Programs who make life easy(and cool).. post yours..

[chacham23]

I want to share with u some nice program that made my life a bit easier...

Tilda - great terminal
Avant - great panel
Conky - U all know it :)
and Compiz :lolflag:

that it I think.. so if u have more nice programs u r welcome to share...

[bufsabre666]

yes compiz of course

umm my number one is envy, without it gfx drivers take like 5 times as long
followed by OOo, pidgin, ripper x, and azureus


and of course the holy grail that is apt-get/synaptic

[smartboyathome]

Here are some programs which make life easy for me:

1. Enlightenment 17 (it seems to be at a stable point right now, not much to be bothered about)
2. Thunar (if I had to put up with Nautilus in Enlightenment, I wouldn't be using a file manager)
3. GNOME System Monitor (have any programs that have been acting up lately? ;))

[LaRoza]

0. Abiword (Light Word Processor, just what the world needs)
1. Opera (Fast, Stable Browser)
2. Thunar
3. Vim

[fuscia]

gimp gets taken for granted, i think. thunar is great (management without fanfare and is easy to use). nano's awful handy, too. streamtuner is convenient and quick. kscd just plays your damn cds, period.

[TeraDyne]

1. KOffice (Nothing in particular, just KOffice)
2. Flock (del.icio.us integration, blogging via Deepest Sender, and the web clipboard)
3. Amarok (I love the interface)
4. Yakuake (I love having a drop-down terminal just a key press away)
5. GIMP (Do I really need a reason? It's a great image editor)

[p_quarles]

The GIMP -- no, it's not Photoshop, but it's still incredibly powerful
Virtualbox
Kate
The Fluxbox startup script

[klange]

I have to say that Compiz does make my life more productive.

[urukrama]

Things that make your life easier and are fun:

Openbox -- the world's greatest window manager :)
Thunar -- especially with the custom actions
Feh -- great light image viewer
Notecase -- good to hold all my random thoughts and notes
Opera -- great customisable browser
Agave -- what matches this colour?
Krusader -- the best twin-pane file manager
Aptitude or apt-get -- great to install stuff; installing the Windows way feels very odd now
Ex Falso -- great mp3 tag editor
Skippy -- handy to switch between windows in a different way

And for the fun-only group:

Xstarfish -- good for when I am bored :p

[odiseo77]

*gnome-terminal
*firefox (I've read it doesn't work fine for some people, but for me it works great, I've only experienced a few crashes).
*Mercury Messenger (it's not open source but it's free. Sadly, most of my friends use the M$N protocol, so I must keep in touch with them somehow)
*Mahjong
*Shisen-Sho
*Ksame

EDIT: Oh, and I almost forget a very basic one that is absolutely necessary for me: amaroK

[selda]

gnumeric - great spreadsheet
gperiodic - periodic table of elements (I'm chemical engineering student, so very handy)
gedit with latex plug-in
epiphany - great, fast, and small browser

[adam.tropics]

gimp gets taken for granted, i think. thunar is great (management without fanfare and is easy to use). nano's awful handy, too. streamtuner is convenient and quick. kscd just plays your damn cds, period.

Given up on Dolphin these days? I'm sure you were a dolphin user?

Other than that, +1 (especially nano), along with OpenOffice which works fine for me.

[vishzilla]

1. Pidgin
2. Firefox
3. Apt-get
4. Screenshot/scrot
5. Workspaces [not a program]

[exjinn]

streamtuner ... oldie but goodie
xmms ...ditto
pypanel
thunar.. what nautilus should be in so many ways
pidgin
gkrellm ...yep I said it

current screenshot

http://exjinn.com/screen.png (http://exjinn.com/screen.png)

[DoktorSeven]

fluxbox
grep
bash (the scripting!)
mplayer
vim

[harold4]

Eclipse
Kopete
Nano
Kate
Swiftfox
Amarok
Thunderbird
LAMP environment

Edit: KDE :)

[legion1978]

hi
is there any clipboard tool like clipm8 for win?. i really need something more than that uncomfortable huge list of plain text from g/k lipper!!
any lead appreciated
thanx ;)

btw the best things around are quanta plus, amarok and xaralx !!!

[AndyCooll]

Many of those already mentioned (Firefox, Gnome System Monitor, desktops, Amarok etc). Also Tomboy, GEdit and Tracker Search Tool (now that I've got it working properly!).

:cool:

[bobbybobington]

in no particular order:
1.Songbird
2.VLC
3.Compiz

[Lostincyberspace]

Yay I am the first to post it:
Ubuntu

Since thats all it really is.

[tomauty]

ncmpc
finch

all of the cool cli programs that make linux even quicker and less obtrusive

[chris4585]

Yay I am the first to post it:
Ubuntu

Since thats all it really is.

I second this

[Samhain13]

ImageMagick! :D

[mrgnash]

Lyx (LaTeX)
Epiphany
Revelation
Rhythmbox
Totem
Evince

[Lord DarkPat]

Yakuake for sure,
Virtual Desktops(well, technically not a prog)
Compiz
Hate the GIMP, bought PS 7.0
Kate is the best text editor. Period

[djbsteart1]

firefox is in there. then there is wine, havnt got round o compiz yet but it looks useful. then there is amarok, i like it so much

[Victormd]

I took the time to look at all the programs listed and some, with discriptions, were very usefull, specially because I was looking for an mp3 tag editor. It would be nice to have a list with all the "Programs who make life easy (and cool)" with a brief description... :) I'm new to Ubuntu and would like to get as much out of it as I can! Great thread by the way!!!