Cool applications you use that others might not know of

[IYY]

Here are the rules:


No commonly used applications: This means, no Firefox, Gimp, Inkscape, Open Office, Beryl etc.
Application must be in the repositories (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Feisty repos are all fine).
Application must be fairly easy to use, so that its usefulness can be quickly apparent.


Ok, so here are a couple of applications I've recently discovered that are truly amazing:

Qalculate!

This is without doubt the most powerful calculator I've ever used. And not only is it powerful, but it's also incredibly easy to use. It can not only be used for simple calculations, but also to factor, simplify, integrate, differentiate, sum, take means, calculate areas, do unit conversions, matrix multiplication... anything you can think of in the realm of math, science, engineering or finance. It even has a periodic table built in!

One thing I can tell you for certain: if I had this nifty little tool during my highschool education, I would not have learned anything, because it can do everything for me!

Even for simple calculations this tool is better than a regular calculator due to its intuitive interface that helps eliminate errors. For example, suppose I type in a slightly ambiguous expression like

12+5^2

as I type, text will appear underneath the input box telling me that the calculator understands the expression as

12+(5^2)

Makes you far more confident, and less error prone.

The program is available in both QT and GTK.

Agave

A far less ambitious program than Qalculate, but useful nonetheless. Agave is a colour scheme designer. You can pick a colour, and the program will show you its complement, split complement (a 3 colour scheme), triads, tetrads, an analogous scheme, or a monochromatic scheme.

So, if you are designing a webpage or a pamphlet, or even doing some digital painting, this program will tell you which colours go well together.

A tip: some people don't know that in GTK, you can drag and drop almost anything. So, you can grab a colour from The Gimp, drag it into Agave, and then drag and drop the complement of that colour back into The Gimp. Very useful.

Hydrogen

I am an amateur musician, but when it comes to electronic music I am twice as uneducated. Anyway, Hydrogen still managed to impress me. This application can be used to create drum and other percussion patterns. It's very easy to use (I figured it out instantly, with 0 experience in the field), and can be fun for those who have never played an instrument or done any work with sound.

It's a QT app, but looks equally good in both Gnome and KDE since it has its own theme anyway.

Zim

Zim is a desktop wiki. I guess it's very similar to Tomboy notes which you may be familiar with, but is designed for a more general purpose. You can create your own wikis (like Wikipedia) on your own computer, without using a browser, and with a very simple WYSIWYG interface. Can be handy to stay organized.

A GTK app.

Beneath a Steel Sky

This is an old cyberpunk point-and-click adventure game that has been ported (with ScummVM) to Linux. It's completely free, can be downloaded from the repositories, and even comes with speech (that is, every line of dialog in the game is spoken). The graphics are a bit dated, but the storyline is excellent. If you enjoyed games like Monkey Island, King Quest and Quest for Glory, you will love this one.

Ok... I'm done. Your turn!

[fuscia]

feh

great image viewer and background setter. perfect for those of use who use wms instead of DEs. http://linuxbrit.co.uk/feh/

[Nikron]

Xara Xtreme (http://www.xaraxtreme.org/)

Like inkscape, but in my opinion, better.

Torrent Flux

Cool for home web servers, let's you start a torrent download at home from anywhere using
a web php GUI.

[Lord Illidan]

Qalculate is indeed very very good.

Htop is a fine alternative to top, try it out, it is in the repositories.

[IYY]

Htop is a fine alternative to top, try it out, it is in the repositories

Cool! I think I will use this from now on.

[Nils Olav]

Links2 is kinda cool.

[maniacmusician]

Filelight
It's a program that lets you view disk usage in a different way than usual. I thought it was kind of neat.

[euler_fan]

R--It's a statistics program that can do much much more. Best downloaded and installed separately. Also best with a CLI.

[reacocard]

In edgy:
geany - lightweight multi-language IDE
gajim - Jabber IM client
seahorse - GPG keyring
atris - tetris, with a twist

Coming in feisty:
specto - unobtrusive event notifier
deluge - simple bittorrent client

Not in official repos (all in mine, see my sig for link):
avant-window-navigator - cool dock-like taskbar (needs compositor)
screenlets - dashboard-like widgets for linux (needs compositor)
exaile - amarok for gtk, but better.
tangerine - share your music via DAAP

[Adamant1988]

I've grown very fond of BlogBridge

http://www.blogbridge.com/

It's a VERY full featured open-source RSS reader. Java based though.

[po0f]

Htop is a fine alternative to top, try it out, it is in the repositories.

++ to this. I was going to suggest it, but I am mildly surprised someone beat me to it. :)

[Henry Rayker]

I second filelight.

It makes a multilayered pi chart of your harddrive usage. (So you get a graphical feel for not only which directories are taking up the most space, but also what subdirectories inside of that and so on.) This is the best program I have ever used to look at disk usage.

Another that I really like is rtorrent.

Basically, it's an ncurses based command line torrent manager...it feels as if my downloads are quicker, and I know it uses a lot less of my system resources than anything else I tried.

[Onyros]

First one that comes to mind is PCManFM (http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/), which I usually dub as Thunar with tabs. It's a great little file manager.

[Mateo]

good thread, i'm definitely giving some of these applications a shot.

There are two scripts in my signature that I know no one uses but me. Included in these scripts is:

theyoke: a very simple CLI rss aggregator. it's good to use in conjunction with wget or some other application for grabbing files or posts.

youtube-dl: command line program for downloading youtube videos.

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some others I use that aren't super popular:

Stellarium: In my mind, the best astronomy program. I like it much better than celestia because it's like looking at the night's sky from your house.

hellanzb: I don't know why it's not more popular. I guess because torrents are more popular than usenet. but for grabbing binary files, it's definitely the best program that exists.

gcolor2: a very nice program for web development. it will tell you the color of anything on your computer.

[Spr0k3t]

I'm going to add a throw for Ex Falso. This is an ID3 tag editor that let's you generator the tags on the fly. Do clusters, directories, albums, by filename, etc. It also allows you to set your preferred tagging method and file renaming. So if you get a bunch of new music off of a CD you just put on your drive, and want to tag and move them easily, Ex Falso will move and rename the files tagging them for you. It takes a bit to really see the power the application has... but it's well worth the curve if you have a decent size music directory.

[Bakerconspiracy]

I too found filelight very useful. Well disigned little program.

I have come to offer streamtuner coupled with streamripper. Streamripper takes all the online radio stations from shoutcast and many other online radio station hosts, and creates an easy to use browser for radio stations based on genre. With streamripper you can easily rip the music that is being streamed to your computer (a very easy way to accumulate a nice music library), but very illegal. Just set streamripper to not reconnect when you have been kicked from a server and no one will ever find out :)

[userundefine]

Great idea for a thread. I'm already finding cool things.

yakuake. KDE app. This is a godsend for people who like the terminal to always be accessible. You can assign a keyboard shortcut, and when you hit it yakuake flies out and gives you a terminal immediately. My shortcut is Ctrl + Spacebar. You can control the speed of the animation too if you want it to happen faster. It sits in memory so is always ready. Keeps my hand off the mouse reaching down to my toolbar to execute, and frees up that screen real estate since I no longer have a need for a shortcut to Konsole. You can also have tabbed terminals within yakuake, and matched with GNU screen you never will need another terminal program.

[K.Mandla]

Mirage (http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/x11/mirage), which is a very straightforward GTK image viewer. Does resizing, conversion and some other things. I use it on old machines that would suffer under the Gimp.

ePDFView (http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/text/epdfview), which is similar in that it's a simple, lightweight PDF viewer (as you might have imagined) built on GTK. No Gnome deps.

Leafpad (http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/editors/leafpad), GTK notepad-like editor. Does it exactly that, and not a stitch more. But that's what I like about it.

Qingy (http://qingy.sourceforge.net/), a framebuffer substitute for getty (think: login manager) that is much, much lighter than KDM/GDM and looks better than XDM/WDM.

Kazehakase (http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/web/kazehakase), which is a Gecko-based browser that will run circles around Firefox, especially on older machines.

lxpanel (http://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpanel), because Openbox users need to dump PyPanel.

xcompmgr (http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/x11/xcompmgr), because Openbox users can do transparency too.

Xfe (http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/x11/xfe) or PCManFM (http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/utils/pcmanfm), if you can be bothered to choose. PCManFM has more features and looks better, but Xfe is about the fastest graphical file manager I can find, and the 0.98 version actually looks good for a change.

rxvt-unicode (http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/x11/rxvt-unicode), by far the best-looking terminal emulator, for my money.

+1 for Deluge, HTop, gColor2, Audacious and rtorrent. Special runner-up prize to Midnight Commander. ;)

[Malta paul]

I find (Quad-lock) UnitConverter.exe very useful. It has Lots of conversion categories. Will work OK in Ubuntu with Wine.:)

[runningwithscissors]

Great idea for a thread. I'm already finding cool things.

yakuake. KDE app. This is a godsend for people who like the terminal to always be accessible. You can assign a keyboard shortcut, and when you hit it yakuake flies out and gives you a terminal immediately. My shortcut is Ctrl + Spacebar. You can control the speed of the animation too if you want it to happen faster. It sits in memory so is always ready. Keeps my hand off the mouse reaching down to my toolbar to execute, and frees up that screen real estate since I no longer have a need for a shortcut to Konsole. You can also have tabbed terminals within yakuake, and matched with GNU screen you never will need another terminal program.
And for those who don't want KDE deps, and prefer a GTK alternative:
Tilda (http://tilda.sourceforge.net/)

[PartisanEntity]

Great idea for a thread, great input :)

[seshomaru samma]

First one that comes to mind is PCManFM (http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/), which I usually dub as Thunar with tabs. It's a great little file manager.

it is very cool - how do i make it default instead of nautilus?

[compwiz18]

krename

a great little app for renaming files, can do almost anything I can think of (I use it mostly for renaming pictures by number, but it can do mp3s by tag and stuff too)

ntop looks cool too, although it would appear the Japan repo servers are down ATM

also, see wicd in my sig (not in repo but .deb is avaliable)

[Mateo]

pcman seems pretty great. How is it on low end systems? Systems not fast enough to run thunar?

[fuscia]

it is very cool - how do i make it default instead of nautilus?

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonautilusplease

[karellen]

chkrootkit, even it's a cli application...as the name says, it does one thing and it does it well: checks for rootkits :D. I find it handy and useful

[fuscia]

exhibit is an image viewer for e17. it's kind of like a shiney, pretty version of gqview. best thing about it - it actually works.

[tagra123]

conky -- its in the repos (I use it to place a 5 day weather forecast & current contitions) -- its also a good system monitor.. It generally uses between 0.35% and 0.40% of processor. That's right its less than 1%. Shows cpu usage, network usages, system messages, drive usage, uptime and .................................................


Its in the repos - but compiling the one one sourceforge gives a few more features.

[Rui Pais]

great thread!
my two favorites:
texmacs it's a great scientific editor.
texmacs (yes deserves beeing referenced twice :)) It works too as a GUI for a lot of apps like, maxima, gnuplot, R, axiom, etc.

scite excellent file editor with colored syntax, automplete, compilation window and a thousand options that make gedit a poor one, but lighter and much faster.

[cstudent]

nautilus-open-terminal

Adds a right click menu option to open the terminal, either from the desktop or in a nautilus directory. If you use it in a nautilus directory, it will open terminal in that directory. I always have to log out and back in when I first install it to see it.

[moore.bryan]

lxpanel (http://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpanel), because Openbox users need to dump PyPanel.
lxpanel is way too messy for my taste... the simplicity of pypanel is beatiful in my Thoreau-an eyes. ;-)

Xfe (http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/x11/xfe) or PCManFM (http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/utils/pcmanfm), if you can be bothered to choose. PCManFM has more features and looks better, but Xfe is about the fastest graphical file manager I can find, and the 0.98 version actually looks good for a change.
i second the call for xfe; it's all i ever use.

[Mateo]

how do you install lxpanel? It's not in the repos and compiling from source didn't work for me.

[picpak]

Qingy (http://qingy.sourceforge.net/), a framebuffer substitute for getty (think: login manager) that is much, much lighter than KDM/GDM and looks better than XDM/WDM.

I haven't tried Qingy, but has anyone on Ubuntu tried Slim (http://slim.berlios.de/)? I found a .deb for it here: http://debian.sshonly.sytes.net/unstable/slim_1.2.5-1_i386.deb

I also second urxvt, it's a great little terminal that can look a lot nicer than aterm (but it seems to lag on Arch?)

[Rui Pais]

Another app i use constantly that make my life much more easy but never read much about it, is meld.
Its a gui app for check diffs on files. From code to text files, colored output, editing/merging/cut on the fly.

Never managed to get my way with plain diff :(

[Mateo]

what is diff?

[Rui Pais]

what is diff?

a nightmare :p

A terminal app that outputs the differences between 2 files.
I think it's the only thing on terminal that i couldn't get used...

it' s very usefull for kernel configs, several versions of config files, merging or compare code, text, lists, etc.

Some distros, like Gentoo, use it as a basic tool. When the user are updating a file that have config files that don't match the one present on user installation...


edit:
another good use for meld, it's for merging entrys of menu.lst when one had several Linuxs and one separeted boot partition with a grub menu to manage all those OSs. A simple click to add or remove entrys avoid a lot of errors :)

[suziequzie]

good thread, i'm definitely giving some of these applications a shot.

There are two scripts in my signature that I know no one uses but me. Included in these scripts is:

...

youtube-dl: command line program for downloading youtube videos.

....

Wow, way cool!8-) Just went there, got it, and gave it a try. As I said, way cool.

(My boyfriend, when I tried to explain the program to him, said "That means nothing to me you know..." I told him if there's any videos he likes, I can use this to save them for him. He won't remember how).

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For anyone with an iRiver H10 series MP3 player, I'd have to say easyh10.
This perfectly sets the database for my player so I can navigate using the native firmware, as opposed to using rockbox (which eats battery power big time).

Also streamtuner is good. I love listening to streaming comedy stations, and I've got it set with streamripper to download the stream to my harddrive to later place on my mp3 player.

[Mateo]

Yeah, I use streamripper a lot too. i set up some aliases to start recording a station. I do this every once in a while when I want to hear some new music. I love how it perfectly divides the stream by songs.

[seijuro]

Ksynaptics - gui synaptics touchpad config utility best used in edgy or newer. There is also a Gsynaptics for Gnome but I haven't tried it yet.

KQ - old school rpg similar to Final Fantasy back in the old days.

[K.Mandla]

I almost forgot: MaCoPiX (http://rosegray.sakura.ne.jp/macopix/index-e.html). :D

[Onyros]

I think I must add a disclaimer to my PCManFM recommendations: even though it is a great app, it's still somewhat buggy. The main existing bug is the fact that it doesn't grey out deletion whenever a file's not selected; and when you do proceed with deletion, it deletes the entire folder you're currently browsing... meaning: if you're browsing the desktop and you accidentally delete with no file selected... your entire Desktop will be "rm'ed" (not only its contents, the folder itself).

So, as cool as it is... it's better to delete through the terminal, at least until PCMan corrects that "little" bug.

(and yeah, I've lost my share of important files because of PCManFM, but I still use and recommend it)

[wersdaluv]

My most favorite app ever...BasKet Note Pads! (http://basket.kde.org/)




This multi-purpose note-taking application can helps you to:

* Easily take all sort of notes
* Collect research results and share them
* Centralize your project data and re-use them
* Quickly organize your toughts in idea boxes
* Keep track of your information in a smart way
* Make intelligent To Do lists
* And a lot more...

[Mateo]

I think I must add a disclaimer to my PCManFM recommendations: even though it is a great app, it's still somewhat buggy. The main existing bug is the fact that it doesn't grey out deletion whenever a file's not selected; and when you do proceed with deletion, it deletes the entire folder you're currently browsing... meaning: if you're browsing the desktop and you accidentally delete with no file selected... your entire Desktop will be "rm'ed" (not only its contents, the folder itself).

So, as cool as it is... it's better to delete through the terminal, at least until PCMan corrects that "little" bug.

(and yeah, I've lost my share of important files because of PCManFM, but I still use and recommend it)

thanks, but do you know if it runs well on low-end systems (systems that run fluxbox or something like that).

[fuscia]

I almost forgot: MaCoPiX (http://rosegray.sakura.ne.jp/macopix/index-e.html). :D

is that a first-person shooter game?

[Rui Pais]

is that a first-person shooter game?

It's an app to make small little Japanese girls sit on the menu bar of your windows.
If you shot them will be your responsibility to pay for the funerals and the new monitors :lol:.

[AndyCooll]

Revelation: A great little password manager for your websites etc.

Freespeak: Excellent little translation tool.

Easytag: Not sure if this borders on being a "well-known" app. Best music tagging etc program around.

:cool:

[Aetherius]

devilspie (http://wiki.foosel.net/linux/devilspie)

Its in the repos.

Its a windows-matching utility for gnome, some excellent functionality available from this. some examples:


Place a transparent terminal as your background
Dock your gaim contacts list to the side of the desktop
BEST USE EVER: pin the gimp toolbar/layers windows to ALL workspaces allowing you to manipulate images full screen over multiple desktops without having to go looking for the damn panels!

[3rdalbum]

For application development, I can never go past Pythoncard.

For games, my current favourite is Enigma. I used to love Per Oxyd on the Mac, so Enigma is great.

Oh, and LinBolo is another port from the Mac.

[Onyros]

thanks, but do you know if it runs well on low-end systems (systems that run fluxbox or something like that).Yep, I use PCManFM on a wide spectrum of machines, for example a Pentium III 733MHz with 384MB RAM or an IBM Thinkpad T23 (Pentium III-M 1GHz + 512MB RAM), with Fluxbox & E17, and it runs perfectly, faster than any other GUI file manager other than XFE.

It takes less than 10MB of RAM, even if you open multiple instances of the program (which you won't, because it has native tab support enabled), so it's perfect in terms of RAM usage.

[Takmadeus]

I second easytag.... it is the best tagger for any system ever created....

make you feel i control of your collections and is quite specific when editing ID3 tags ;)

[gosh]

I use kmidimon, a midi monitor, to see what is happening between my VOX Tonelab SE pedal board and my Ubuntu box.
I do run Gnome, but prefer kmidimon over gmidimon

[Waappu]

Hi

I use nautilus-actions. This can add things to Nautilus right-click menu.

[Oki]

If you download a CHM file(= Microsoft Compressed HTML Help", witch is a proprietary format), there is a lot of viewers for Linux(as xCHM, gnochm, kchmviewer, kchm), but I dont like how it works(so used to PDF).

The command based program CHMLIB can extract it for you, and very fast.

The program HTMLDOC can convert the extracted files to a PDF for you. HTMLDOC can also download urls as HTML, PS, PDF or Seperated HTML. Is great when you find a guide on the nett that you want to save.

[BuffaloX]

I like GdeskCal
A nice desktop calendar a bit like rainlendar which I used in the "old" days.

http://www.pycage.de/#gdeskcal

[jenhsun]

If you download a CHM file(= Microsoft Compressed HTML Help", witch is a proprietary format), there is a lot of viewers for Linux(as xCHM, gnochm, kchmviewer, kchm), but I dont like how it works(so used to PDF).

The command based program CHMLIB can extract it for you, and very fast.

The program HTMLDOC can convert the extracted files to a PDF for you. HTMLDOC can also download urls as HTML, PS, PDF or Seperated HTML. Is great when you find a guide on the nett that you want to save.

I use Firefox to view CHM file. is that count?
Go to mozilla plugin site and make a CHM search then you will get it.
When you need to view the CHM file under firefox, just click the file menu.
If you need to see the chm left sidebar, just click view/sidebar in firefox.

Firefox has so many cool addin, you should give a try.

[jenhsun]

Synergy: Multi-Moniter and PC solution.
I have 4 pc and 4 LCD running my daily tasks. I have XP, windows server, ubuntu dekstop...all different platform. I don't want to use switch to switch to and from my LCD. This is a cool utility for you, even you can copy the texts from Linux to and from Windows.

Start-Up Manager: Change Boot Loading screen.
GUI based to change loading screen. So your startup will be very different.

gcursor: change X11 mouse theme.
GUI based too, change mouse theme.

:popcorn:

[roachk71]

VICE.

This package (in the multiverse repo, I believe) emulates almost all of the classic 8-bit Commodore home computers, but not without the ROMs... :KS

I like to run my favorite demos and relive the demoscene heyday years. :popcorn:
The C-64 was capable of much more than most users were aware of!

[ButteBlues]

Wyeneken (not in repos):

A LaTeX editor written in Python that uses BBcode style markup.

[ButteBlues]

double post

[Bou]

I second easytag.... it is the best tagger for any system ever created...

I've always thought cowbell is a much handier, straight-to-the-point application. Please give it a try.

[gosh]

I've always thought cowbell is a much handier, straight-to-the-point application. Please give it a try.

I'll give it a try!

[fuscia]

obmenu for openbox. it's like bringing toilet paper on a camping trip.

[bonzodog]

May I suggest Weechat (http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/net/weechat).

Very cool, light console IRC client.

[drfox]

PDFedit. It's in the repos. You can add text to pdf's, rearrange and add pages. It's got a kindof weird interface, but it's a really needed addition to linux.

Larry

[rolando2424]

Nice programs :D

I'll give a few of these a try.

Now what I use.

Liferea to get RSS feeds. (in the repositories)

Exaile to listen to music.

rRootage (a good game :D it's in the repositories)

Centericq (It's like having GAIM, but running ON YOUR TERMINAL!!!!! Good for when you want to fell like a l33t h@x0r :D (it's in te repositories))

KeyJnote (http://keyjnote.sourceforge.net/) (Now, this program/script rocks... And very hard :D. Think of it as a Powerpoint meets Beryl kind of thing. This python script picks up a pdf file, and it makes a presentation with it. Give a go, it doesn't even has to be installed on a Linux machine (ah... the wonder of python :D))

Emesene (http://emesene-msn.blogspot.com/) (A msn meesenger written in Python (Use the deb package on the attachment, because the ones on the main website sometimes don't work)

Frets on Fire (http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/uv/fretsonfire/) (A Guittar-Hero like game that run on Linux)

PyDance (A Dance Dance Revolution type of game written in Python (it's in the repositories))

DoomRL (http://doom.chaosforge.org/) (A five minutes rougelike game, based on Doom. A nice change for when you just lost your 9 level Wizard with a pet Dragon on Nethack :D)

Berserk! (http://berserk.chaosforge.org/) (Another game from the same author of DoomRL, but this one is even shorter :D Just survive for the longest time possible)

And I think that's all :D

[IYY]

devilspie (http://wiki.foosel.net/linux/devilspie)

Its in the repos.

Its a windows-matching utility for gnome, some excellent functionality available from this. some examples:


Place a transparent terminal as your background
Dock your gaim contacts list to the side of the desktop
BEST USE EVER: pin the gimp toolbar/layers windows to ALL workspaces allowing you to manipulate images full screen over multiple desktops without having to go looking for the damn panels!


I installed this app and figured out how to use it, but I can't come up with a script for this third idea (Gimp). Could you please post your .ds file for it?

[C-A]

PDFedit. It's in the repos. You can add text to pdf's, rearrange and add pages. It's got a kindof weird interface, but it's a really needed addition to linux.

Larry

Looked for it but can't find it. Can you point me in the right direction?

[AndyCooll]

I've always thought cowbell is a much handier, straight-to-the-point application. Please give it a try.

I've just had a look at this. It's ok, however currently it doesn't hold a candle to Easytag. For instance pattens for renaming files are somewhat limited, as is the adding of album covers etc, as is the creation of playlists, I could go on ...

:cool:

[kerry_s]

Looked for it but can't find it. Can you point me in the right direction?

-> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=366470

[floke]

Am quite liking catfish (in the repos).
Not sure if this is little known, but it was to me!

Great heads up on the apps here btw. Particularly like PCManFM.
Thanks to all who posted.

[C-A]

-> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=366470

thanks!

[RAV TUX]

Peekko Chat

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=386422

[dbbolton]

a few that i like but haven't seen mentioned: KLatin, GNUSolfege and Verbiste

if anyone's interested, here's a song i made with hydrogen: http://www.archive.org/download/soibecamecomplacent/Bones.mp3

[zachtib]

Coming in feisty:
deluge - simple bittorrent client


thanks for the mention, but I'd advise against using the version in feisty's repositories (0.4.1). 0.5 is out, and doesn't suffer from many of the problems 0.4 did.

[Koori23]

++ to this. I was going to suggest it, but I am mildly surprised someone beat me to it. :)

Just downloaded htop. Thank you thank you.. This is great, it even gives you more info than Gnome's System Monitor! The Percentage of RAM per program is excellent. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.

[reacocard]

thanks for the mention, but I'd advise against using the version in feisty's repositories (0.4.1). 0.5 is out, and doesn't suffer from many of the problems 0.4 did.

Feisty won't have 0.5? Dang, 0.5 >>>>> 0.4.

If you want an Ubuntu repository, I can host the packages for you in mine, just like I already do for a few other projects (Exaile, AWN, Affinity).

[deadlydeathcone]

I've just had a look at this. It's ok, however currently it doesn't hold a candle to Easytag. For instance pattens for renaming files are somewhat limited, as is the adding of album covers etc, as is the creation of playlists, I could go on ... :cool:

Ex Falso is my favorite as Cowbell seems to screw up custom tags, and although Easytag is cool it has an incredibly weird ui. Picard (http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardQt) (the official client of Musicbrainz), though, is the best by far for tagging entire albums, and the version for Feisty (http://users.musicbrainz.org/~luks/picard-qt/picardqt.png) is nearly automated.

Other than that Agave is a nice tool that generates color schemes, Kompozer (http://www.getdeb.net/search.php?keywords=kompozer)is an improved nvu, and Gtkdebconf lists all of the configurable packages installed, which is handy. I also have to mention nicotine+, which is great for finding painfully obscure music. If anyone wants it I attached a Feisty deb for the newest version, as it isn't officially packaged yet.

[AndyCooll]

Ex Falso is my favorite, as Cowbell seems to screw up custom tags and although Easytag is cool it has an incredibly weird ui. Picard (http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardQt) (the official client of Musicbrainz), though, is the best by far for tagging entire albums, and the version for Feisty (http://users.musicbrainz.org/~luks/picard-qt/picardqt.png) is nearly automated.

Following your recommendation, I tried Ex Falso ...and I liked it. However I guess I've got used to the quirkyness of Easytag and still prefer that for now. I also took a look at that Picard link. That looks very promising indeed, and I'm looking forward to seeing that in Feisty!

:cool:

[zachtib]

Feisty won't have 0.5? Dang, 0.5 >>>>> 0.4.

If you want an Ubuntu repository, I can host the packages for you in mine, just like I already do for a few other projects (Exaile, AWN, Affinity).

i'll likely run the repository myself, on deluge-torrent.org

[NotPhil]

No commonly used applications: This means, no Firefox, Gimp, Inkscape, Open Office, Beryl etc.
Application must be in the repositories (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Feisty repos are all fine).
Application must be fairly easy to use, so that its usefulness can be quickly apparent.

How about some apps that aren't in the repositories?


Gemstone (http://www.ninthavenue.com.au/products/gemstone) lets you use OpenOffice Base for accounting.
Grism (http://www.grism.org/index.html) allows you to track stocks.
Homebank (http://homebank.free.fr/) is a pretty nice electronic checkbook.
Inkblot (http://www.mikegtn.net/1117) tells you how much ink your printer has left in it.
PanelFM (http://panelfm.sourceforge.net/) gives the GNOME Panel a quick, menu-based, file browser.
PyChess (http://pychess.googlepages.com/) is an attractive front-end for chess programs.
Sirius (http://sirius.bitvis.nu/) is a well-designed Reversi game.
Warzone 2100 (http://wz2100.net/introduction.html) is a port of a 3D real-time strategy game.

[Lord Illidan]

How about some apps that aren't in the repositories?

Gemstone (http://www.ninthavenue.com.au/products/gemstone) lets you use OpenOffice Base for accounting.
Grism (http://www.grism.org/index.html) allows you to track stocks.
Homebank (http://homebank.free.fr/) is a pretty nice electronic checkbook.
Inkblot (http://www.mikegtn.net/1117) tells you how much ink your printer has left in it.
PanelFM (http://panelfm.sourceforge.net/) gives the GNOME Panel a quick, menu-based, file browser.
PyChess (http://pychess.googlepages.com/) is an attractive front-end for chess programs.
Sirius (http://sirius.bitvis.nu/) is a well-designed Reversi game.
Warzone 2100 (http://wz2100.net/introduction.html) is a port of a 3D real-time strategy game.

++ for Warzone 2100...I think there's an autopackage somewhere. Ah, here : http://wz2100.net/downloads.html

Very nice game.

[migla]

ontv (http://johan.svedberg.com/projects/coding/ontv/) - gnome panel applet to monitor current and upcoming TV programs.

[IYY]

ontv (http://johan.svedberg.com/projects/coding/ontv/) - gnome panel applet to monitor current and upcoming TV programs.

Cool! I think I'll use this one.

[K.Mandla]

Grime (http://grime.sourceforge.net/), a Grub menu editor which is a little old and I think has been absorbed into gnome-system-tools or something. But it's still cool to add a background image to your Grub menu.

[Kuoi]

I second :

Easytag
Kompozer : Indeed the 'upgraded' NVU
Devilspie (needed it to fix a "Listen"(the audio player) problem)

Wine + Utorrent : for my torrent needs .
Sorry to say , but out of experience , nothing can beat Utorrent... it downloads 10 times faster then all other clients.

Thanks for this treath , I've founded Deskcal , and trie to figure out how to install "Youtube-dl" (can't find it in the repos).
Can somebody help me with Youtube-dl?

Kuoi

[ArtificialSynapse]

N

rRootage (a good game :D it's in the repositories)




Hmm... so I got this installed and I load it up but I can't find to any key or command that will do anything, it just sits there at the main screen, what do I do?!

[joselin]

ontv (http://johan.svedberg.com/projects/coding/ontv/) - gnome panel applet to monitor current and upcoming TV programs.

Great, really really usefull. I test it yesterday and works like a charm.

[nsleiman]

Just a great thread :)

i love most "tilda" as replacement for the standard terminal,

[PartisanEntity]

I am not at my Linux machine to try this, how does ontv work, does it have a fixed number of channels included or can I add channels? For example local channels here in Austria?

Thanks

[fuscia]

sysv-rc-conf 'tis the way to speed up the boot process.
woohoo, that's fast!!1 (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=89491&highlight=speed+boot)

[gosh]

ontv (http://johan.svedberg.com/projects/coding/ontv/) - gnome panel applet to monitor current and upcoming TV programs.

Hi, this looks cool.
I'm trying to compile it, but ./configure ends with:


checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.5... python
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking for python version... 2.5
checking for python platform... linux2
checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.5/site-packages
checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.5/site-packages
checking for headers required to compile python extensions... found
checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for ONTV... configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0
pygtk-2.0 >= 2.10.0
pygobject-2.0 >= 2.12.0
gnome-python-2.0 >= 2.16.0
gnome-python-extras-2.0 >= 2.14.2
notify-python >= 0.1.1) were not met:

No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
No package 'pygtk-2.0' found
No package 'pygobject-2.0' found
No package 'gnome-python-2.0' found
No package 'gnome-python-extras-2.0' found
No package 'notify-python' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables ONTV_CFLAGS
and ONTV_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.


I do have these packages installed. Why can't they be found?

[reacocard]

Hi, this looks cool.
I'm trying to compile it, but ./configure ends with:


checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.5... python
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking for python version... 2.5
checking for python platform... linux2
checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.5/site-packages
checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.5/site-packages
checking for headers required to compile python extensions... found
checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for ONTV... configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0
pygtk-2.0 >= 2.10.0
pygobject-2.0 >= 2.12.0
gnome-python-2.0 >= 2.16.0
gnome-python-extras-2.0 >= 2.14.2
notify-python >= 0.1.1) were not met:

No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
No package 'pygtk-2.0' found
No package 'pygobject-2.0' found
No package 'gnome-python-2.0' found
No package 'gnome-python-extras-2.0' found
No package 'notify-python' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables ONTV_CFLAGS
and ONTV_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.


I do have these packages installed. Why can't they be found?

You need the -dev packages for them.

[gosh]

You need the -dev packages for them.

I have the following packages installed:

libgtk2.0-dev
python-gtk2-dev
python-gobject-dev
python-gnome-devdesktop-dev
python-notify

Am I missing something here?

EDIT: I'm running Feisty and using the Feisty repos, so all are the latest versions

[LookTJ]

I have the following packages installed:

libgtk2.0-dev
python-gtk2-dev
python-gobject-dev
python-gnome-devdesktop-dev
python-notify

Am I missing something here?

EDIT: I'm running Feisty and using the Feisty repos, so all are the latest versionsI think you need:



sudo aptitude install build-essentialbut I don't know, please correct me if i'm wrong.

Also, try the Programming Talk forum.

[joselin]

Why about if you simply "apt-get install ontv"?

[qpwoeiruty]

Why about if you simply "apt-get install ontv"?

OK, that just made me really sad. I just spent 2hrs manually updating packages and installing/configuring ontv and xmltv, finally getting it to work, to find out that I could simply do an apt-get :(

BTW: I did try sudo apt-get install ontv but I mist have misspelled something the first time through since it couldn't find it. doh!

[gosh]

I think you need:



sudo aptitude install build-essentialbut I don't know, please correct me if i'm wrong.

Also, try the Programming Talk forum.

I have build-essential installed.
But, BLAST, I didn't checked if it was in the repos:oops:

[stimpsonjcat]

disc-cover fetches album images from the internet and creates very beautiful cd covers. it's a command-line program but very easy to use.

maelstrom, a port of the mac game. the linux version supports network play!

[houstonbofh]

I too use streamtuner/ripper and love it. And this thread will eat up more time than anything! :) More shiny stuff!

[floke]

I've just discovered Zim. It looks very cool, I just wish I could think of something to use it for!

[molgar]

Glipper (http://glipper.sourceforge.net/) - a great clipboard manager, it's on the repos.
Avant Window Navigator (http://code.google.com/p/avant-window-navigator/) - very slick dock, requires beryl for it to display correctly.
jUpload (http://juploadr.sourceforge.net/)r - java app to upload pictures to flickr, much better than the official windows one.
Gnome Subtitles (http://gnome-subtitles.sourceforge.net/) - the first subtitle editor in Gnome, to my knowledge, that features video preview. Great little piece of software.
GCStar (http://www.gcstar.org/) - want to make a database of all your dvds, books...? This is the right app to do it with.

[KaroSHiv0n]

Well not sure how many people this is useful for, but i love gco (gnome comic organiser) it lets you database comics as well as adding up the cover price, its simple too :)

[PhatStreet]

Hmm... so I got this installed and I load it up but I can't find to any key or command that will do anything, it just sits there at the main screen, what do I do?!
Z and X are the only action keys, and the arrow keys move. In the default game mode, Z shoots and X uses your shields. Try the very last level, it's insane. :)

[SunnyRabbiera]

I use Zim desktop wiki, its good for taking down notes :D

[happy-and-lost]

Debian.exe - Aside from having the best domain on the internet (http://goodbye-microsoft.com/), it's a fantastic tool which works seamlessly. Differs from Ubuntu's equivalent because it doesn't install Debian in the Windows partition, it's basically the netinstall CD without the need for a CD. Very, very useful for getting Debian on machines with no CD/USB/Floppy.

viruskiller - Game in the repos. Nuke little green viruses which come flooding into your folders from IE, MSN, Outlook and the Recycle Bin :) http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/virusKiller.php

[raul_]

Has anyone mentioned Claws-Mail or Sylpheed Claws?

IMHO it's the best GTK e-mail client out there, and i prefer it to Evolution and Thunderbird (but i'm a suspect since i don't even use Firefox =P. i use kazehakase, already mentioned in this thread )

[urukrama]

GCStar (http://www.gcstar.org/) - want to make a database of all your dvds, books...? This is the right app to do it with.

Thanks for mentioning gcstar, molgar. I've dowloaded it and it looks impressive and a bit more sophisticated than alexandria. For those who want to try it, I've found some debs here (http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/pool/edgy/3v1n0/gcstar_1.0.0+3v1ubuntu0_i386.deb). Strangely enough this did not solve all my dependencies, and I still needed to install xml::simple (libxml-simpleobject-libxml-perl libxml-simpleobject-enhanced-perl libxml-simple-perl libxml-simpleobject-perl) manually for it to work.

I don't know if it will replace alexandria on my laptop, but it is good to have it nonetheless.

[diskotek]

i'm using "coffeetalk" which is text based damn small software for who can not choose which coffee would like to drink at starbucks...:D

http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_952.html

i would like to change it in order to my local coffeeshop, when i would capable to do that :popcorn: haha there is sometime to do that...

[ComplexNumber]

the best dictionary that i've found is stardict. it allows ther user to add to the dictionaries (eg add computer dictionaries, geological dictionaries, etc). it even pronounces words where the pronunciation is unclear. other applications that others probably haven't heard of that i use include:
-solfege - ear training application.
-mtpaint - a paint type program.
-desktop data manager - great for screenshots because it allows you to specifiy a screen area as an alternative to capturing the whole screen.
-meld - an application to find and highlight the differences between any 2 or 3 different files.
-regexxer - a search and replace text tool.
-fslint- an application that finds: duplicate files, installed packages,
bad names, name clashes, temp files, bad symlinks, bad IDs, empty directories, non-stripped binaries, and redundant whitespaces.

[Somenoob]

Yakuake a must-have quake-termnal for those who find themselfs frequently using the terminal. It's in the repos.

[urukrama]

the best dictionary that i've found is stardict. it allows ther user to add to the dictionaries (eg add computer dictionaries, geological dictionaries, etc). it even pronounces words where the pronunciation is unclear.

Stardict can pronounce words? Really? I've never come acros that feature.

But I second this. Stardict is a great app!

[ComplexNumber]

Stardict can pronounce words? Really? I've never come acros that feature.

But I second this. Stardict is a great app!
yes, but you have to install something called WyabdcRealPeopleTTS.



WyabdcRealPeopleTTS package make StarDict can pronounce those English words. It is just many .wav files.
In Linux, you can extract(tar -xjvf) the tarball at "/usr/share/". In Windows, you can use WinRAR to extract the tarball and install it at "C:\Program Files\" or "Program Files\StarDict\".you can find it here (http://stardict.sourceforge.net/) near the bottom of the page.

[raul_]

I'm trying emesene now, and it looks really cool. The only downside is that it still doesn't support display pictures nor file transfer, otherwise i'd use it instead of amsn.

emesene has a really pretty interface

[jonty-comp]

Can anyone tell me the name of that cool terminal thingy that has no borders and integrates with your desktop? I've been looking for it, but I don't really know where to start. :(
I thought this thread would be the best place to ask as I consider it to be a Cool application. :D

[ComplexNumber]

Can anyone tell me the name of that cool terminal thingy that has no borders and integrates with your desktop? I've been looking for it, but I don't really know where to start. :(
I thought this thread would be the best place to ask as I consider it to be a Cool application. :D
do you mean this (http://yakuake.uv.ro/?page_id=7)? it requires kde-libs to run.

[rsambuca]

Can anyone tell me the name of that cool terminal thingy that has no borders and integrates with your desktop? I've been looking for it, but I don't really know where to start. :(
I thought this thread would be the best place to ask as I consider it to be a Cool application. :D

Or perhaps 'conky'? conky can be configured to display memory, cpu usage, etc on the desktop.

[adam s]

do you mean this (http://yakuake.uv.ro/?page_id=7)? it requires kde-libs to run.

When trying to configure, I get the following error :

checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!


Any idea what package I am missing?

Thanks,

Adam.

[fuscia]

dolphin - file manager for kde and, supposedly, will be the default file manager for kde4. it seems to me to be to konqueror what thunar is to nautilus. i generally prefer opera to konqueror as a web browser, so it does seem overkill to use konqueror, as well.

kmplayer - can use xine, mplayer and gstreamer.

[ComplexNumber]

When trying to configure, I get the following error :

checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!


Any idea what package I am missing?

Thanks,

Adam.
sorry, i should have mentioned that its in the repositories. use synaptic to install it.

[adam s]

sorry, i should have mentioned that its in the repositories. use synaptic to install it.

:)

[Sluipvoet]

do you mean this (http://yakuake.uv.ro/?page_id=7)? it requires kde-libs to run.

You als o have Tilda, for the GTK-Desktop Environments.

[cstudent]

I recently discovered cream. It acts as a front end to vim. I find it useful for quick single source file editing.

[wilberfan]

This IS the coolest thread around... And you do realize, don't you, that after I get Fiesty Final installed that I'm gonna have a Lost Weekend where I start playing with some of these new toys?!:lolflag:

[jenhsun]

Good Thread indeed.

[K.Mandla]

Did anyone mention Kazehakase (http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/web/kazehakase)? It's a GTK/Gecko-based browser that makes Firefox (and even Iceweasel) look like a bloated old cow by comparison. It also has a lot of customizable points that make it very interesting to play with.

I'm sure someone has mentioned it as a browser alternative, in which case I respectfully submit this as a sincere +1. :D

[jonty-comp]

do you mean this (http://yakuake.uv.ro/?page_id=7)? it requires kde-libs to run.

No, I mean like conky, but a fully-functioning terminal. I've seen it on peoples' desktop shots before, and I know the name somewhere, I just can't find it in my vastly inferior brain. :(

EDIT: It might well be Tilda, but it seems I can't get rid of the annoying beryl shadow. :p

[raul_]

Did anyone mention Kazehakase (http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/web/kazehakase)? It's a GTK/Gecko-based browser that makes Firefox (and even Iceweasel) look like a bloated old cow by comparison. It also has a lot of customizable points that make it very interesting to play with.

I'm sure someone has mentioned it as a browser alternative, in which case I respectfully submit this as a sincere +1. :D

You did, and i seconded it :D

[K.Mandla]

No, I mean like conky, but a fully-functioning terminal. I've seen it on peoples' desktop shots before, and I know the name somewhere, I just can't find it in my vastly inferior brain. :(

EDIT: It might well be Tilda, but it seems I can't get rid of the annoying beryl shadow. :p
You can do that with rxvt-unicode or with xfce4-terminal (and maybe some others); both have the option to turn off the scrollbars, menu bar and window frames. Then set the pseudo-transparency to the lowest setting, and voila! A terminal directly on your desktop.

[raul_]

No, I mean like conky, but a fully-functioning terminal. I've seen it on peoples' desktop shots before, and I know the name somewhere, I just can't find it in my vastly inferior brain. :(

EDIT: It might well be Tilda, but it seems I can't get rid of the annoying beryl shadow. :p

I think you want a tweak with the enlightenment terminal...wait while i find it for you

EDIT: Here you go (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=36811)
And here (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=278578&highlight=eterm+desktop)

[DX 00]

I'm surprised no one has said gdesklets. This is a very cool app that allows you to have all kinds of cool info on your desktop and they look almost as background pics. I currently have them monitoring my cpu/mem/hdd/network plus I have a really cool clock as well.

[ComplexNumber]

I'm surprised no one has said gdesklets. This is a very cool app that allows you to have all kinds of cool info on your desktop and they look almost as background pics. I currently have them monitoring my cpu/mem/hdd/network plus I have a really cool clock as well.
gdesklets is just starting a possible revival. whether it dies a death again or gets its momentum back is another matter. it went through a patch of being unmaintained, so all the developers for the various gdesklet applications went elsewhere, i'm told. its nowhere near as involved as, say, superkaramba at this present time. many gdesklets just simply don't work properly or don't work at all with the latest gdesklets engine.

[raul_]

indeed.. i think adesklets are more popular than gdesklets. I've used them both, and i ended up with conky

[Irony]

Xvidcap a screen video capture program, DEBs at;

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=81535

KeePass a cross platform password manager, DEBs and RPMs at;

http://keepassx.sourceforge.net/downloads/?PHPSESSID=3e88337a86587dd4b070f0efc59dd834

and executables at;

http://keepass.info/download.html

[AndyCooll]

Brilliant thread.

Krename - Takes the pain out of batch renaming of files.

:cool:

[Irony]

Tile your windows horizontally and vertically, just like in Windows, DEB file at;

http://ftp.unixdev.net/pub/debian-udev/pool/main/t/tile/

[raul_]

Not in the repos, but one of my favorites:

Hipo: An Ipod Management Tool (http://www.gnome.org/projects/hipo/)

[klytu]

I am a Chess fan and SCID is a cool Chess database program I use often. It's in the Dapper repositories but I don't think it's being developed any further.

[ice60]

tunapie is nice. it's like streamtuner, but also gives you video feeds too 8)

here's a screenshot of the first video stream on tunapie atm -

http://xs113.xs.to/xs113/07126/Screenshot.png.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs113&d=07126&f=Screenshot.png)

and Democracy Player is great too for internet TV 8)

http://xs113.xs.to/xs113/07126/Screenshot-1.png.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs113&d=07126&f=Screenshot-1.png)

catfish is a nice search frontend for find, locate and beagle.
http://software.twotoasts.de/?page=catfish

Desktop Data Manager - a clipboard manager, screenshot app (with various nice settings) and download manager, although i use wget for that.
http://data-manager.sourceforge.net/index.html
http://data-manager.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
http://data-manager.sourceforge.net/features.html

[Takmadeus]

gdesklets is just starting a possible revival. whether it dies a death again or gets its momentum back is another matter. it went through a patch of being unmaintained, so all the developers for the various gdesklet applications went elsewhere, i'm told. its nowhere near as involved as, say, superkaramba at this present time. many gdesklets just simply don't work properly or don't work at all with the latest gdesklets engine.

it is a shame.... I wish I knew how to program in gdesklets so I could finally make my own quote on desktop software.

By the way, I spent all day getting this to be done...

Agave 0.4.2 (latest) for Ubuntu Dapper!!!!!!

[jenhsun]

it is a shame.... I wish I knew how to program in gdesklets so I could finally make my own quote on desktop software.

By the way, I spent all day getting this to be done...

Agave 0.4.2 (latest) for Ubuntu Dapper!!!!!!

Cool, I like this one.

[Takmadeus]

Cool, I like this one.

OK... if you wanna help... ;)

Agave multipltaform thread? (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=393562)

[K.Mandla]

You did, and i seconded it :D
Oh, for crying out loud. :oops: I must be losing it.

[fuscia]

Oh, for crying out loud. :oops: I must be losing it.

if it's any comfort to you, i don't think i've caught you disagreeing with yourself, yet.

[SuSUntu]

tunapie is nice. it's like streamtuner, but also gives you video feeds too 8)

here's a screenshot of the first video stream on tunapie atm -

<snip screenshot URL>

and Democracy Player is great too for internet TV 8)

<snip screenshot URL>


The coolest application in your screenshots (and just plain cool) is Proxomitron. But I guess this thread isn't about applications that have to be run in Wine. :)

Anyway, nice to see another Proxo user.

[Rhubarb]

ffmpeg2theora
This nifty command line app lets you easily convert any video that ffmpeg can read (which is a lot) into the lovely ogg theora video format.
It's in the repositories.

Sauerbraten
A 1st person OpenGL shoot'em up.
Cross platform, online multiplayer, easily configurable / tweakable, and is under constant development (expect a new version very soon).
It has a VERY powerful (& very easy to use) in-game map editor too, that supports online co-operative map making - once up and running, press "e" to enter edit mode, then scroll the mousewheel to see for yourself how easy it is.
It's not in the repositories.
http://www.sauerbraten.org

Yukon
Allows you to capture anything you see that's rendered in OpenGL (for games etc)
It's not in the repositories.
http://www.neopsis.com/projects/yukon/

mencoder
A very powerful application that allows you to transcode pretty much any video format into any other video format.
This is a huge program and has many many options. Type in :man mencoder" and you'll see.
It's in the repositories.

stellarium
This has been mentioned before in this thead, so +1 to it.
It's a great OpenGL star gazing app - great if you want to know where (insert your favourite celestial object here) is at any given time.
It managed to beautifully display the lunar eclipse that happened recently (3rd March).
It's in the repositories.

[ice60]

The coolest application in your screenshots (and just plain cool) is Proxomitron. But I guess this thread isn't about applications that have to be run in Wine. :)

Anyway, nice to see another Proxo user.

i love proxo, i'm using grypen's filters with the ssl certificates and DLLs to filter ssl too :D from the addons here -
http://www.proxomitron.info/files/index.html

the certificate has run out, but there are new ones from grypen's site. some people don't like them though for some reason i can't remember why now.

[Mateo]

I have to shout out elinks, a terminal browser. It's a lot of fun. I use it sometimes just because the pages load faster, and I'm more likely to actually read stuff instead of mindless browsing. I still can't figure out how to log onto ubuntuforums with it. Also, if you use the real terminal instead of the terminal emulator, it uses nice color schemes for pages. It's a lot easier on your eyes but still manages to look good.

[SuSUntu]

i love proxo, i'm using grypen's filters with the ssl certificates and DLLs to filter ssl too :D from the addons here -
http://www.proxomitron.info/files/index.html

the certificate has run out, but there are new ones from grypen's site. some people don't like them though for some reason i can't remember why now.

I'm a Sidki config guy, myself. I've probably tried 'em all over the years (I've been using Proxo since 1998-99).



Desktop Data Manager - a clipboard manager, screenshot app (with various nice settings) and download manager, although i use wget for that.
http://data-manager.sourceforge.net/index.html
http://data-manager.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
http://data-manager.sourceforge.net/features.html


By the way, while I've got your attention, I wanted to comment on Desktop Data Manager which you recommended (along with a few other people in this thread). One of my productivity complaints about Linux when I first started using it was its implementation of the clipboard. It just seemed very poor and ineffective, and there were no really powerful clipboard management tools. In Windows, I use ClipMate (http://www.thornsoft.com/); ClipMate's been part of my utility arsenal for years, and it is one of maybe 5 utilities I have ever paid for; I'm big on freeware / open source in Windows as well, but the non-commercial clipboard utilities in Windows cannot approach the functionality of ClipMate (yet most have a lot more features than Glipper or DDM).

Anyway, I've grown to be basically satisfied with Glipper, but I'm always open for something better. So, in this thread, I saw DDM mentioned (multiple times), and I decided to give it a try. However it seems pretty buggy, so I'll ask if you are getting the same issues (the following comments are strictly related to the clipboard manager and not the DL manager or the screenshot utility):

- DDM occasionally becomes a runaway process and must be killed
- the keybindings do not work, default or otherwise
- the Detailed History feature does not appear to provide detail of anything at all (maybe this isn't a bug, but if not, it certainly isn't doing what I intuitively thought it should be doing)
- DDM will not show up in the notification area if launched automatically with Sessions (although it does appear in the list of processes when launched this way)
- launching DDM from a terminal to get debug info shows multiple critical failures / errors, though it will ultimately launch and reside in the notification area
- several other quirky things

I installed DDM using multiple methods, and all presented the same issues:

- installed via *.deb created using checkinstall
- installed via *.deb using the package creation script supplied with DDM source
- installed via the pre-built *.deb supplied by the author of DDM

I uninstalled DDM completely and went back to Glipper, but I figure I must be doing something wrong since you weren't the only one to recommend DDM. Plus, I've watched the screencast on the DDM site, and at least it seemed to have worked for the author. :)

I'm running Edgy 6.10, 32-bit.

[Mateo]

i've always hated that in linux if you copy something and then close the application, you lose the ability to paste.

[AndyCooll]

i've always hated that in linux if you copy something and then close the application, you lose the ability to paste.

I too find this frustrating. However this is the purpose of Glipper or Klipper. Clipboard functions.

:cool:

[Aliarse]

Sauerbraten

I downloaded this earlier on today (before i read your post), its not bad, very fast paced shooter, unlike for example, americas army.

What i dont like however, is the fact opposing teams spawn on the same spot, meaning as soon as the game starts, some punk shoots you, could also do with more weapons, i only counted about 5..

My addition to this thread (if someone hasnt already posted it..) would be :

Tremulous. (http://tremulous.net/)


Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based FPS with elements of an RTS. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like an RTS. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning. The designated builders must ensure there are spawn structures or other players will not be able to rejoin the game after death. Other structures provide automated base defense (to some degree), healing functions and much more...

Its in repository.

[Mateo]

I too find this frustrating. However this is the purpose of Glipper or Klipper. Clipboard functions.

:cool:

you shouldn't have to have an additional program (that takes up extra memory and extra room on the panel), just for this basic function. If I needed advanced clipboard functions, like you get with glipper, then I'd get that, but just for basic copy and paste, that should be built into the OS.

[fuscia]

I have to shout out elinks, a terminal browser. It's a lot of fun. I use it sometimes just because the pages load faster, and I'm more likely to actually read stuff instead of mindless browsing. I still can't figure out how to log onto ubuntuforums with it. Also, if you use the real terminal instead of the terminal emulator, it uses nice color schemes for pages. It's a lot easier on your eyes but still manages to look good.

have you tried lynx, yet? after i read your post, i re-installed both lynx and elinks. i then logged into the forums to compare the two. elinks has a very bright background with dark letters, while lynx has a blackground with red, while and blue lettering. it was also easier to sign in using lynx. (i was going to take a pic, but my camera just ran out of battery power.)

[Mateo]

lynx is older and no longer in development so no, I haven't tried it. I will give it a shot now just to see what it's like though.

I was actually able to sign in to ubuntuforums with elinks, but once it goes back to the main page it doesn't show me as logged in for some reason. it might be an option or something else that I have wrong.

edit: also it sounds like lynx is using its own color schemes. I think elinks tries to match the page as closely as it can. you get white or black or blue backgrounds depending on the site.

[Mateo]

Never mind, I found out how to log in with elinks. It seems I had my cookie settings off or something. I'm using it right now and loving it. I tried lynx and while it's good, I like elinks a little better because the color schemes match the websites, whereas in lynx ubuntuforums.org, for example, is in a black background.

There's also links2, which is another fork of lynx. I haven't tried it yet so I can't comment, but I think it's supposed to have some features elinks doesn't.

[fuscia]

There's also links2, which is another fork of lynx. I haven't tried it yet so I can't comment, but I think it's supposed to have some features elinks doesn't.

you can do links2 -g and get a gui version. i was using it until i had too much trouble signing into yahoo. that's when i came across elinks. when i used elinks for the first time, i was stunned when i signed in here - blue lettering on orange? ouch! that's when i came cross lynx.

[ice60]

I'm a Sidki config guy, myself. I've probably tried 'em all over the years (I've been using Proxo since 1998-99).



By the way, while I've got your attention, I wanted to comment on Desktop Data Manager which you recommended (along with a few other people in this thread). One of my productivity complaints about Linux when I first started using it was its implementation of the clipboard. It just seemed very poor and ineffective, and there were no really powerful clipboard management tools. In Windows, I use ClipMate (http://www.thornsoft.com/); ClipMate's been part of my utility arsenal for years, and it is one of maybe 5 utilities I have ever paid for; I'm big on freeware / open source in Windows as well, but the non-commercial clipboard utilities in Windows cannot approach the functionality of ClipMate (yet most have a lot more features than Glipper or DDM).

Anyway, I've grown to be basically satisfied with Glipper, but I'm always open for something better. So, in this thread, I saw DDM mentioned (multiple times), and I decided to give it a try. However it seems pretty buggy, so I'll ask if you are getting the same issues (the following comments are strictly related to the clipboard manager and not the DL manager or the screenshot utility):

- DDM occasionally becomes a runaway process and must be killed
- the keybindings do not work, default or otherwise
- the Detailed History feature does not appear to provide detail of anything at all (maybe this isn't a bug, but if not, it certainly isn't doing what I intuitively thought it should be doing)
- DDM will not show up in the notification area if launched automatically with Sessions (although it does appear in the list of processes when launched this way)
- launching DDM from a terminal to get debug info shows multiple critical failures / errors, though it will ultimately launch and reside in the notification area
- several other quirky things

I installed DDM using multiple methods, and all presented the same issues:

- installed via *.deb created using checkinstall
- installed via *.deb using the package creation script supplied with DDM source
- installed via the pre-built *.deb supplied by the author of DDM

I uninstalled DDM completely and went back to Glipper, but I figure I must be doing something wrong since you weren't the only one to recommend DDM. Plus, I've watched the screencast on the DDM site, and at least it seemed to have worked for the author. :)

I'm running Edgy 6.10, 32-bit.

to tell the truth i haven't used DDM for a while, i have only recently reinstalled it on this new install and i'm using xfce atm (i'm using the xfce clipboard panel plugin)

however, i just complied it from source, all i can say is i will have read the install and README files and had a look at the outputs during the install to make sure i had all the dependences.

i haven't had those problems you described, although i use the mouse far too much and might not know about the keybindings problem if i had it. i had one problem once and that was one of the buffers wasn't working 100% of the time, but AFAIK it's working fine with this install.

the only thing i can say is you could try making a startup script and put that in the session startup in case it's being launched before the panel. -


#!/bin/bash

sleep 5 ; path/to/DDM
exit 0
save that somewhere, make it executable (chmod +x script_name), then put it in sessions. another thing is i can't get ubuntu installed on my hardware so i'm using suse.

OK, i just ran it and i do get the keybinding errors too :|

[Mateo]

you can do links2 -g and get a gui version. i was using it until i had too much trouble signing into yahoo. that's when i came across elinks. when i used elinks for the first time, i was stunned when i signed in here - blue lettering on orange? ouch! that's when i came cross lynx.

didn't the forum used to have an orange layout? currently in elinks the forum is white background and greyish links.

lynx doesn't have tabbed browsing though, does it?

[total wormage]

youtube-dl: command line program for downloading youtube videos.

_thank you_!

this helps on my 64 bit system, i don't have to boot 32 bit firefox this way :D

[total wormage]

i'm trying to put this list on the wiki (thought it was that useful :p) because scrolling between many pages in search of a random useful program is a bit time consuming

got a headache now so i'll edit a bit more later on :p

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Applications
under 'Best of the Rest'

[compwiz18]

_thank you_!

this helps on my 64 bit system, i don't have to boot 32 bit firefox this way :D

Also good for 64bit systems so you don't have to dual boot 32bit Firefox: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=341727

Flash in the browser.

[kowsik]

+1 for Exaile, Tilda

[fuscia]

is mplayer too essential to include? it's my latest obsession.

[Mateo]

i'm pretty sure mplayer (and exaile, for that matter) don't qualify for "others might not know of".

[Onyros]

didn't the forum used to have an orange layout? currently in elinks the forum is white background and greyish links.

lynx doesn't have tabbed browsing though, does it?That's the beauty of Fluxbox... any program can be tabbed ;) (you can also drag tabs around with the middle-click and group apps that way)

You just have to configure the programs which instances you want to open in a new tab instead of a window of its own.

I currently use tabbed xterms, tabbed leafpads, tabbed AbiWord, tabbed links2 (I must try elinks, too), you get the idea.

[Mateo]

true but that will take up more memory, since each tab is a seperate instance of the application.

[ramjet_1953]

I like pdfEdit.

Way better than the pdf function in Open Office.

Had to compile it myself and sort out the dependencies, but it was worth it.

Roger :cool:

[fuscia]

i'm pretty sure mplayer (and exaile, for that matter) don't qualify for "others might not know of".

i had heard of it, but i didn't know what it could do. a while ago, just for the hell of it, i wanted to see if i could do all the things i do with a gui, without one. i had lynx and pine but nothing to play all my music stuff with. i found mp3blaster for music files and cdplay for cd's, but i mostly listen to somafm stations online and couldn't find anything for it. if i'd known what mplayer really was, i would have been set.

[PartisanEntity]

PDFedit. It's in the repos. You can add text to pdf's, rearrange and add pages. It's got a kindof weird interface, but it's a really needed addition to linux.

Larry

Has anyone found this in the repos?

[stokedfish]

Why not just open the PDFs in KOffice?

[houstonbofh]

On the pdf front, I am amazed at how few people know about the cups-pdf printer. It is in the repos, and any thing you "print" can be a pdf.

[PartisanEntity]

Why not just open the PDFs in KOffice?

Because first of all I do not use KDE, and secondly I have a pdf form that is not formatted to be filled in on the computer, but from what I understood PDFedited allows you to do just this (i.e. add text to a PDF even if it is not formatted for input)

So has anyone found PDFedited in the repos?

[Waappu]

Because first of all I do not use KDE, and secondly I have a pdf form that is not formatted to be filled in on the computer, but from what I understood PDFedited allows you to do just this (i.e. add text to a PDF even if it is not formatted for input)

So has anyone found PDFedited in the repos?

Hi

Does this help ?
http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/text/pdftk

[Kuoi]

Hi

Does this help ?
http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/text/pdftk

pdftk is the only pdf editor I can find in the repos , or am I wrong ?

Kuoi

[Lucifiel]

Can someone recommend a good ftp client for Gnome, please? I didn't really like ncftp and File-zilla was so-so.

[jariku]

Can someone recommend a good ftp client for Gnome, please? I didn't really like ncftp and File-zilla was so-so.
gFTP?

[ButteBlues]

Can someone recommend a good ftp client for Gnome, please? I didn't really like ncftp and File-zilla was so-so.
Nautilus itself also can work as an FTP/SSH filemanager. :)

[helliewm]

I downloaded the deb file for pdfedit from the debian web site and then I had to launch it via the command line.

Helen

[PartisanEntity]

I downloaded the deb file for pdfedit from the debian web site and then I had to launch it via the command line.

Helen

Thanks for the feedback, do you have a link to the file?

[Henry Rayker]

More likely than not, this is the link...pdfedit (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/pdfedit)

[DigitalDuality]

d

[raul_]

AppArmor now works in Ubuntu! can't wait to try it

do you run a server?

[PartisanEntity]

More likely than not, this is the link...pdfedit (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/pdfedit)

Thanks! Going to give it a try.

[vnt87]

There is this editor that I really like: Komodo Edit (http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo_edit/)
It's free, but I'm not sure if it's opensource. It's a great code editor that features a very nice GUI that integrates perfectly into your WM, code highlighting and comparing for a variaty of languages, Firefox-style extensions etc. My only complain with it is its startup time, which is not that slow for an ordinary program but still quite slow for a text editor.
I still miss Notepad++ on Windows though, wish somebody could port it to run natively on Linux.

[DigitalDuality]

d

[jammodotnet]

WOW!
am amazed no one mentioned LAMP!?!?!?

$ sudo apt-get install apache2 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server phpmyadmin
details here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP

[kerry_s]

gtklp <- for those dang applications that refuse to detect printers, this will make them use cups, just put gtklp for the printer.

gv <- alternative light weight pdf/ps viewer, ugly but gets the job done

scrot <- my favorite screen shot shooter

emelfm <- the lightest(557kb), fastest, most programmable file manager, not the prettiest, obsolete, is rock solid though.

axle <- multi-thread down loader, combine it with firefox flash got extension and it's a winner

graveman <-burner, if you need 1 that doesn't depend on the DE this 1's a good burner, simple, takes getting use to the setup.

Dock apps i use in fluxbox:

wmdrawer <- if you just got to have icons, but don't want them on the desktop

Mixer.app <- simple volume control, controls master, cd, pcm

bbrun <- a very nice run program, i use bbrun -a

[forrestcupp]

dvdisaster. It's in the repo's. It will salvage all readable data off a scratched or corrupted dvd/cd and make an iso file so you can put the salvaged data on a good dvd. Also if you use it on a dvd/cd that isn't scratched, it will make a small reference file for that dvd so that if it gets scratched in the future, it can read the readable material, and fix the rest with the reference. Pretty handy.

[finferflu]

How about checkgmail? It's a gmail mail checker that sits in the system tray and pops up a little window (like Sonata, for instance), when you get a new message, saying:


New mail from <sender>

And if you hover over it you can see a small preview of all the unread emails.

If you're not using Beryl, you can also archive or delete mails from the system tray, but with Beryl it doesn't work, however if you just click on it, it opens Gmail in your favourite browser ;)

[SuSUntu]

emelfm <- the lightest(557kb), fastest, most programmable file manager, not the prettiest, obsolete, is rock solid though.


You seem to know your apps, so you must be aware of EmelFM2 and likely have perfectly legit reasons for sticking with EmelFM. It's a nice file manager.

However, for those that may not be aware, EmelFM2 is available. It's prettier (that's a relative assessment) and it's in active development. The latest version (0.3.3) was released 2007-03-20.

I've been using it for quite a while, and I currently have 0.3.2 installed with no issues on Edgy 6.10.

http://emelfm2.net/emelFM2

[SuSUntu]

dvdisaster. It's in the repo's. It will salvage all readable data off a scratched or corrupted dvd/cd and make an iso file so you can put the salvaged data on a good dvd. Also if you use it on a dvd/cd that isn't scratched, it will make a small reference file for that dvd so that if it gets scratched in the future, it can read the readable material, and fix the rest with the reference. Pretty handy.

Here's a nice, semi-long discussion of DVDisaster vs. PAR over at the HydrogenAudio forum:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=51536&st=0

It's civil and has lots of direct and tangential info relative to data recovery methods. I've seen similar discussions before (probably at CDFreaks), but I remembered the HA thread specifically because it is fairly recent (Jan 07).

Anyway, thought potential users of DVDisaster might want some more info since the topic can be pretty technical.

[SuSUntu]

There is this editor that I really like: Komodo Edit (http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo_edit/)
It's free, but I'm not sure if it's opensource. It's a great code editor that features a very nice GUI that integrates perfectly into your WM, code highlighting and comparing for a variaty of languages, Firefox-style extensions etc. My only complain with it is its startup time, which is not that slow for an ordinary program but still quite slow for a text editor.
I still miss Notepad++ on Windows though, wish somebody could port it to run natively on Linux.

Thanks very much for that link. I consider myself to be a rabid software enthusiast and try to seek out all the best for a given platform. I've pretty much worn out the nooks and crannies over the years with Windows, and I know most of the very best freeware text editors for that OS.

I mostly use ConTEXT, SciTE, and HTML-Kit on the Windows side, but I occasionally use MetaPad (notepad replacement), PSPad, and Crimson Editor.

On Linux, I have:

- Eclipse with PHP, PERL, JAVA and SubVersion support plugins - too cumbersome for smaller projects, and I generally have an aversion to (or bias against) JAVA-based applications

- SciTE - nice, powerful, simple and to the point, great for quick projects or as your main text / code file viewer

- Gedit - okay with various plug-ins installed (project, spellchecker, etc.) but like most Gnome apps, even with the plug-ins, its pretty stripped-down, feature-wise

- Scribes - for some people, it might be a Gnome replacement for SciTE, but it's not as customizable and doesn't have tabs (every file has to be opened in a separate window and that gets pretty messy). I can't use it.

I just downloaded and installed Komodo and it looks like a very close drop-in replacement for ConTEXT (if its really good enough, it might become a replacement for ConTEXT for my work in Windows). I do get your point about slight startup sluggishness, but I may be able to live with that if it proves itself in use. Gedit on the other hand can be kind of slow starting up with several plug-ins installed (relative to what one would expect from a simple text editor), yet I don't feel like its feature-set warrants the slowness.

I'm surprised I've never seen or heard of Komodo, though its likely because of the closed-nature of the code and the licensing for the IDE version. That doesn't bother me, especially since I have tried the OSS alternatives, even the KDE stuff (more alternatives welcome), and so far I'm dissatisfied. Anyway, I've got a little project I'm working on now that had me searching for this very type of application again, so, thanks for pointing this one out. Hopefully it's stable in use. If it is, its a keeper.

[MontanaMax]

I've learned about a handfull of great new tools from this thread - thanks everyone.

One app that I use daily but haven't seen mentioned yet is TrueCrypt

http://www.truecrypt.org/

It's an excellent open source encryption program that has plausible deniability features, and works just fine with Edgy and that unfortunate Windows based machine that just won't go away for whatever reason.

[zoetrope666]

I just found 'Tomboy Notes' tonight on Dapper, and I love it. It'll be so useful for work. Now I'm just stuck as to how I update it to the most recent version - mine is like the 3.something version that comes installed as default I think - not quite sure how to update it (the latest versions are in the 6.0's)

It's quite a simple app, but in this case simple is good, because you can use it really quickly and easily to jot down ideas and reminders. I like it.

[kerry_s]

You seem to know your apps, so you must be aware of EmelFM2 and likely have perfectly legit reasons for sticking with EmelFM. It's a nice file manager.

However, for those that may not be aware, EmelFM2 is available. It's prettier (that's a relative assessment) and it's in active development. The latest version (0.3.3) was released 2007-03-20.

I've been using it for quite a while, and I currently have 0.3.2 installed with no issues on Edgy 6.10.

http://emelfm2.net/emelFM2


Yeah, emelfm2 was just buggy as hell for me, on top of that it's bigger and slower. I gave it a shot for a week but the crashing for no reason would just **** me off. I also don't like how emelfm2 does the settings, in emelfm it's dirt simple and i believe simple is better. :) I know emelfm is getting on in it's years, but it still solid as a rock, i've even used it to rescue data from corrupted drives where other file managers would just choke up. So i figure as long as it still works i'll use it.

[dannyboy79]

gxiso = gtk application used to extract XBOX iso files. also is suppose to be able to upload the extracted files right into your xbox but I haven't gotten that part to work. I have read that it may be do to avalaunch's ftp server since it really doesn't abide by the ftp standards and it has some kind of turbo thing enabled (yes I have tried disabling that avalaunch feature but to no avail). i just use it to extract the xbox iso to my hard drive, then simply ftp the contents using gftp or samba. great for backing up your own personal games and then restoring them to xbob hard drive.

[SuSUntu]

Yeah, emelfm2 was just buggy as hell for me, on top of that it's bigger and slower. I gave it a shot for a week but the crashing for no reason would just **** me off.

Hmm. I don't recall a single crash through several versions of EmelFM2 and Ubuntu / Linux. However, I don't use it as my primary file manager and there are tons of features and customizations that I may not have touched (or at least rarely touch) that you might have used, and those may be the very things causing the issues. I'll keep a closer eye out for any goofiness. I'll also give EmelFM another shot.



I also don't like how emelfm2 does the settings, in emelfm it's dirt simple and i believe simple is better. :)


There is a bewildering amount of tweaking that can be done with EmelFM2 ... and the config file reflects that. But otherwise, it's just your basic text file in ~/.config/emelfm2 (and /root/.config/emelfm2 if you run it with sudo).

[buddyrandom]

_thank you_!

this helps on my 64 bit system, i don't have to boot 32 bit firefox this way :D

see: nspluginwrapper

[Lucifiel]

Nautilus itself also can work as an FTP/SSH filemanager. :)

Wow, really? Hmmm... do you mean that with Feisty(does this include Edgy too?), I can log into another ftp via the "location" area? Interesting!

[Lucifiel]

gFTP?

Thank you, will give that a shot! :)

[rjz35]

orpheus, command line mp3 player, you can run it in a different TTY. for example ctrl alt f2. this way you can play around with your xorg.conf etc.etc. without interupting the music. it's in the repos. i.ve read it somewhere so it's not mine 2 cents.

[Mateo]

you mess around with your xorg.conf settings often? ;)

[finferflu]

Ah! that reminds me of MPD and MPC, the music player daemon, which doesn't depend on the X session, and even allows you to play music remotely, I use it in combination with Sonata or Gmpc, GUI clients to manage the music database. So coool!

Screenshot attached. I have to :D
Note that it's borderless, as I couldn't find a way to take a picture of the borders...

[Mateo]

that's good for people who play music all the time. but someone like me, I don't listen to music but every once in a while, so having a music player running all the time isn't worth the RAM it takes up.

[rsambuca]

that's good for people who play music all the time. but someone like me, I don't listen to music but every once in a while, so having a music player running all the time isn't worth the RAM it takes up.

How much ram does it use? and how much do you have?

[Mateo]

not sure, but i'm guessing it uses more than 0mb of RAM. ;)

[Swab]

View Your Mind (vym in the repos) is an extremely cool mind mapping application. Great for organising thoughts and so on. One extremely cool feature is the ability to export mind maps as OpenOffice.org Impress presentations. Give it a go!

[finferflu]

that's good for people who play music all the time. but someone like me, I don't listen to music but every once in a while, so having a music player running all the time isn't worth the RAM it takes up.
Actually MPD takes much less RAM than any ordinary X player, you can even start music through command line, using mpc. Sonata and Gmpc are both very lightweight, more than, say, xmms, or Banshee, and players able to manage your whole database.

[ubuntu27]

A program that nobody has mentioend yet:

GJITEN (http://gjiten.sourceforge.net/)

*It's a Japanese-English/English-Japanese dictionary.
*There is also Kanji dictionary.
*It's for Gnome :P

It's in the repositories.


sudo aptitude install gjiten


COMIX (http://comix.sourceforge.net/)

Image Viwer
Manga/ComicBook Reader.

*Reads image files (bmp, jpeg) from withing compressed file formats (zip, etc)

Also in the repository.

[BLTicklemonster]

tunapie is nice. it's like streamtuner, but also gives you video feeds too 8)



Nice, but I can't watch a single video on it. What gives? I either get

could not determine type of stream

or

I don't have permission


or


ffdemux_nsv: Element doesn't implement handling of this stream. Please file a bug.



*edit: resolved. I changed the default video player to mplayer.

[tbodine]

Seahorse
-- Manage SSH & GPG keys

[vnt87]

Another nifty tool here: JDiskReport (http://jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/index.html)

It scans a folder tree and show you a graphical presentation of how much space each folder are using. I've attached a screenshot below.

A .deb package for Ubuntu can be found on getdeb.net if I recall correctly.

[picpak]

that's good for people who play music all the time. but someone like me, I don't listen to music but every once in a while, so having a music player running all the time isn't worth the RAM it takes up.

I'm on a computer with 128MB RAM and it hardly uses any memory. I don't even use a GUI for it, just the multimedia keys. I also have it set to display the song I'm playing in Conky.

[Onyros]

I've been meaning to write about Grip ever since I first replied to this thread, but somehow always forgot about it (that's what happens when you take something for granted).

In my good ol' Windows days, I used Exact Audio Copy; when messing around with Ubuntu, kept on using EAC (through WINE) and then, one glorious day found out about (a beautiful alliteration, makes me wanna sing and all)... Grip (e.g., + LAME, for mp3).

No need to use WINo apps with that, especially if one keeps one's CD's pretty much untouched after first ripping them to whatever you want to rip them to. Don't really know about EAC's superiority in terms of error/scratch correction, but I recommend Grip for the average user and for the audiophile alike. It's a pleasure to use, too. I find it better to use than CDex or EAC, for that matter.

Also, there have been people mentioning Geany, and I must give a +1 to that, as well.

[Henry Rayker]

Ah! that reminds me of MPD and MPC, the music player daemon, which doesn't depend on the X session, and even allows you to play music remotely, I use it in combination with Sonata or Gmpc, GUI clients to manage the music database. So coool!

Screenshot attached. I have to :D
Note that it's borderless, as I couldn't find a way to take a picture of the borders...

Wow. I just got MPD and found ncmpc, an ncurses based frontend. I had been wondering what I should use for my music player (I don't like Amarok...it's way too big, Audacious and Xmms were close, but both had some issues...) This solves it. I think I love ncurses based things...

naim, here I come...again...it's a neat concept, the whole text based instant messenger, I just need to take the time to get used to it, I think...

[sunexplodes]

that's good for people who play music all the time. but someone like me, I don't listen to music but every once in a while, so having a music player running all the time isn't worth the RAM it takes up.

I just checked, and mpd/mpc take up less than 2 megs of ram when not in use. And if you map the commands to keyboard shortcuts, there's less need for a frontend. It's actually pretty good for even light use.

[urukrama]

I just came across Incollector (http://www.incollector.devnull.pl/), an application to collect and organise various kinds of notes, quotes, serial numbers, urls, conversations, etc. You can tagg all your entries, which makes it easier to search for them, rate them, comment on your notes,

I never got used to Tomboy's way of doing things, and find Incollector's approach much more pleasing and practical.

You can find a deb package for Dapper here (http://www.getdeb.net/download.php?release=79&fpos=0).

[M$LOL]

I second SciTE, really good editor.

[finferflu]

I've just discovered Globulation 2 in the repositories. I'm actually still going through the tutorial, but I'm already enjoying it sooo much! It's a strategy game on the lines of Age of Empires, but with new concepts. I do suggest you to try it out.

[raul_]

I've just discovered Globulation 2 in the repositories. I'm actually still going through the tutorial, but I'm already enjoying it sooo much! It's a strategy game on the lines of Age of Empires, but with new concepts. I do suggest you to try it out.

the package is glob2

[finferflu]

the package is glob2
Ah I forgot to mention that, since I discovered it with the Add/Remove menu. When choosing a game I prefer that interface, since it provides you a short description, apart from a range of games where to choose from.
Thanks :)

[Henry Rayker]

I don't remember if thunar as installed by the repos in Ubuntu has it (or if there is even an option), but yum in Fedora has a neat extension that allows you to rename media files (I've only worked with mp3 at the moment) using their ID3 tags. I'm fairly anal about these things, but tend to find that it is easier to rename a bunch of tags (especially with easytag or a similar tag editor) than to rename a bunch of files (even writing scripts sucks because, oftentimes, you have to still hand type the names)...This way, you type them once.

When you right click the file and select rename, a window pops up with some drop-down menus. The most relevant is the one that determines what information it uses. You have several format choices and can specify to use underscores instead of spaces or all lowercase or whatever.

[drfox]

I don't remember if thunar as installed by the repos in Ubuntu has it (or if there is even an option), but yum in Fedora has a neat extension that allows you to rename media files (I've only worked with mp3 at the moment) using their ID3 tags. I'm fairly anal about these things, but tend to find that it is easier to rename a bunch of tags (especially with easytag or a similar tag editor) than to rename a bunch of files (even writing scripts sucks because, oftentimes, you have to still hand type the names)...This way, you type them once.

When you right click the file and select rename, a window pops up with some drop-down menus. The most relevant is the one that determines what information it uses. You have several format choices and can specify to use underscores instead of spaces or all lowercase or whatever.

It IS in the repos, and it's a great extension. Thanks! :guitar:

Larry

[dannyboy79]

It IS in the repos, and it's a great extension. Thanks! :guitar:

Larry

well what is it called please???

[BLTicklemonster]

yum, isn't it?

[finferflu]

How about a ncurses based bittorrent client? I really like this kind of option since I basically use bittorrent to download music off Jamendo and download distros, so I don't need really advanced options. I don't mean that the one I have found is featureless, but it's plain and simple to use, even though it has no GUI. Good for memory economy ;)

Check out rtorrent in the repositories.

[drfox]

well what is it called please???


thunar-media-tags-plugin

Enjoy! :D

Larry

[Henry Rayker]

How about a ncurses based bittorrent client? I really like this kind of option since I basically use bittorrent to download music off Jamendo and download distros, so I don't need really advanced options. I don't mean that the one I have found is featureless, but it's plain and simple to use, even though it has no GUI. Good for memory economy ;)

Check out rtorrent in the repositories.

I beat you to it! Post 12 or something like that. But rtorrent is really great. I actually find that my downloads are a bit quicker (although I may be just imagining that). Once you get used to it, it's very easy to use and incredibly easy on the memory.

Oh yeah, BLTickleMonster:
Yum is Fedora's package manager...it's like aptitude for Fedora.

[richbarna]

AVI-OGM-INFO the same as Gspot in Windows

Info : A simple GUI/console program to get usefull information from Media files.

Supported formats are currently : AVI (*.avi), Ogg Video and Audio (*.ogm, *.ogg), MPEG Audio (*.mp3, *.mpa, *.mp2) and MPEG Video (*.mpg, *.mpeg)
And also WinFF video converter
It's got a gtk GUI for the initial video config then runs through xterm.

http://biggmatt.com/programs/video-converter/winff---free-video-converter.html

[raul_]

I don't remember if it was mentioned, but i like nicotine++ a lot. It's soulseek for linux. p2p client.

[Takmadeus]

Xdesktopwaves.... the eyecandy for the not so powerful PC

really... it looks really nice ;)

ISOmaster not on the repos but available in getdeb (for dapper)... I built a edgy deb if anyone is interested

[BLTicklemonster]

wow, xdesktopwaves is a pretty neat add on for fluxbox and icewm. Thanks.

[raul_]

Graveman is a pretty cool gtk cd/dvd burning application.

[surfjdh]

openarena is really fun

[sunexplodes]

I'm just giving this a quick bump because it's a good thread, and I'll mention the Transmission (http://transmission.m0k.org/) bittorrent client.

[guitarmaniac]

tuxguitar: the closest thing to guitar pro for linux.
I use it to read guitar pro tabs to help me learn how to play new songs. java based.
Hyrodrgen as mentioned earlier is also very good.

[OmniCloud]

AVI-OGM-INFO the same as Gspot in Windows
And also WinFF video converter
It's got a gtk GUI for the initial video config then runs through xterm.

http://biggmatt.com/programs/video-converter/winff---free-video-converter.html
This is what I'm trying to figure out? I installed the deb. file and I can see the app under my sound/video option menu, but It doesn't respond?? It's in the usr/bin file but I can't get it to work?

Also guys, I just got Unbuntu last week, It would be cool if I could get some how/to's on just how to get these apps up and running on my computer. I don't know what the hell to do with the tar. files??!!!

[nrwilk]

I love katapult. It's a KDE app which is similar to, and inspired by Quicksilver for OS X.

It's WAY less powerful than Quicksilver, but I find it to be quicker than using the K-menu to open my apps and bookmarks.

I really wish that it would get some of the more advanced Quicksilver features.

It is in the repositories, and I think it may even be installed in kubuntu by default. Just hit alt+space to activate it.

:)

[OmniCloud]

I get this error when I tried to run ffmpeg...

smilez@smilez-desktop:~$ sudo ffmpeg
ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libraw1394.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
smilez@smilez-desktop:~$

My winff works, but it doesn't convert anything. It just goes right to the terminal and then shuts off...

Im pretty sure I have to fix it manually....

Any suggestions?

[Takmadeus]

Astromenace: a fast paced very difficult yet fun side scroller shooter... with amazing graphics ;) - available at get deb

[hanzomon4]

I get this error when I tried to run ffmpeg...

smilez@smilez-desktop:~$ sudo ffmpeg
ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libraw1394.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
smilez@smilez-desktop:~$

My winff works, but it doesn't convert anything. It just goes right to the terminal and then shuts off...

Im pretty sure I have to fix it manually....

Any suggestions?

ffmpeg is a great command line tool that I use to convert my videos(dvd, avi. wmv) to something playable on my ipod. Tip - find the ipod video converter how-to on the forums to get a non-crippled ffmeg, as the repo version can't touch some codecs (legal reasons, I think)

[raul_]

centericq

It's a ncurses based multi-protocol IM (like gaim). It's a valid alternative for those with low RAM pc's :) and it's very functional.

NOTE: Don't be mad if you seem to send 20 messages and your contacts don't respond...sendind is CTRL+X and not ENTER

[finferflu]

centericq

It's a ncurses based multi-protocol IM (like gaim). It's a valid alternative for those with low RAM pc's :) and it's very functional.

NOTE: Don't be mad if you seem to send 20 messages and your contacts don't respond...sendind is CTRL+X and not ENTER
that's a very handy tool when you haven't got access to X, and you've got some geek in the buddy list :)

[IYY]

centericq

It's a ncurses based multi-protocol IM (like gaim). It's a valid alternative for those with low RAM pc's :) and it's very functional.

NOTE: Don't be mad if you seem to send 20 messages and your contacts don't respond...sendind is CTRL+X and not ENTER

I love this one, use it all the time.

[OmniCloud]

ffmpeg is a great command line tool that I use to convert my videos(dvd, avi. wmv) to something playable on my ipod. Tip - find the ipod video converter how-to on the forums to get a non-crippled ffmeg, as the repo version can't touch some codecs (legal reasons, I think)Ok...i installed the ffmpeg from that one in the How-I-pod thread...this is the error I'm getting now when I sudo ffmpeg

smilez@smilez-desktop:~$ sudo ffmpeg
ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libavformat.so.50: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Synaptic has these files installed (well I think that's from the old one though, How do i get them to work?) It says this is the library for files like avi. mpeg etc...Exactly what I need! Plz..need more help!

[tbroderick]

Why are you running it as sudo? Do you have libavformat0d installed?

[OmniCloud]

Just to see if it would respond...When I sudo Winff, i get the front-end. Sudo ffmpeg, get an error....

the Synaptic says it's installed, but the error says otherwise. What do I type in to do it manually?

[rmfought]

Audacity - audio editing tool

[wounded]

Heh, a lot of people have compared centericq to a text/console version of gaim.... Maybe they should try:

gaim-text

:]

[raul_]

Heh, a lot of people have compared centericq to a text/console version of gaim.... Maybe they should try:

gaim-text

:]

I didn't know that one. I'll give it a try