Since Not_Oles is forever young and modern, I can act as old and boring My terminals are pretty much standard bash with just a few simple modifications in .bashrc:
PS1='[\e[01;32m]\u@\h[\e[0m:\e[01;33m]\w\$>[\e[0m] '
alias sr='screen -D -r'
alias v='ls -al'
alias vd='ls -al -r -t'
alias vm='ls -al | more'
alias vs='ls -al -r -S'
alias dus='du -d 1 | sort -n'
alias free='freecolor -mt'`
When it comes colors, it has always been black background, white/silver font and colors enabled. I used to be SecureCRT user for 20 years but recently I have been using tabby.sh as my primary terminal program. Everything works out of the box and no reason to tweak things. I use tabs instead of keeping them all visible on screen and with this little addition to .bashrc the tab in tabby.sh keeps updating accordingly wherever I have ssh'ed into.
ORIG=$PS1
TITLE="\e]2;Not_Oles Hosting LLC server #1\a"
PS1=${ORIG}${TITLE}
Once the box is open I typically keep gnu screen running with certain tail -f's of commonly checked log files and stuff.
All my work is done on a chromebook (developer mode). ssh works great and if I need graphics, spice or VNC works perfectly. Majority of my work is cli based so as long as I have ssh and a browser it is job done. Been using this method for at least 10+ years.
I have not found anything I can't handle (yet)....
ssh terminal is 'hazy' - deep purple with light text. Works well in day or night light.
So I suppose I would say the classic 'thin' client approach.
@msatt said: if I need graphics, spice or VNC works perfectly
Hi @msatt! I am curious what you are using for Spice and VNC clients.
There was a Chrome Spice extension that I used a few times on my Chromebook, but this extension got taken out with the departure of Manifest v2.
For VNC I used to use a RealVNC Chrome extension, but, IIRC, RealVNC stopped development in favor of their Android extension. I tried Remmina a few times. It seems to work well, but recently I have been getting notices about Remmina wanting some kind of key:
chronos@penguin:~/servers/linveo$ remmina
** Message: 13:25:18.028: Remmina does not log all output statements. Turn on more verbose output by using "G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all" as an environment variable.
More info available on the Remmina wiki at:
https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina/-/wikis/Usage/Remmina-debugging
Load modules from /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/remmina/plugins
Remmina plugin glibsecret (type=Secret) has been registered, but is not yet initialized/activated. The initialization order is 2000.
Pop-up says: Authentication required. An application wants access to the keyring "Default keyring", but it is locked.
Remmina seems to work without giving it any password, although the pop-up appears 3 times. I have been too lazy to check into what is happening. Maybe you know what this is? And, if you do not mind, what do you use for Spice and VNC on your Chromebook?
@Not_Oles Yes, I am using Realvnc and for spice, I just download the credentials and run virt-viewer in the chromebook cli.
I needed to do some video editing so used a cloud VM. Vnc does not support remote audio so I used spice which worked very well. No point (in my opinion) having a powerful laptop if you have more powerful cloud VMs.
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Since Not_Oles is forever young and modern, I can act as old and boring
My terminals are pretty much standard bash with just a few simple modifications in .bashrc:
When it comes colors, it has always been black background, white/silver font and colors enabled. I used to be SecureCRT user for 20 years but recently I have been using tabby.sh as my primary terminal program. Everything works out of the box and no reason to tweak things. I use tabs instead of keeping them all visible on screen and with this little addition to .bashrc the tab in tabby.sh keeps updating accordingly wherever I have ssh'ed into.
Once the box is open I typically keep gnu screen running with certain tail -f's of commonly checked log files and stuff.
That pretty much sums it all up!
All my work is done on a chromebook (developer mode). ssh works great and if I need graphics, spice or VNC works perfectly. Majority of my work is cli based so as long as I have ssh and a browser it is job done. Been using this method for at least 10+ years.
I have not found anything I can't handle (yet)....
ssh terminal is 'hazy' - deep purple with light text. Works well in day or night light.
So I suppose I would say the classic 'thin' client approach.
Virmach is NOT worth the risk.
@Not_Oles
nothing fancy, i am old school, i use https://gnome-terminator.org/
plenty of shell scripts to help reduce commands.
@ehab Eeeks! Your screenshot seems almost familiar!
Thank you!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Hi @msatt! I am curious what you are using for Spice and VNC clients.
There was a Chrome Spice extension that I used a few times on my Chromebook, but this extension got taken out with the departure of Manifest v2.
For VNC I used to use a RealVNC Chrome extension, but, IIRC, RealVNC stopped development in favor of their Android extension. I tried Remmina a few times. It seems to work well, but recently I have been getting notices about Remmina wanting some kind of key:
Pop-up says: Authentication required. An application wants access to the keyring "Default keyring", but it is locked.
Remmina seems to work without giving it any password, although the pop-up appears 3 times. I have been too lazy to check into what is happening.
Maybe you know what this is? And, if you do not mind, what do you use for Spice and VNC on your Chromebook?
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
@Not_Oles Yes, I am using Realvnc and for spice, I just download the credentials and run virt-viewer in the chromebook cli.
I needed to do some video editing so used a cloud VM. Vnc does not support remote audio so I used spice which worked very well. No point (in my opinion) having a powerful laptop if you have more powerful cloud VMs.
Virmach is NOT worth the risk.