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medit is a great alternative to gedit. Loads fast, syntax highlighting and tabs, and very nice. I've just ditched leafpad for it.
And I hear that it will be going into community (thanks to WillySilly, TU extraordinaire).
Really nice and fast but for some reason when I have it start and open a file, two windows open up. one blank and one with the file.
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stonecrest wrote:medit is a great alternative to gedit. Loads fast, syntax highlighting and tabs, and very nice. I've just ditched leafpad for it.
And I hear that it will be going into community (thanks to WillySilly, TU extraordinaire).
Really nice and fast but for some reason when I have it start and open a file, two windows open up. one blank and one with the file.
Weird, that doesn't happen here.
I am a gated community.
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medit is really nice, although i can't open files in a shell like
medit foo.c
it works from thunar, but not from the shell.
and it hasn't syntax highlightung for many languages (java's missing o_0)
but it's a good start.
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I vote for ed in the best light & fast editor category. After using ed you'll think that vi is bloated like Emacs.
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Nobody has yet mentioned a light and fast emacs clone. Zile for the win!
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Firehol is nice light firewall app, not as light as iptables itself but easier to manage.
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Text Editor - gtkedit
Browser - Opera
Image Viewer - gimageviewer
Basic image editor - XPaint/mtpaint
More advanced editor - cinepaint
PDF/PS viewer - gsview
File Manager - XFE/Thunar
Download Manager - Aria
There are plenty of otherwise fast applications like XChat, Abiword, Gimp which perform poorly on my system because of the GTK2 toolkit.
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[text editor]
# Extremely small size
# Built-in file manager Kwas
# Spellchecker (using the aspell)
# Built-in search within files (using multiply charsets).
# Tabbed layout engine
# Multiply encodings support
# Code snippets, sessions and templates support
# The ability to open OpenDocument, RTF, KWord, Abiword, OpenOffice.org Writer files
# SRT-subtitles preview with Mplayer in a current subtitles position
# Text analyzer called UNITAZ
# Hotkeys customizations
# "Open at cursor"-function for HTML-files and images
# Misc HTML tools
# Brackets matching
# Wikipedia, Docbook, LaTeX editing support
# Preview in external browsers
# String-handling functions such as sorting, reverse, format killing, trimming, filtering, conversions etc.
# Bookmarks
# Morse code translator
# Syntax highlighting
# Drag'n'drop support (with text files and pictures)
# Built-in image viewer (PNG, JPEG, GIF, WBMP, BMP, SVG)
# UI localizations: English, Japanese, Serbian, Ukrainian, French, Polish, German, Czech, Russian, Latvian, Spanish
# Automatic text encoding detection for Russian, Ukrainian, Finnish, German, Serbian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Slovak, Slovenian, Latvian, France.
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OpenOffice/Firefox/AdobeReader fast and lightweight?
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Here's one that I like - Swiftfox. It's an AMD optimized version of firefox, and its blazing fast. To install it on a system that already has firefox (and you have to have firefox), extract the tarball and do a ./swiftfox in directory you extracted it to.
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Is there any difference with just changing your makepkg.conf and using the PKGBUILD of firefox?
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Is there any difference with just changing your makepkg.conf and using the PKGBUILD of firefox?
If your refering to compiling your own optimized version of firefox, I suppose you could do it your way as well. The tarballs on the swiftfox website are pre-compiled, however, and are pretty simple to use
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Thanks, that's what I wanted to know.
It could be nice to have a PKGBUILD for this so that pacman can handle it.
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Interestingly I find Firefox to be quite a bit faster now than it was, faster and lighter than Galeon or Epiphany. It seems as though the code that makes it usable as a library makes it use more RAM.
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i use abcde for ripping. It is FAST LIGHT and has no GUI-> everything i like
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Another addition
I use
WM(not a DE) fluxbox(the base like arch)
File manager -Rox(LIGHT, FAST, FEATURE RICH)
Web- links(non graphic stuff) firefox (for the rest)
editor- nano(fastest), emacs(not light but matchless)
archiver->i dont need one(i tar -x[j/z]vf <foo>
cdburner-> graveman( This is the only thing i tried)
Ripper->abcde(Superfast, cddb database usage)
music,audio,video->mplayer(1 for all, not all for 1)
pdf->xpdf(small,dependencies less,)
chm->xchm(the only)
wordprocessor->abiword( is there competition ??)
image management->gimp(rockin', a class of its own)
sound mixer->aumix(small and fast, sstable)
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My favorite LnF applications:
window manager: fluxbox (self compiled)
file manager: emelfm2
web: firefox
mail: thunderbird
editor: nano or leafpad
music,audio,video: mplayer or xmms
pdf: acroread
msn: amsn
wordprocessor: openoffice (not LnF, but whatever...)
image management: gqview + gimp
sound mixer: alsamixer
system monitor: gkrellm2
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The only trouble is that there's 7 different versions(for 7 different architectures)... not as simple as a single PKGBUILD.
Yes it is, because it is a PKGBUILD, not a package. So just one is enough, the others architectures can be obtained by edited the first one (for example just put a variable _pkgarch)
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I just made a PKGBUILD based on your suggestion. I haven't submitted it to the aur just yet, but I posted it on the forum here
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I read recently in Linux Format magazine about a new file manager called PCManFM which bills itself as blazingly fast - the magazine said it "just screams along". We have the package in AUR and it built OK, but when I tried to run it, it moaned about needing a package called gamin and just died.
When I checked the AUR page for PCManFM, it mentioned something about replacing gamin with fam and so I had hoped gamin wasn't REALLY needed anymore. However, it seems to be.
After some hunting, I find gamin in the testing library - how can I get this package. pacman doesn't see it, so I assume I need to add some thing more to my pacman config file. Can anyone point me at what needs to be added to access this?
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uncomment testing in /etc/pacman.conf and run pacman -Sy <package>
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pcmanfm will run without gamin, but you need to have the fam deamon running. Install fam (pacman -S fam) and then add fam to the DAEMONS= line in your rc.conf.
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Hmmm... no "testing" line for me to uncomment. Can someone point me at where the testing repo is - I can likely take it from there. Thanks.
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Thanks barebones. I gave that a try and it worked! Much appreciated.
I would still be interested in knowing where the testing repo was though, so that I could include it when I wanted. Thanks again.
Cast off the Microsoft shackles Jan 2005
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There should be a line in your /etc/pacman.conf that looks like this:
#[testing]
#Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/testing/os/i686
deleting the #'s should enable it. If it isn't there, adding it will enable it. However testing is called testing for a reason (especially right now) so you shouldn't enable it unless you're prepaired to fix stuff if it's broken.
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