Application suggestions

ftornell · 2009-01-09 12:16:12

Hi,
Have a new fresh openbox installed with Firefox, Thunar, Sylpheed and Sonata.

Now I would like to have some more application suggestions:
- A good text editor for openbox
- Application to handle backgrounds
- Application to handle screensaver
- Remote desktop application (RDP client)

And another thing, seems there are tons of folks here using urxvt, cant fint it as a package, whats it called and how to get the nice splash showing the Archlogo, WM-Manager, WM-Theme, Font...

Ranguvar · 2009-01-09 12:19:22

1.) emacs or Vim (or one of their forks or GUIs). There are no others that compare.
2.) feh or Nitrogen.
3.) xscreensaver?
4.) SSH + tunnel X11.
5.) rxvt-unicode. Look in AUR for patched packages, too.

Last edited by Ranguvar (2009-01-09 12:19:52)

glad · 2009-01-09 12:21:02

Why don't you try gedit? I have great experience with it and since you have firefox you have most of the gtk libraries ;-)

ftornell · 2009-01-09 12:21:04

Ranguvar wrote:

1.) emacs or Vim (or one of their forks or GUIs). There are no others that compare.
2.) feh or Nitrogen.
3.) xscreensaver?
4.) SSH + tunnel X11.
5.) rxvt-unicode. Look in AUR for patched packages, too.

Thx, need a RDP Client for connecting to some windows servers!

The Orange Peanut · 2009-01-09 12:37:47

glad wrote:

Why don't you try gedit? I have great experience with it and since you have firefox you have most of the gtk libraries ;-)

gedit requires Gnome libraries, not just gtk. My suggestion for an editor similar to gedit/kwrite would be medit. You may also look into geany if you use it for any type of coding.

ftornell · 2009-01-09 12:41:43

Thx ill have a look at both gedit and geany.

Then its just an rdp client to remote to my windows servers that im missing!

xisal · 2009-01-09 13:47:29

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Common_Apps

jo3 · 2009-01-09 14:13:04

rdesktop for RDP

Ranguvar · 2009-01-09 16:16:12

Check out PuTTy for a Windows client that can connect to SSH, including X11.

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