I'd vote for viewnior. Nothing else but a image viewer.

Geeqie or Mirage or Viewnior (which are all almost identical) and if you would like the ability to sort photos into albums there is Picasa (but it wouldn't be considered "lightweight").

I believe Geeqie comes with the standard Slackware "everything but the kitchen sink" installation. At the moment I have Geeqie, Mirage and Viewnior open on the desktop and displaying the same photo. After looking through the preferences, etc., it would appear Geeqie gives the user a bit more control, that is, besides the thumbnails you can have a tree in the left panel. I might of missed it, but don't see that option with the other two.

feh

Geeqie works well. I use kcomic for zipped photos.

Some console apps I use frequently:

taskwarrior
vimoutliner
centerim
ncmpcpp
wyrd
newsbeuter
mairix
mu
nts

Interesting.
It has been a long time since I've looked at the data, but IIRC there is little to be gained from zipping photos, i.e., spaced saved, as jpeg, etc. are compression methods in and of themselves. I guess if one wanted to send a batch pertaining to one subject then zipping them would be one method of keeping the grouped together?

Yes, like for comics, or if you keep pictures organized inside archives. I don't really use it often.

Thanks for your suggestions. I think Geeqie is most appealing to me.

this thread is relevant to my interests, as i have recently switched from openbox to fluxbox, and have decided to try to forego all kde applications in favor of lightweight ones. ive found a wealth of fun stuff while doing this search, as well as just some programs that i use. im sure most of these you already know about, but i thought id toss in my 2 cents.

ive recently started using btpd instead of ktorrent.its a torrent client daemon, so it runs completely regardless of X being up/down, and stays out of my way, which is important for a torrent client. it doesnt have many features, but then again, i dont need many features in a client besides up/download limiting and the ability to send them to certain places. and theres a slackbuild for it too: http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.37/network/btpd/

for anyone interested in music visualization, you owe it to yourself to try out projectM. its the open source version of winamp's "milkdrop" visualization system, and is absolutely GORGEOUS. its a bit of a pain to build, but if you use an audio server like jack, its not too bad.
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.37/misc/projectM/

as far as music players go, im really surprised nobody has listed mpd yet. im currently using it with the sonata frontend, which even has last.fm scrobbling. sonata + projectM has provided me with the best music experience i have had to date.
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.37/audio/mpd/
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.37/audio/sonata/

when i had to convert my music from flac to mp3 for my ipod, i used this utility: http://freshmeat.net/projects/flac2mp3/
its a pretty handy perl script that will batch convert flac files to mp3 files.

screenfetch is the little tool to list some basic system info in your terminal, along with the logo of your distribution. you can use it to take screenshots as well. its what all the linux desktop modders use to take screenshots, i know of several folks here who use it already.
https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch

Xaos is a fractal browser which is included in slackware, and is actually lot of fun to mess with

a favorite game (if you call it that) for me has always been the powder toy. its a physics simulator with dozens of different things that you can move around and mess with. you can even explode and freeze things, and they have accurate temperature/pressure, which is pretty fun.
http://powdertoy.co.uk/

hope at least some of these are new to you, and that you all enjoy them!

+1 for mpd
+1 for projectM with jack

I use ncmpcpp with mpd - it has the ability to fetch lyrics, which I can then display over top of projectM (as well as things like currently playing, etc) using xosd_cat...

cheers,

Threads like this one should be stickkied

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I wholeheartedly agree

Several years I am using Ted as Wordprocessor. Lightweight, and still it does everything I need. It has a lot of features. For chatting I use Gtmess, a console based program that uses the MSN protocol. And as musicplayer I am satisfied with Parole, that integrates very well with XFCE. Small programs, but they do exactly what I need.

And I also agree, this is a great thread!

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nice thread, but the first tool i try (wmagnify) triggers a bug in the intel video driver stack, causing teh xorg server to seg fault.

PS: I find myself using mc (midnight commander) quite often, particularly the built-in ftp client when administering machines remotely

+1 for mpd (in my case with ncmpcpp)

- if you want to change your DE (or restart X) the music won't stop playing
- you can nicely control it remotely
- it does the job.