Since last **April 28** is celebrating an event called *The Black Week* (La Semana Negra in spanish). Objective: Survive one week only with the *Shell* with no desktop environment. Do you accept the challenge?.
I found it interesting proposal and I'm actually excited, since many people are moving into the *Linux* world thanks to the Pi. You don't be afraid black background with letters any more!.
You should avoid write *startx* voluntarily, but keep calm, because you are not alone. I'll show you some applications to notice that you do not need a mouse to write an email, browse the internet or post to *Twitter*.
Today we start to get into the *IRC* and meet people like you who are participating in this initiative. So you can share and learn about new applications that will serve you throughout this week.
My proposal for a good *IRC* client will be *weechat*.
To install: **sudo apt-get install weechat**
Once we execute it with *weechat*, we will connect to the freenode network typing **/connect holmes.freenode.net**. Now we can enter various chat rooms, but which we are interested to get into #semananegra on spanish irc channel, so type: **/join #semananegra**
Another usefull *IRC* commands are:
Change nick name: **/nick new_nick**
Send a private message: **/msg nick message**
Show users in the channel: **/names**
Leave chat room: **/part room_name custom_exit_message**
Exit from the app: **/quit**
Another keys:
TAB: Autocomplete nicks or texts.
Alt+Cursor left/right: You move through the different buffers you have open (To learn more about the buffers, read the link I put at the end of the article).
With this you can manage a little longer, but there are still many things to learn, but that depends on you ;)
If you don't like weechat, you can install another one like **irssi** or you can use a *XMPP* client called [profanity](http://www.profanity.im/index.html).
Just for today. You can comment your impressions if you wish.
See you tomorrow!
Link: [weechat.org > WeeChat Quick Start Guide](http://www.weechat.org/files/doc/devel/weechat_quickstart.en.html) | [User guide](http://www.weechat.org/files/doc/stable/weechat_user.en.html)
Link: [kkovacs.eu > cool-but-obscure-unix-tools](http://kkovacs.eu/cool-but-obscure-unix-tools)
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