Comment by 🚲 Thalass

happy with amfora, although i'd quite like a nicer graphical browser. lagrange is alright but i'd like something a bit simpler.. i really liked castor but i've been having some difficulty getting it to compile on freebsd

🚀 starm · Jan 08 at 13:38:

well, wouldn't you know it.. gave it another go and got castor compiled, from which i'm now posting :) this is a pretty happy little graphical browser for me. although i wouldn't be able to pick between this and amfora

🚀 logvoid9 · Jan 21 at 01:19:

Oh the port looks reallly broken wow

— Castor Freshport

🚀 logvoid9 · Jan 21 at 01:22:

Congrats @starm have never toyed with submitting new ports and stuff on bugzilla but maybe consider submitting a patch for FreeBSD castor port

🚀 starm · Jan 21 at 20:03:

@logvoid9 maybe i should look into it! i've thought for a bit about making contributions to the freebsd ports tree, but i've never contributed to another person's project before, and what's more the mechanics of makefiles and stuff go over my head. at one point i did learn enough about how they worked to learn how to hobble my way through writing and applying a patch for personal use, so i could toy with a port and recompile it.. but actually contributing something of substance could be a really fun learning experience

🚀 starm · Jan 21 at 20:06:

don't even remember what i did to make it compile haha i don't think it was from the ports tree though anyway, i think i just got the code directly from whoever it was that wrote castor and did something to make that work. i honestly don't remember if it was even kosher though, i might've done something cursed like compiled it in a linux jail and moved the executable out LOL.. i was i think getting gopherVR to compile that same day though, so i might be mixing up my memories of what exactly i did.. gopherVR i did compile in a linux jail, but i didn't do anything so cursed as then running the exxecutable in my base system, i ran it in the same environment i compiled it in :p

🚀 omorrigan · Feb 09 at 02:12:

i use both since it is flexible

🛞 MaAkThRsYoOySrHtKaAm · Feb 09 at 10:34:

Glad to see I'm not the only one using amfora. Using an edit handler script to edit posts with titan. If you intend to do this then save yourself some trouble and fetch gemini pages with https://github.com/makew0rld/go-gemini This actually opens a text editor where I can do more in-depth composing than in amfora. I also have a keybinding which will produce a gui menu of all sections of a post edit page and open the selected section in a text editor for editing. These scripts post to the board upon saving and closing the text editor. I guess I am using all 3 categories in some way or another.

Edit

I just installed Lagrange via guix. It's very nice. Looks great, easy to navigate. Imported existing key/crt for this BBS identity with a simple drag and drop. Probably, I will use this more often than amfora.

👽 TKurtBond · Mar 10 at 18:03:

I mostly use a GUI, sometimes use a TUI, and very very rarely use CLI.

🌒 s/AskGemini

💀 StrokedOut:

Do you browse the Geminispace with a GUI, TUI, or CLI client? — CLI = run in terminal with parameters to load a single page and immediately and automatically exit upon output, TUI = run in terminal once to load and navigate many pages in succession

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