hey all! been continuing my Linux terminal journey, and now I'm able to use Mastodon with a program called toot! combined it with an image viewer program called 'feh' and honestly? I love browsing Mastodon this way. at this rate I'm gonna barely use Firefox lol
4 months ago · 👍 bavarianbarbarian, gritty, resetreboot, m0xee, justyb, klimperfix
You can also browse public mastodon with tools like w3m, which will display images by default. But for me, using mostly text all day is good for my nervous system. It's calm, so I am happy with a very minimal console life. One thing I got super excited about though is when in the console (or terminal) I started ani-cli which is an anime viewing program, and since it's use a video player that works in console I was able to watch my anime directly there without X. You can do a similar thing with youtube. · 3 months ago
yeah! so go install feh (I used sudo apt install for it - it's an older version, but it works), create a text file and copy paste [commands.tui] in one line, and media_viewer = "feh" underneath that, save it as settings.toml and put it in your toot folder, which should be in config! · 4 months ago
feh is a godsend! · 4 months ago
TUI Fediverse experience is different, but I like it too — you get less distracted with images when scrolling through the timeline.
I'm using tut myself — it's very much like tut, but written in Go. Right now the project looks abandoned, but as there were no breaking changes to the API, it still works great. Check that one out too! · 4 months ago
Hey, do you have any tutorial or something to how you use feh with toot? Thank you! · 4 months ago