Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux install?

On 2024-07-13, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote at 11:54 this Friday (GMT):

On 2024-07-10, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote at 09:31 this Wednesday (GMT):

On 2024-07-08, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote at 10:25 this Monday (GMT):

On 2024-07-07, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote at 01:10 this Sunday (GMT):

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Just wondering what programs (aside from the coreutils/X11 and other
elements that make up a basic install), do you consider to be a vital
part of YOUR Linux install?  What are the little additional tools that
you can't live without, or just consider to be necessary that maybe
others wouldn't?
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For me, its
    - fortune
    - cowsay
    - xpenguins
    - fvwm(3)
    - oneko
    - emacs
    - mc
    - zsh
    - asclock (using the FreeAMP theme)
    - PCManFM
    - star
    - urxvt
    - xpat2
    - xlock
    - links
    - most
    - lftp
    - lzip
    - xclip
    - screen
    - lrzsz
    - gcc/g++/gdc
    - nasm
    - locate
    - dar

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I'm sure I'm forgetting some here, but
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git obviously
krita
aseprite
screen
rxvt-unicode
cool-retro-term
audacious
mpv (and the ffmpeg dependency)
imagemagick
picom
vim
n30f
xscreensaver (yes i use it as my locker)
screen
less
rofi
bucklespring (optional)
mc (optional)
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aptitude (if on debian based)
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sidenote thank you for mentioning xpenguins i have been looking for a
replacement for AMOR (amazing misuse of resources) forever since it wont
compile for me under debian

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I always have both XScreenSaver and XLockmore.

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Do they work together?

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Not really!  I generally just use xlock when I want to lock my screen.
XScreenSaver, well, my kids enjoy watching the bouncing cows, they think
its hilarious!

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Oh, IG I'll stick to XSS then. Do you run them directly from
/usr/lib/xscreensaver? (or libexec)

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Its built into the menu for FVWM.  My FVWM config, which is based on an
old template that came with FVWM or FVWM95 has a menu for ScreenSavers
which lists the xlock ones and also for XScreenSaver to start it, or
start the demo.  Thats perhaps why I use them, because in the very early
days when I started using Linux, I found them in the menu entry here.

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Oh, interesting. XFCE doesn't have those, but the binaries are stored in
/usr/lib(exec)/xscreensaver so its easy to run from there.

FVWM has this thing called "pipe menus", where you can construct a menu
dynamically from the output of a program.  I'm sure other window
managers have this, but this means you can call xlock to list all the
screensaver types, then construct a menu which launches the locker from
that.