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bigsmoke · Post by **bigsmoke** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:16 am

ashibaka wrote:People who have comic books zipped up in any sort of archive would be advised to check out cdisplay:

http://osaka.is.dreaming.org/creader.txt

Thanks! I've been yearning for this ever since I wiped my Windows partition

sessionID · Post by **sessionID** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 3:53 pm

Let me (me too) suggest Amarok for mp3/ogg playback.

I has the best playlist/file browser system I saw so far, has nice osd support, you can send the whole thing back to the tray with one click (not like noatun), etc.

Check it out: http://amarok.sourceforge.net/

archimede · Post by **archimede** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 7:48 am

bigsmoke wrote:
hakan wrote: I'm searching for an WinEdt similiar editor for LaTex. Kile isn't bad, but it is not good at all. The editor sucks. It doesn't support automatic indent, no spell checking, and has some (minor) bugs.
You could give LyX a try. It is a very good LaTex editor, although I'm not so sure about its capabilities as a source editor. As a source editor I use VIM myself, which has great syntax highlighting. I must add that VIM is not a recommendation if you don't already know it and are short in time, though.

I endorse Lyx. It is very powerful and yet it manages to be fairly easy to use. I used WinEdt myself till 3 years ago, when I fully moved to Linux (fully means: fdisk, remove FAT32 partitions).

The TeX code it produces is not the best of the possible worlds but it is still readeable.

Verity · Post by **Verity** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 9:48 am

I'll have to toss ratpoision into the mix. It's great for when you want your gui and mouse to get out of the way so you can spend your time hacking at whatever code is important at the moment. It may seem awkward at first but it grows on you. After using it for a a day I found myself jamming ^T on windows, that was amusing...

Zinf is a very good music player/manager. It has style and functionality in a neat little bundle.

Someone mentioned, Xmule; I find xmule to be very slow. I recommend amule as a faster and lighter alternative.

ratpoision, zinf, and amule can all be found in portage.

AllTom · Post by **AllTom** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:02 am

flokno wrote:hnb worked without a problem here. except for some bugs.

Like what? I just recently stopped being able to move entries by holding shift and pressing the arrow keys. Updating hasn't helped...

Souperman · Post by **Souperman** » Thu May 13, 2004 1:52 pm

perry wrote:I used to use a program called XnView to for image file viewing, resizing, etc. Mostly used it when I downloaded images from my digital camera and wanted to put em on the web.

I stopped using it when I switched to Gentoo a couple months ago because there wasn't an ebuild, and I don't have the slightest clue how to make one. And I really haven't had a need for it recently, so I haven't bothered installing "by hand".

This kicks ass! My viewer of choice in Windows was IrfanView and I've been looking for an equivalent since I went 100% Linux two months ago and now I've found it. Thanks!

Souperman · Post by **Souperman** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 6:59 pm

Just discovered KeyChain, an app that helps you manage your ssh-agent process.

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# emerge keychain

then check out http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/l ... -keyc.html.

decrease789 · Post by **decrease789** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 7:05 pm

vmware is pretty cool

Titeuf · Post by **Titeuf** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 7:11 pm

I once looked deeper in noatun (part of kde).
It's like a very good mediaplayer with supper for winamp skins / freeform skins / plugins / ...
The freeform skins are comparable to winamp "modern" skins, except there aren't as much

Titeuf · Post by **Titeuf** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 7:13 pm

And another one is the dillo webbrowser (it's in portage).
It's a browser that takes only 300 KB, and it's extremely fast.
The bad side of it are: no frames, flash, and it uses gtk, not qt

denstark · Post by **denstark** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 7:27 pm

Titeuf wrote:And another one is the dillo webbrowser (it's in portage).
It's a browser that takes only 300 KB, and it's extremely fast.
The bad side of it are: no frames, flash, and it uses gtk, not qt

dillo has no css support

placeholder · Post by **placeholder** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 7:57 pm

Here are a few of my favorite apps which I don't think have much popularity.

GQview - Great GTK2-based image viewer. ebuild name = gqview
ROX - A lightweight filer which probably has more popularity these days than it did when I first tried it all so long ago. ebuild name = rox
Beep Media Player - Media player like XMMS except it uses GTK2. Don't get the one in portage though, get the latest 0.9.7 release candidate from the site and build it manually.
Downloader for X - I really don't use this all that much, but it is a nice graphical d/l manager for when you're downloading really big files. However, I just usually use wget. However, some people probably wonder where they can get stuff like this for Linux.

As for some of the other things mentioned, Xfe is much too like Windows' explorer. ROX on the other hand emulates the RiscOS or something like that, and is very nice compared to all of the other file managers I have used. I especially like the flexibility with setting the run action, icons for everything, the mimetype editor/creator, and the ability to hit `/~ in order to bring up a terminal in that location. Not to mention it is fast and lite.

frameRATE · Post by **frameRATE** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:02 pm

bluefish HTML editor... if it had FTP support like dreamweaver I'd be 100% set!

Madferret · Post by **Madferret** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 6:21 am

bidwatcher

# Tracks your eBay listings and items that you have bid on.
# Allows you to track auctions that you do not own and have not bid on.
# Snipe tool allows you to schedule your bid to be placed seconds before the auction ends, avoiding driving the price high early in the auction's life.
# Prioritizes updates according to the time left in an auction. (i.e. updates auctions that are almost over more often than ones that have a while to go).
# Clock on main window synchronized to eBay time.
# Runs in the background with minimal toll on system resources.

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emerge bidwatcher

I've used it and it works great

elias` · Post by **elias`** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:45 pm

frameRATE wrote:bluefish HTML editor... if it had FTP support like dreamweaver I'd be 100% set!

you could use LUFS for that.

sog · Post by **sog** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 9:15 pm

great little note taker:

Tomboy: http://www.beatniksoftware.com/tomboy/

saw it on miguel's page:

http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/arch ... ep-18.html

codergeek42 · Post by **codergeek42** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 3:12 am

I don't think it's been mentioned yet, but one thing that I find very helpful/useful is net-fs/shfs. It allows me to mount and do stuff with my SourceForge account over SSH. Very nifty.

Another little nifty thing is app-portage/esearch. Emerge this, then use 'esync' instead of 'emerge sync'. It will quietly do an `emegre sync` then update it's database, then tell you what apps have changed since the last time you synced. Then you can use `esearch app` instead of `emerge -s app` and since it's all indexed it's very fast. Just remember that you need to use `esync` instead of `emerge sync` from then on.

s0ulslack · Post by **s0ulslack** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:08 pm

Here are a few that I can't believe weren't mentioned, all make day to day life much easier AND better

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*  media-sound/mpd
      Latest version available: 0.11.5
      Latest version installed: 0.11.5
      Size of downloaded files: 1,101 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.musicpd.org
      Description: Music Player Daemon (mpd)
      License:     GPL-2

This is my daily music player, has tons of frontend clients (really, checkout the site) and works great. I find that gmpc is the best GUI to mpd there is, supporting playlists, searching, online streams and more... a really over looked music player

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*  app-portage/profuse [ Masked ]
      Latest version available: 0.14
      Latest version installed: 0.13
      Size of downloaded files: 16 kB
      Homepage:    http://libconf.net/profuse/
      Description: use flags and profile gtk2 editor, with good features
      License:     GPL-2

The description really says it all, makes picking USE flags very easy... and has great descriptions for each USE flag!

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*  www-proxy/privoxy
      Latest version available: 3.0.2
      Latest version installed: 3.0.3
      Size of downloaded files: 1,880 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.privoxy.org
      Description: A web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy against internet junk.
      License:     GPL-2

This is by far the coolest proxy ever, filters all the annoying banners/bad JS etc... for sure worth checking out!

Just thought I'd add these as none of them were listed

Cintra · Post by **Cintra** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:48 pm

Just came across the 'rezound' post, and find its the closest I've come yet to 'cooledit2000'.

For me, all it needs is something like cooledit's noise suppression and there will be one more app I don't need xp for

another app I just came across is 'krusader' the fm
http://krusader.sourceforge.net/index.php

mvh

Doubleletter · Post by **Doubleletter** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:12 am

mihochan wrote:I've plugged it before, but for my money you can't beat haskell, a lazy functional language.

Haskell is cool ! In University, we learnt it using 'hugs' but I prefer ghc (glasgow haskell compiler) with which you can compile the haskell files (read scripts) for better speed. Both are available in hugs.

As for overlooked programs, I don't know why Jin (www.jinchess.com) is not in portage. Not many people here are into internet chess maybe ? I'm thinking of writing an ebuild for it....

We have knights & slibo (kde chess interfaces to internet chess servers), but GNOME people haven't got much of an option other than xboard & eboard (I can't get timeseal working in the latter, and I don't like the former).

nedit is real fast, real good !

rxvt is a superb terminal, faster than xterm, albiet without unicode support. There's also rxvt-unicode,a clone of rxvt, with unicode support, though I've not tried it yet.

Gherald · Post by **Gherald** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:13 am

some good stuff in this old thread. try:

htop
basc
"rsync -a -e ssh /local/path user@server:/remote/path"

metoos for bash-completion (and bash-completion-config), shfs, keychain, screen, mc, unison

slarti` · Post by **slarti`** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:54 pm

mutt, screen, irssi, procmail, getmail, spamassassin, crm114, glark, clamassassin, msmtp, exim, hilite, detox, rxvt-unicode, zsh, gvim, gmrun, abcde, mpd

Daeluin · Post by **Daeluin** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 3:56 pm

rxvt is a superb terminal, faster than xterm, albiet without unicode support. There's also rxvt-unicode,a clone of rxvt, with unicode support, though I've not tried it yet.

rxvt-unicode is amazing, and supports much more than unicode. I find also find it much lighter than the others based on rxvt, and it's well maintained.
I'm surprised it isn't more popular, as it's so light, supports stable transparency and the xft anti-aliasing makes it very readable. I use it with Bitstream Vera sans mono called in ~/.Xdefaults :

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Rxvt*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=13

rxvt-unicode is a clone of the well known terminal emulator rxvt.
It's main features (most of them unique) over rxvt are:

* Stores text in Unicode (either UCS-2 or UCS-4).
* Uses locale-correct input, output and width: as long as your system supports the locale, rxvt-unicode will display correctly.
* Daemon mode: one daemon can open multiple windows on multiple displays, which improves memory usage and startup time considerably.
* Crash-free. At least I try, but rxvt-unicode certainly crashes much less often than rxvt and it's many clones, and reproducible bugs get fixed immediately.
* Completely flicker-free.
* Full combining character support (unlike xterm .
* Multiple fonts supported at the same time: No need to choose between nice japanese and ugly latin, or no japanese and nice latin characters .
* Supports Xft and core fonts in any combination.
* Can easily be embedded into other applications.
* All documentation accessible through manpages.
* Locale-independent XIM support.
* Many small improvements, such as improved and correct terminfo, improved secondary screen modes, italic and bold font support, tinting and shading.

And it's main missing features (which users request but are not (yet?) implemented) are:

* Complex script support, such as arabic or tibetian - more info is needed. (use mlterm)
* Left-To-Right rendering - more info is needed. (use mlterm)
* Tabs (although a supplied perl script implements a tabbed shell). (use mrxvt)
* IIIMF (Intranet/Internet Input Method Framework) support. (use scim)

changelog

kang · Post by **kang** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 8:48 pm

eix:
* app-portage/eix
Available versions: 0.2.1 0.2.1[1] 0.2.2 0.2.2[1]
Installed: 0.2.2
Homepage: http://eixwiki.unfoog.de
Description: Small utility for searching ebuilds with indexing for fast results

Ultra fast.

96140 · Post by **96140** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 12:06 am

The venerable, distinguished Pine:

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# emerge -a pine

Yes, that Pine.

Vintage?

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