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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux
 install?
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:20:06 -0000 (UTC)
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Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote at 07:16 this Sunday (GMT):
> 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):
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 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?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm sure I'm forgetting some here, but
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> aptitude (if on debian based)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I always have both XScreenSaver and XLockmore.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do they work together?
>>>>>
>>>>> 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!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Oh, IG I'll stick to XSS then. Do you run them directly from
>>>> /usr/lib/xscreensaver? (or libexec)
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.


Neat! I know you can implement that relatively easily with something
like dmenu.
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