glances

NumLockX

2015-05-18

commandline software, freeware, glances, GUI software, liked, Linux software, live, open-source software, slpkg, software, utilities

IBM Model M

was freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/numlockx/
was home.kde.org/~seli/numlockx/

A GUI program that turns NumLock on. Great for turning it on as X starts.

Why ever numlock would be turned off by default is beyond me. It’s not that I can’t see a use for it as a cursor pad, but it’s a number pad. That’s just not “use for those keys”. That’s their damned name!

Seems to be semi-abandoned; it’s various project pages are gone
- Although it seems to be getting updates on Debian: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/numlockx?BHT-c733a286-7094-4da1-adae-ea2ecb81ab47.0

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unclutter

2015-05-18

freeware, glances, GUI software, liked, Linux software, live, open-source software, slpkg, software, Usability, utilities

https://sourceforge.net/projects/unclutter/

Hides the mouse after inactivity.

For such a simple idea and small tool, this is an important program for me.

See also Manually removing the X Windows mouse

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xautolock

2015-05-18

abandoned, freeware, glances, GUI software, liked, Linux software, live, open-source software, software, utilities

Software >

was http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/xautolock

Monitors X activity, and runs a program

I use this for slock to lock the screen after inactivity.

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slock

2015-05-18

freeware, glances, GUI software, Linux software, live, loved, open-source software, slpkg, software, suckless software, utilities

http://git.suckless.org/slock/
http://tools.suckless.org/slock/

A simple screen saver.

Combined with xautolock, this does everything it needs to.

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Diffuse

2015-05-18

diff, freeware, glances, GUI software, liked, Linux software, live, open-source software, slpkg, software, utilities

Software > diff >

https://sourceforge.net/projects/diffuse/

A GUI side-by-side difference program.

To solve the problem of file-comparisons, I need something far more visual than commandline tools can give me. Diffuse does its job spectacularly well.

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tree

2015-05-18

commandline software, freeware, glances, liked, Linux software, open-source software, software, todo, utilities, zombie

TODO – add my notes, and scripts

(on Wikipedia)
http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/

Displays sub-directories in a visual format.

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vbrfix

2015-05-18

abandoned, alien, audio editing software, audio software, commandline software, freeware, glances, liked, Linux software, media software, open-source software, software, todo, zombie

TODO – add my notes, and scripts

was willwap.co.uk (gone as of 2016-03-31)

Corrects busted VBR records in MP3s.

I most notably use this program with my rip-audio-from-video.sh script

Abandoned?
- I can’t find a home page.
- Debian reports this program as orphaned – https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vbrfix

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LAME

2015-05-18

archivism, audio editing software, audio software, commandline software, dead, freeware, glances, liked, Linux software, media software, open-source software, software

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://lame.sourceforge.io/

An MP3 transcoder.

This has been an essential part of my toolkit for as long as I’ve had CDs. These days I use it primarily to convert various other audio formats to MP3.

my rip-audio-from-video.sh script uses lame.

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jpegoptim

2015-05-18

commandline software, freeware, glances, image editors, image software, liked, Linux software, live, media software, open-source software, software, todo, Windows software

TODO – add my notes, and scripts

was http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/jpegoptim/
https://www.kokkonen.net/tjko/projects.html
https://github.com/tjko/jpegoptim

Optimizes JPEG images, performing magic to reduce size, or optionally stripping metadata for even further savings, or performing lossy re-compression for potentially extraordinary size reduction.

I like this idea, and it’s actually freed up a significant amount of space. Being able to take a 5MB file and knock it down to 1MB while maintaining excellent visual quality.. is astonishing