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

On 2024-07-12, Borax Man wrote:

On 2024-07-10, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 2024-07-10, candycanearter07 wrote:
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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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I'm sure I'm forgetting some here, but

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xscreensaver (yes i use it as my locker)

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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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To lock a system running X11, there's also vlock -n -a (At least in the
standalone utility I have in this distro, I think some other package now
also provides a vlock with less features? Or am I misremembering?)
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But with vlock you don't get the fun and interesting part of watching
screensavers.
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vlock on my system only locks the terminal.  Useful for a text based
terminal, not for X11.

"vlock -a" locks the "entire console display", -n creates a different
virtual console for vlock to be in while doing this from X11. I think -n
wasn't always necessary in the past, but at least the manual page
suggests it is needed now. (Either I'm misremembering or something
inside earlier versions used to do the -n part automatically?)
 
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Nuno Silva