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I would not call gvim obscure, but I always wonder why people do not recommend NEDIT for newbes on Linux.

I have xconsole running now, I have cron jobs that echo out stats to it every so often. It is a very nice and lite conky replacement.

And a few of these I still use, like xv, xload, xclock, xterm, xless, xmessage and xmahjongg. A few I never heard of.

It is too bad all these cool little tools will be gone for Linux once Wayland becomes a thing.




These would be incredibly light, resource wise. Is there a reason they can't be run on a compatability layer?


AFAIK, NEdit doesn't support Unicode.


Why would something like xmahjongg go away?


Because eventuality Xorg will be gone, so once that happens xmahjongg will not longer work. And to me, xmahjongg is the the best of these type games.

Yes I know wayland as a X emulation, but that will probably be removed once wayland is fully adopted.


The way things are looking, we'll see full Wayland migration just after full IPv6 adoption.

One day...




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