Fedora 28 Post Install, Part 3

Upgrade to a 256 color terminal (use urxvt256c instead of urxvt):

sudo dnf install rxvt-unicode-256color

Test color output via 256color2.pl:

cd ~/
wget http://scie.nti.st/dist/256colors2.pl

Before:

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After:

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Fire up ncmpcpp and look at the available colors at the bottom of the help [F1] page:

8 color (xterm):

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88 color (urxvt):

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256 color (urxvt256c):

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Add scrot:

sudo dnf install scrot

Popular file managers:

sudo dnf install mc pcmanfm ranger

Enable preview images in ranger:

echo "set preview_images true" >> ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf

Add imgcurses:

sudo dnf install libjpeg-turbo-devel
cd ~/Downloads/
git clone https://github.com/orangeduck/imgcurses
cd imgcurses/
make
sudo make install

A suite of system & network monitoring utilities:

sudo dnf install bmon goaccess iftop iptraf-ng htop mtr nethogs xosview

Upgrade glances:

sudo dnf install redhat-rpm-config-109-1.fc28.noarch
sudo dnf install python-devel
sudo pip install --upgrade glances