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Razien

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What programs to use??

Hey, me again ^^

So, my arch is setup and X is working good.

But, what should I do now?

I`m still a newbie in this all Linux world, and don`t know the name of programs that comes with a full desktop.
For example

A extract/compress tool, I managed to extract in the terminal, but i prefer to do that in thunar (I already have thunar-archive installed)

I just would like to have some more generic programs, that almost everybody needs in a desktop ^^
Oh by the way, I`m running openbox.

Sorry if I'm not being clear, i got a terrible headache =/

Last edited by Razien (2008-06-07 18:14:42)

Morra

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Re: What programs to use??

I have found a lot of interesting programs from threads like this: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=41168
There's also a small list of useful applications in wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … plications

wonder

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Re: What programs to use??

for xfce4 there is xarchive

extra/xarchiver 0.4.6-6 (xfce4-goodies)
    a GUI for multiple archive types

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Razien

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Re: What programs to use??

Morra, thks \o

That's gonna be a long reading =p

wonder, just a question.
Independent of the archive manager I use, will it work with the thunar-archive-plugin??

I love to just click on a file and extract it, without needing to open yet another window XD

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wonder

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Re: What programs to use??

don't know. i'm a gnome user

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Stythys

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Re: What programs to use??

hm...let's see what I've got...

- SciTE for simple text editing
- Teeworlds and Tremulous for games
- Dia, GIMP, and Xaralx for graphics
- Claws Mail, Firefox (spookyet build), mumble, pidgin, and xchat for internet
- Lyx for document writing
- Anjuta, Ecere IDE, glade, and Nvu for development
- Audacity, mpd/gmpc, and VLC for media

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fuscia

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Re: What programs to use??

squeeze is good and light for extracting archives.
urxvt is a nice, light, fast terminal. (combined with screen, you'd never miss a terminal with tabs.)
cplay doesn't require the same configuring that mpd does and it works in a similar fashion.
feh is a great image viewer and you can use it to set wallpapers in openbox.
i like to use pypanel with openbox. it gives me a clock and it can be made transparent.
i've tried a few burning apps, but i always come back to k3b. for me, it's worth the bloat.

Razien

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Re: What programs to use??

Hahaha, ok, thks wonder
Gnome uses file-roller right? Or at least ubuntu does... i think o.o

Firefox (spookyet build)

What is that?  Not the firefox, that i know very well =p
this spook.... thing.

[hr]
Oh by the way, what does additional packages comes with Firefox on Arch, since it doesn't use the official branding.

And, what program can substitute Open office presentations (or powerpoint)??

wonder

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Re: What programs to use??

yes. file-roller

firefox (spookyet build) : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15184

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Misfit138

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Re: What programs to use??

Ristretto is a terrific lightweight image viewer. I also use feh.
PcmanFM and Thunar are excellent file managers. (PCman also provides desktop icons if you're into that sort of thing).
I use gmrun for a run dialog. Tilda is my terminal; the best invention since unsliced bread.
Pypanel and conky for clock, and system info. For DVD stuff I use a convoluted array of stuff, since I can't find a DVD swiss army knife, and I doubt if one exists because I have been looking for 5 years- DeVeDe, k9copy, dvdshrink, xdvdshrink, DVDShrink and DVD Decryptor for windows via wine. I use Brasero instead of K3b because K3b, and all KDE apps, look like complete garbage and are hence too ugly to even merit their own existence. Xfce-mixer for system volume.
Rhythmbox instead of Amarok, (see above), for music.

What was the question again?

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elliott

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Re: What programs to use??

For DVD stuff I use a convoluted array of stuff, since I can't find a DVD swiss army knife, and I doubt if one exists because I have been looking for 5 years- DeVeDe, k9copy, dvdshrink, xdvdshrink, DVDShrink and DVD Decryptor for windows via wine.

I just use Handbrake to rip and DeVeDe to burn DVD's, never needed much else.

Razien

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Re: What programs to use??

Thks for the tips \o

I'll see what works best for me.
My biggest doubt was actually with the archive manager.

Rar, zips, tar, etc

But i'll se if that xarchiver works ok with those files.

wonder

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Re: What programs to use??

based on file-roller i needed to install unrar and unzip. i think xarchiver will need that too

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celettu

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Re: What programs to use??

Morra, thks \o

That's gonna be a long reading =p

wonder, just a question.
Independent of the archive manager I use, will it work with the thunar-archive-plugin??

Yes

I love to just click on a file and extract it, without needing to open yet another window XD

No problem there. Thunar / xarchiver is what I use. Works like a charm.

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X/ax

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Re: What programs to use??

Thks for the tips \o

I'll see what works best for me.
My biggest doubt was actually with the archive manager.

Rar, zips, tar, etc

But i'll se if that xarchiver works ok with those files.

Maybe to throw a xfce counter to xarchiver -> squeeze
It roughly has the same capabilities (if not entirely the same), but it'll show directories as directories in the window... xarchiver just throws all files (with path information - nonetheless, sometimes it's a bunch) at your face
Also, with squeeze you don't need to always select to unpack with the path information intact, xarchiver will -in standard- just dump every file in the selected directory

Just my 0,02 cents

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skottish

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Re: What programs to use??

My stuff:

from the GTK2 camp:

pcmanfm: file manager
gedit: text editor
Terminal: terminal
sonata: MPD front end
gqview: image viewer
gtkpod: I-Pod
easytag: music tagger
recorder: trying the communities newest DVD/CD burner. Looks great so far!
xarchiver: unpacking when it actually works
GIMP, Inkscape, blah, blah, blah. All the usual stuff.

from the QT4 camp:

qstardict: dictionary/thesaurus
speedcrunch: calculator
SMplayer: MPlayer front end
LyX: document processor

From the GTK1 and QT3 camp:

later!

The OpenGL planet:

Blender

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Razien

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Re: What programs to use??

Squeeze is without doubt my choice now =p
So much faster and it shows the folders hehe

Thks for the tips, i had some troubles finding how on earth to get icons working here, but now it seems to be ok.
For terminal, i don`t wanna try all the diferent flavors, so I'm going with gnome-terminal ^^

Does anyone know what program could I use to mount others Hard disks?
In ubuntu since I already had nautilus installed I was using it, but I don't want to install it again here.  Or at least the comand line to that.

Stythys

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Re: What programs to use??

gnome-terminal/konsole are the two fastest terminals anyway, so no problem there.

the hal/dbus daemons should auto mount most disks....if they don't just edit the /etc/fstab file.

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Razien

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Re: What programs to use??

Yeah, I have hal installed, it mounts my pendrive ok, but I have some erros ejecting CD's.

But with hard drivers, thunar doesn't show anything else the file system and my home folder. So I don't know how to build my second hard disk installed.

I can use fstab to mount one hard disk, but I sometimes plug another one for tests and stuff, and for those situations I would need a program to mount...

Get it? o.o
(I don't even know exactly what I write)

X/ax

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Re: What programs to use??

There's a plugin for xfce for that... (Since you're going the xfce way anyway)
I don't really know the name anymore - but if you do "pacman -S | grep xfce" You'll most certainly get way too much information, but it'll teach you a lot in the mean time. The name shouldn't be too difficult: it's a plugin for disks... (Not free disk space stuff)

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Razien

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Re: What programs to use??

I'm not going the xfce way XD

I'm using Openbox only, with QT, KDE, GTK, whatever suits me =p

Misfit138

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Re: What programs to use??

For DVD stuff I use a convoluted array of stuff, since I can't find a DVD swiss army knife, and I doubt if one exists because I have been looking for 5 years- DeVeDe, k9copy, dvdshrink, xdvdshrink, DVDShrink and DVD Decryptor for windows via wine.

I just use Handbrake to rip and DeVeDe to burn DVD's, never needed much else.

DeVeDe doesn't burn DVD's............?

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Razien

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Re: What programs to use??

I think it will be better to start a new thread about this right?

Yeah, I have hal installed, it mounts my pendrive ok, but I have some erros ejecting CD's.

But with hard drivers, thunar doesn't show anything else the file system and my home folder. So I don't know how to build my second hard disk installed.

I can use fstab to mount one hard disk, but I sometimes plug another one for tests and stuff, and for those situations I would need a program to mount...

Does someone knows of any program that can take shots of All (or at least 2) of my virtual desktops??
I installed scrot to take screenshots, but I don't think it can do that.

Linux is great for having 4 or more desktops, and I can take only one shot at a time =<

Last edited by Razien (2008-06-08 02:51:35)

elliott

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Re: What programs to use??

For DVD stuff I use a convoluted array of stuff, since I can't find a DVD swiss army knife, and I doubt if one exists because I have been looking for 5 years- DeVeDe, k9copy, dvdshrink, xdvdshrink, DVDShrink and DVD Decryptor for windows via wine.

I just use Handbrake to rip and DeVeDe to burn DVD's, never needed much else.

DeVeDe doesn't burn DVD's............?

I should have worded that differently, I use it to create them, I of course use cdrecord to burn them.

Last edited by elliott (2008-06-08 03:17:12)

fuscia

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Re: What programs to use??

gnome-terminal/konsole are the two fastest terminals anyway, so no problem there.

esecially with a transparent background and a really wide font.