I completely agree with your points in the abstract but ThomasAdam, while new to posting on LQ, is not new in any other sense. Our post counts and titles mean nothing. I assure you his post didn't come from being a newbie, and I don't think he'll be driven away by my "harshness".

It hadn't occurred to me that it could be viewed that way, though, so I apologize for seeming unwelcoming to a newbie.

Oh, I wouldn't worry about that. Such attitudes happen when you have top-dog topple from their pedestal, or in this case wobble significantly.

-- Thomas Adam

You haven't read any of Mr. Thomas' postings in other areas; he is often exceedingly blunt.

ccliveterminal app for downloading youtube videos.

pianobar for radio.

Gmusicbrowser, is really the only music player thats feels like foobar2k.

uget -
http://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=uget&sv=

gtk2 download manager - similar to KDE's fantastic 'kget' but great for users who want alternatives to KDE excellent apps for various reasons (QT libraries, kdeinit etc).
Great for those of us using lite-er hardware with other window managers.



Thanks, slakmagik! I have been looking for a gtk2 alternative to KDE's kcolourchooser for a while now - 'gcolor2' excellent!

EDIT: binary is '/usr/bin/uget-gtk'
I had to 'cd /usr/bin && ls | grep -i uget' to find out how to run it after wondering why 'uget' was not found.

libaosd - on screen display tool.
http://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=libaosd&sv=

Basic usage:
much more config options available including colour/font/sizes/transparency and more.


I use fluxbox and this is an excellent touch of eye candy.

Works good with keybinded volume +/- and mute toggle.

I will shortly update this with keybinds and in-line scripts I use.

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You can see how it looked though.....I just thought it a strange thing to say...

unison to synchronize file systems (and, no rsync does not synchronize as it does not delete files that were deleted in one of the filesystems)

Tridgell and Mackerras shoulda named it rnosync, then. Any of the following should work for you:

rsync --delete{,-{before,during,delay,after,excluded}}

I generally use --delete or --delete-after.

It's possible unison has other nifty features or ease-of-use, though.

feh - cli image viewer
http://freshmeat.net/projects/feh/

I think his point was not that rsync doesn't do deletes (it clearly does), but that it works unidirectionally, i.e. master copy and slave copy.. The idea behind unison appears to be that both copies are considered equal and the synchronisation happens in both directions.

To my mind, dealing with the conflicts a bidirectional approach introduces would be more trouble than it's worth, and I prefer to stick with the master/slave approach and '--delete', or not, as seems appropriate in each case. I can see how some people might like the unison approach, but it's not for me.

I use mcedit a lot (Midnight Commander editor), a lot of people I show it to seem to have never heard of it before. A lot easier to use/learn than the likes of vim, but offers much better functionality than, say, nano. I really like it

Ah, I see: "rsync does not synchronize [bidirectionally] as it does not delete [or add or modify] files that were deleted [or added or modified] in [either] one of the filesystems [but only in the slave fs based on the master fs]". Thanks for clarifying that, but I agree with you that rsync's for me.

ttytter, a command-line twitter client.

http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/

Extensive set of commands, easy to setup and use. A well written user guide online.