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Reccomend applications that don't need a display server? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social to c/linux@kbin.social

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I accidentally found out that mpv can play videos from the TTY, meaning I don't have to log in to a graphical session. It even has a scaled OSD, unlike anything I've seen in a terminal UI.

Obviously there are plenty of terminal applications that work in a TTY, (edit) intext-mode or using ncurses (/edit), but are there any others like mpv that aren't strictly terminal apps but don't require a display server (maybe because they do the job themselves)?

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[–] Auster@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unsure what are those acronyms, but one text-only Linux program I can't recommend enough is ncdu: it helps managing storage in your system, as well as, indirectly, browsing your files.

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I love ncdu, thank you. I actually mean programs like mpv that are not limited to text-mode, though.