's the latest one.
Personally I don't get the point of screesavers at all, since we have monitors that can be sent sleep/standby mode when they're not used.
So? Large majority code running in any distro was developed by third parties. This means nothing. It's a part of Slackware.
It was announced in Tue Sep 16 11:20:30 PDT 2003 that it's a part of 'extra' repository. So, not installed by default, but it's there.
Announcent on Fri Nov 21 13:51:57 CST 2008 says it was moved from extra/ to ap/, meaning installed by default on all except the most stripped down installs.
Also, there's nothing special in using third party tools as package managers, they all use slackwares pkg tools under the hood.
Think (apt<->slackpkg, dpkg -i <-> installpkg, dpkg -r <-> removepkg, etc etc etc).
I used Arch for 8 months sometime in 2010. And I switched my main computer to Arch just yesterday, just to give it a shot, to see a different approach, to use a systemd-based system, to re-learn some stuff, etc etc. Basically to experiment.
IMO Slackware is definitely easier to install, more reasonable defaults, less fiddling with the system post-install. For me it's basically aiming slapt-src (something like yaourt) to https://slackbuilds.org/ (something like AUR, but the scripts are reviewed and tested by site admins) and letting stuff compile & install (with a _lot_ less interaction required than AUR stuff).
Wait for a 14.2 to be released and then give it a shot. See the readme files and http://docs.slackware.com/. I hope you like it.
After answering this f. question with the same f. answer for literally 10 years, I'm starting to feel that some kind of re-branding would be a good thing for Slackware. It doesn't matter what Slackware is, it matters what people think it is. And what they think it is isn't really what it is. It's a reasonable distro.
Anyways, I recommend you give it a shot. See the README files, and http://docs.slackware.com/. And have fun.
In the second segment they introduce a potential tetrachromat, Susan Hogan (not the same person as this article). I don't remember if her tetrachromacy was confirmed a real science experiment, I don't think it was.
But I'd still recommend the whole episode. All three segments were pretty interesting.
Alpha Centauri is the only game of the whole genre I could get into. The SF setting, the faction leaders and their personalities, voiceovers, music, atmosphere... That game is basically my reason for installing wine and playonlinux.