open-source software

Wirble

2007-03-10

commandline software, dead, freeware, open-source software, Ruby software, software, utilities

https://web.archive.org/web/20160220044903/http://pablotron.org:80/software/wirble/

wirble is a set of enhancements for irb.

Wirble enables several items mentioned on the RubyGarden Irb Tips and Tricks page, including tab-completion, history, and a built-in ri command, as well as colorized results and a couple other goodies. The idea, of course, is to fill Irb with useful features without turning your ~/.irbrc file into swiss cheese.

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irb

2007-03-10

commandline software, dead, freeware, open-source software, reviews, Ruby, Ruby software, shells, software

Software > Ruby >

(on Wikipedia)

This is a shell from which you can experiment with code. For a new person, it’s not important to care about this if you code in small pieces and test often.

Interactive Ruby Shell
See also .irbrc

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GTK+

2007-03-09

freeware, glances, GUI software, GUI toolkits, Linux software, live, loved, open-source software, software

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.gtk.org/

A Linux GUI toolkit.

Was GIMP Toolkit

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Jabber

2007-03-08

dead, freeware, internet, internet software, liked, open-source software, software, XMPP clients, XMPP servers

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://xmpp.org/

possibly coming later

The original name of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), the open technology for instant messaging and presence.

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Xdialog

2007-03-05

dead, dialog software, disliked, freeware, glances, GUI software, Linux software, open-source software, software

Software > dialog >

http://xdialog.free.fr/ ^[ 1 ] was http://xdialog.dyns.net

Simple GUI version of dialog, made for having few dependencies.

Seems pretty neat, but I couldn’t replicate a simple application launcher. I ended up just using dialog in a terminal window.

Footnotes[+]

^ 1	was http://xdialog.dyns.net

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kdialog

2007-03-05

application launchers, dead, dialog software, freeware, GUI software, KDE software, liked, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, software

Software >
dialog >

KDE dialog

It’s a lot more sensible than dialog.

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Devil’s Pie

2007-03-04

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.burtonini.com/blog/tag/devilspie.html

Devil’s Pie is for window matching & acting just like the KDE window actions, except heinously difficult to configure.

You probably want to try wmctrl instead.

The author has apparently abandoned the project.
See https://www.nongnu.org/devilspie2/

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rxvt

2007-03-04

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Software > Terminals >

(on Wikipedia)
http://rxvt.sourceforge.net/ ^[ 1 ] redirects to http://rxvt.sourceforge.net/ ^[ 2 ] was rxvt.org

A nice light terminal emulator.

rxvt is a colour vt102 terminal emulator intended as an xterm replacement for users who do not require features such as Tektronix 4014 emulation and toolkit-style configurability. As a result, rxvt uses much less swap space.