No desktop, Best programs?

[Gerhard Gaußling]

Am Samstag, 6. Februar 2010 schrieb Knapp:
> Use ONLY CLI.
> Have a desktop like experience.
>
> Can it be done? Are there limits?

Try a search like this:

apt-cache search CLI ncurses
apt-cache search GUI ncurses
apt-cache search svga
apt-cache search  SDL
apt-cache search text console
apt-cache search text-based
apt-cache search emacs
etc. 

Here are some examples (I didn't verified all search results):

vfu - A versatile text-based filemanager
console-data - Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fallback tables for 
console-tools

screen - terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
twin - a Text mode WINdow environment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachne_(web_browser)
http://www.glennmcc.org/aralinux/
links2 - Web browser running in both graphics and text mode
w3m - WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support
mutt - text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading
tin - A full-screen easy to use Usenet newsreader
ncftp - A user-friendly and well-featured FTP client
pork - Console-based AOL Instant Messenger & IRC client
rtorrent - ncurses BitTorrent client based on LibTorrent
gopher - Distributed Hypertext Client, Gopher protocol

mp3blaster - Full-screen console mp3 and Ogg Vorbis player
cdtool - text-based audio CD player and CD-ROM control commands
mcdp - Small console cd player
moc - ncurses based console audio player
sox - Swiss army knife of sound processing
aumix - Simple text-based mixer control program
alsa-utils - ALSA utilities -> alsamixer, aplay, arec
audtty - ncurses based frontend to audacious
pytone - Music jukebox with advanced features for DJs and a text-mode 
user interface

jmon - distributed resource monitor
htop - interactive processes viewer

ninvaders - A space invaders-like game using ncurses
bsdgames - a collection of classic textual unix games

mplayer-nogui - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
vlc-nox - multimedia player and streamer (without X support)
aatv - A program to watch TV in a text-based console

bmv - PostScript viewer for SVGAlib
zgv - SVGAlib graphics viewer
aview - A high quality ASCII art image viewer and video player

dosbox - A x86 emulator with Tandy/Herc/CGA/EGA/VGA/SVGA graphics, sound 
and DOS
dosemu - The Linux DOS Emulator

calcurse - text-based calendar and todo manager
sc - Text-based spreadsheet with VI-like keybindings
wv - Programs for accessing Microsoft Word documents
joe - user friendly full screen text editor
jed - editor for programmers (textmode version)
texlive-base - TeX Live: Essential programs and files
vim-latexsuite - view, edit and compile LaTeX documents from within Vim

emacs22-nox - The GNU Emacs editor (without X support)
emacsen-common - Common facilities for all emacsen
emms - The Emacs MultiMedia System
calc - An advanced calculator and mathematical tool for Emacs.
ecasound-el - emacs binding files for ecasound sound editing environment