GUI software

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Software > Screencasting >

(was on Wikipedia, deleted)
https://www.debugmode.com/wink/

Flash movie capturer. Works PERFECTLY, but has no audio support under Linux.

Works perfectly under both Windows and Linux. Godlike.

They abandoned Linux support for newer versions. Linux can’t record audio. =(

  • Abandoned by the original author. Reportedly taken over by a company, but was never updated; flagging as abandoned.

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Software > Application launchers >
Xfce >

Supposedly there’s an application launcher that comes with Xfce, but I’m not sure how to get to it. =/

  • Abandoned — 2008-08, the last updated was a while ago, so it looks like this project has been declared “done”.. so it’ll decay.

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Software > Terminals > rxvt >

(on Wikipedia)
http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html

A nice light terminal emulator. A Unicode-capable version of rxvt.

When I learned that aterm does not support unicode, I went looking for its replacement. It suggested rxvt-unicode, so here I am. See Unicode VGA font for the font I ended up using.

  • aka urxvt
  • It is not tabbed, use one of the /tag/terminal-multiplexers (I currently use this one).

    • Okay, technically it’s tabbed with the “tabbed” perl extension:
      \urxvt -pe tabbed

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Software > Terminals >

(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/materm/
was https://code.google.com/archive/p/mrxvt

A terminal emulator which allows tabs.

I could just use Screen, but mrxvt is so much easier to use. =)

  • aka materm
  • See also: rxvt-unicode (rxvt), which is also definitely light.

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