Little known gems and apps you use

tuubaaku · 10-29-2011, 12:58 PM

I'm wondering if there's a small, light-weight GUI utility for changing the system time outside of KDE or Gnome. I know about the date and ntpdate commands, but was looking for a GUI/curses interface to do the same thing, but without loading a KDE or Gnome control center.

rokytnji · 10-29-2011, 01:22 PM

Neonview image viewer

youtube-dl command line tool like cclive for downloading youtube videos in terminal.

jostber · 10-29-2011, 02:08 PM

cboard is a ncurses frontend to gnuchess:

http://benkibbey.wordpress.com/cboard/

H_TeXMeX_H · 10-30-2011, 09:08 AM

Not really an app, but very useful for GIMP:

Gimp paint studio:
http://code.google.com/p/gps-gimp-paint-studio/

Keith Hedger · 10-30-2011, 10:10 AM

Also not really an app but I've got this in my bashrc so I can easily chroot into any mounted partition

Code:

CHROOTDIR=/media/Rescue
enterchroot ()
{
	if [ X"$1" != "X" ];then
		CHROOTDIR="$1"
	fi

	if mountpoint "$CHROOTDIR" &>/dev/null;then
		echo "Chrooting to ${CHROOTDIR}..."
	else
		echo "$CHROOTDIR is not mounted"
		return
	fi

	sudo mount -o bind /proc ${CHROOTDIR}/proc
	sudo mount -o bind /dev ${CHROOTDIR}/dev
	sudo mount -o bind /dev/pts ${CHROOTDIR}/dev/pts
	sudo mount -o bind /sys ${CHROOTDIR}/sys
	find /media -type d -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -exec mountpoint '{}' \;|grep -v "not"|awk '{print $1}'| while read
		do
			if [ "$REPLY" != "${CHROOTDIR}" ];then
				sudo mkdir -p "${CHROOTDIR}/${REPLY}"
				sudo chown $USER:$USER "${CHROOTDIR}/${REPLY}"
				sudo mount -o bind "$REPLY" "${CHROOTDIR}/${REPLY}"
			fi
		done
	sudo mount -o bind /tmp/.X11-unix ${CHROOTDIR}/tmp/.X11-unix
	sudo chroot $CHROOTDIR
}

exitchroot ()
{
	sudo umount ${CHROOTDIR}/proc
	sudo umount ${CHROOTDIR}/dev/pts
	sudo umount ${CHROOTDIR}/dev
	sudo umount ${CHROOTDIR}/sys
	find ${CHROOTDIR}/media -type d -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -exec mountpoint '{}' \;|grep -v "not"|awk '{print $1}'| while read
		do
			sudo umount "${REPLY}"
			sudo rmdir "${REPLY}"
		done
	sudo umount ${CHROOTDIR}/tmp/.X11-unix
	echo "Left $CHROOTDIR..."
}