{"id":510,"date":"2009-03-06T12:13:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T19:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/?p=510"},"modified":"2009-03-06T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T22:00:42","slug":"terminals-in-the-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/06\/terminals-in-the-cave","title":{"rendered":"Terminals in the Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of having a very clean desktop, as a part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randsinrepose.com\/archives\/2006\/07\/10\/a_nerd_in_a_cave.html\">The Cave<\/a>, which is an idea I picked up from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randsinrepose.com\">Rands<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_511\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-511\" class=\"size-full wp-image-511\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/helmet.jpeg\" alt=\"Author in Cave\" width=\"216\" height=\"288\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Safely Ensconced in Cave<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A part of having a good workspace, for me, is having a very clean desktop. I run everything as lightly as I can get it because the goal &#8212; the thing that brings about\u00a0 good work, is to establish a place where everything drifts away but the project that you&#8217;re on. For me that means putting away IRC, instant messaging, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\">Twitter<\/a> and email for most of the day and just allowing for one or two really basic windows that I can use. Otherwise, an 8-hour workday can easily produce less than fifteen minutes of actual progress while still feeling exhausting.<\/p>\n<p>Not everybody runs Linux on the desktop, of course, but those of us who do often enjoy a good tight terminal setup. For me, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afterstep.org\/aterm.php\">aterm<\/a> fits the bill quite nicely. Running on a dark, single-color background with the following options produces very nice results:<\/p>\n<p><em>\/usr\/bin\/aterm -bg black -fg white +tr +trsb -fade 60 -bl +sb -font font1<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What do other people do to enhance their productivity on the desktop? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of having a very clean desktop, as a part of The Cave, which is an idea I picked up from Rands. A part of having a good workspace, for me, is having a very clean desktop. I run everything as lightly as I can get it because the goal &#8212; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[111,65,109,110],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-helpful-information","tag-desktop","tag-linux","tag-productivity","tag-terminal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}