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user

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unique x applications

Hi,

I am looking for it, not normal(by any mean) but strange applications.
any software links welcome.

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McQueen

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Re: unique x applications

Define "strange"....

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user

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Re: unique x applications

Define "strange"....

by any mean.
anyway, useful GUI or CUI interface in X11,
macro..

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tomk

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Re: unique x applications

What do you want these "strange applications" to do? What functionality should they have?

user

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Re: unique x applications

What do you want these "strange applications" to do? What functionality should they have?

nothing, but potentially for my own study.
long time ago, i saw some useful x11 utility, but i don't remember now.
That is first reason to had posted this message.

whatever but interesting features are welcome.

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smoon

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Re: unique x applications

You mean apps like Tempest for Eliza?

Tempest for Eliza is a Program that uses your computer monitor to send out AM radio signals. You can then hear computer generated music in your radio.

tomk

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Re: unique x applications

Now that is strange - good one, smoon.

user

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Re: unique x applications

You mean apps like Tempest for Eliza?

Tempest for Eliza is a Program that uses your computer monitor to send out AM radio signals. You can then hear computer generated music in your radio.

That is not what i saw, anyway it certainly strange ;-)

what i saw was some kind of copy&paste help utility, not sure but sort of that.

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phrakture

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Re: unique x applications

You mean like autocutsel?

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user

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Re: unique x applications

You mean like autocutsel?

sorry, no.
if i find the util, i will post it..

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jaboua

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Re: unique x applications

Temptest for Eliza is neat!

I couldn't get temptest for MP3 to work though

mac57

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Re: unique x applications

OK, these are not strange, but they are old X apps that more or less predate KDE, GTK, etc. These are the ORIGINALS, and some of them still rock:

nedit - text editor
xv - graphics viewer, editor, file manager
xzgv - graphics viewer and thumbnailer
xnc - Norton Commander style file manager
xcdroast - CD/DVD burner
xpdf - PDF viewer

On top of being original, they are FAST, since they are not burdened down by today's GUI standards and packages. They may look a little unusual to today's homongenized eye, but they work like a charm.

How about more of these? Who has more original old X apps that still do useful work?

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magnum_opus

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Re: unique x applications

i use Xfig.
shit first time i opened it i though it was ncurses for a second.

jaboua

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Re: unique x applications

How about more of these? Who has more original old X apps that still do useful work?

I used xpaint and the imagemagick "display" some before, but that's been a while since (last summer maybe)... "glxgears" works like a charm, I dunno how old it is though... I often play xevil, it's old with no special toolkits or the most fancy graphics - just plain X and C++ iirc. But it's still one of the best games around IMO.

This one is on my list of something to try when I get some spare time:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/driftnet/

postlogic

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Re: unique x applications

xroach!

Komodo

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Re: unique x applications

Viewglob

I intend to write a CLI implementation of this; it's awesome.

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user

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Re: unique x applications

not sure this was it.

xclip
http://people.debian.org/~kims/xclip/

xnee
http://www.gnu.org/software/xnee/www/index.html

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Komodo

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Re: unique x applications

xnee
http://www.gnu.org/software/xnee/www/index.html

Appallingly unamusing naming for the components of xnee -_-  Poor show on the part of the devs.

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user

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Re: unique x applications

not exactly this is what i saw, but sure this is better than it.
probably, it similar this.
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/plumb.html

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