Whilst generally surfing around I came across a new launcher, which is similar to docky but called plank. And this
is what it looks like -
Plank is a very lightweight and quick to launch launcher, and easy on resources. Looking at the above screenshot of
plank you can see the ...
I’ve long been a fan of ‘Evernote’ and last wrote about it on 19-11-2012 New phone and Evernote
http://www.sharons.org.uk/2012/11/19/new-phone-and-evernote/. But today someone on IRC suggested that I have a look
at Everpad - https://github.com/nvbn/everpad which is a linux ...
This is a rather nice online music player which can play one tune at a time or download one tune. It has few requirements and can -
I’ve just updated fluxwant to ask you if you want to quit at any time, so now you can answer ‘yes’ or ‘y’ and it will
continue, you can answer ‘no’ or ‘n’ and it can continue without installing something, and ‘quit’ or ‘q’ and you exit
cleanly. So ...
I’ve just discovered GreatLittleRadioPlayer which has quite probably got the longest programme name I’ve ever seen!
But its a streaming radio player for ubuntu and fedora, but I’ve got the 32-bit version working on Debian testing, with
only one easily fulfillable dependency too. It can be found ...
If you want to have a decent status bar in fluxbox, then you really have several choices - tint2, lxpanel, cairo-dock, docky, perlpanel, awn, but which is best? Only you can decide, but I’ll try to show all of them so you can see what they are like.
Lxpanel ...
more ...Probably the best music player I know of is pogo, written for Ubuntu but as its a python script it plays very nicely
on this Debian box. It can be found at https://launchpad.net/pogo and describes itself as ‘Probably the simplest and
fastest audio player for Linux. Pogo ...
I’ve just started using skippy-xd which is a full-screen task-switcher for X11. You can get it from https://code.google.com/p/skippy-xd/downloads/list but it is ‘vintage software’ being released in 2011!
To install it is just sudo dpkg -i skippy-xd_0.5-1_i386.deb, and
then to configure ...
One programme that I use everyday is ctodo which is to be found at https://github.com/Acolarh/ctodo ,and its a simple ncurses-based task list manager.
They say that pictures are worth a thousand words, so here we are, ‘ctodo’ in all its ncurses-glory! I do hope that you ...
more ...I’m afraid that I’m addicted to trying out various programmes and desktops, and one that I’ve tried before is Razor-qt
which I’ve just revisited and its moved on and is now very workable, and I’ve moved over to it from LXDE. It is
currently showing ...
My scripts continue to grow and improve, and these are just the most recent additions -
# for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILESIZE=2000
export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%a %h %d – %r # "
bind "set completion-ignore-case on"
This is part of my .bashrc, and the export command ...Although I have a very modern and up-to-date computer with 4 gigs of RAM, I do like the desktop environment of LXDE, which has a very light footprint. I have customised it to my needs and preference, with a top panel for everything and cairo-dock in the bottom panel place ...
more ...Yesterday I heard of someone running MATE on Debian wheezy, which is something that I’ve been wanting to do myself. MATE is a fork of Gnome 3, essentially going back to Gnome 2 but updating it slightly, and today I logged into it. And it works beautifully! I’ve ...
more ...Recently I’ve been using various pdf tools to watermark pdf’s and generally play about with them. They are pdfForts
from https://github.com/sjau/pdfForts and have various tools, like -
This script adds a password to the PDFs.
Lets you edit the current bookmarks and apply ...
more ...The following short cuts will focus primarily on open windows.
This combination cycles through the currently open windows. This is handy when you have a lot of windows open and you constantly are moving from one to another.
This combination minimizes all open windows to the far ...
more ...Its easy to add programs to start when you start gnome from login, just run ALT+F2 and enter ……… gnome-control-center …… and then click on ‘startup applications’ and then ‘add’. Enter a short description of the program, and the path to its binary. Then close to bring you back to the ...
more ...By default under KDE, Debian 6 indexes files using nepomuk which can be suspended on the desktop, but that is only valid
for one session. If you reboot then you have to suspend it again, so I’ve been looking for a way of turning it off completely.
And here ...
more ...I’ve been using CentOS for the last four years and got to know it quite well, but I’d become stale, it wasn’t fun anymore. I needed a change, so I tried out Ubuntu, and Kubuntu as I like KDE, but neither really satisfied me. So I tried ...
more ...I’ve finally got Debian 6 set up the way that I want and not the way that the partition wizard wants! It wanted a / of just 350mb which was way too small for any decent work to be done on it! So, at the fourth attempt I’ve got ...
more ...I’ve moved over from CentOS 5.6 to Debian 6 as I felt like a change and wanted to learn more, so from now on I’ll be concentrating on Debian and documenting my progress with it, or not, as the case may be :)
A lot is similar but ...
more ...Dubious about replacing your old familiar Microsoft Windows?
Worried that you’ll be following a steep learning curve?
Then don’t be.
You can make the transition gradually as I did.
All the programs that I would recommend that you use on Linux, are available for Windows.
My recommended programs ...
more ...