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question for you immutable distro users (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Do you create a toolbox (or equivalent) to modify your interactive shell for all those nice little shell commands/programs? Seems like a pain in the ass to have to launch your terminal from a terminal (toolbox --enter whatever, just to have (doom) emacs, fzf, fdfind, qalc, nnn, zoxide etc etc) just to have a comfortable terminal?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just set mine up to always go into the toolbox image and then I have all the tools I have in there, that way it's transparent and fast, you shouldn't even notice that it's there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

so you can set the launcher to just launch the toolbox image instead of the regular terminal? And it has access to usual ~/ directories? I wouldn't be using for development, just regular usage. I am a heavy terminal user for normal desktop stuff though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, here's the instructions I use: https://distrobox.privatedns.org/useful_tips.html#using-distrobox-as-main-cli

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

super helpful, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is the way I set it up or you could have any terminal that supports a custom command on launch do it: https://distrobox.privatedns.org/useful_tips.html#using-distrobox-as-main-cli