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So many things from the Modern UNIX tools repo!
My daily drivers are:
lsdinstead ofls- colors, icons, tree-view, more formatting,dustinstead ofdufor better formatting,jqfor viewing JSON,gtopinstead oftopjust because it's so pretty(I've aliased most of these, but there are a few toolchains that have broken)
That
dustis looking fine. I have been usingbtopmyself.I find btop's color schemes don't with well with changing between light and dark mode in the terminal when theme background is turned off.
This is very true. I find
flat-remix-lightto be somewhat decent (still pretty bad) among the options.Okay cool, I'll test that out. Thanks!
Hope it works for you
The light theme doesn't work too well with a dark terminal, but the dark version worked okay. Still, I'd have to switch between. Thanks anyway.
Thanks for sharing this!
If you have (or start) a blog with RSS, please let us know. I would be down to read more of these tips!
I've been using btop, this seems interesting