Now then... what do you think of these programs?

[Psumi]

As shown below...

#### After mini.iso Main Installation -- DO THESE!!
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:killeroid/ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa
sudo apt-get update

#### Install The Programs, FINALLY!

## Do all the big stuff first...
sudo apt-get install xorg wdm openbox obmenu obconf menu tint2 pcmanfm usbmount

## Do the aftershocks...
## Do install stuff we need to have recommends on.
## ----
##                   ==== HP AIO Stuff ====
## Later on, you'll need to manually install your network scanner.
## Do so by using hp-makeuri IP-ADDRESS and changing CUPS to
## use the hp:// address instead of socket://
## CUPS admin address is localhost:631. Also, make sure that,
## Normal, Grayscale is the printout mode, don't need color,
## and Draft selects FastDraft through CUPS localhost addr.
## ----
sudo apt-get install alsa-utils hplip xsane

## Using no-install-recommends for stuff that has gnome-depends,
## since we don't want cruft in our system.
sudo apt-get install firefox flashplugin-nonfree smplayer leafpad pidgin gstreamer0.10-x xarchiver unrar p7zip-full unzip htop gtk-chtheme --no-install-recommends

this is merely a reference sheet, I don't plan to actually execute this file. I type out each of the executing lines by hand. Any programs you might suggest I use instead? I can't give up smplayer, I need it for the features it only has (parole and totem have those features as well though.) I also can't give up firefox for now.

For those of you wondering why I am choosing pidgin (as it requires gconf no matter what) over ayttm, it's because I can't compile 0.6.1 (which is readily available in lucid, but I have issues with lucid.) Ayttm gives me these errors, found in this post: http://georgia.ubuntuforums.org/show...63&postcount=6

[teresaejunior]

I've been using vim, and having a ... hard time. But I think geany is almost as light as leafpad and has many, many more features! I also do --no-install-recommends (in /etc/apt/apt.conf)

[k64]

I simply add the" ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ppa" repository. That's if I want to enable RGBA.

[Psumi]

I've been using vim, and having a ... hard time. But I think geany is almost as light as leafpad and has many, many more features! I also do --no-install-recommends (in /etc/apt/apt.conf)

I forgot to mention I need GUI mainly =/

I simply add the" ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ppa" repository. That's if I want to enable RGBA.

How to enable after adding that repo?

[teresaejunior]

I found mc to be better than xarchiver, 'cause I can preview the files inside them both, but xarchiver asks too many questions

Do you really want to extract???
hein, hein, hein???

[teresaejunior]

with GUI you mean vim? geany is GUI and fairly easy to use, but I'm digging deeper...

[Psumi]

with GUI you mean vim? geany is GUI and fairly easy to use, but I'm digging deeper...

I hate vim with a capitol H. I tried to learn it, and failed miserably, didn't even know how to exit the program, so whenever I used it, I had to quit terminal or restart the system (if I was in terminal-only) so I've never used vim since.

Also, see new note about ayttm.

[teresaejunior]

So I recommend geany inside X and mcedit out of it.

[Psumi]

So I recommend geany inside X and mcedit out of it.

I'll stick with leafpad, geany looks... too complicated for my tastes.

Plus, geany is about 2 MB in size to download.

[teresaejunior]

I also do consider package size, but when programming or editing web pages, an IDE helps you to identify mistakes, among other things. leafpad is like notepad.exe...