Some Useful And Some Not So Useful X11 Apps DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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SoulskinnerOG
It's funny, but these old programs really remind me windows. Maybe a bit old one. Like it shiped with ok programs for the time... And it comes with same ones, even now days. XD
In general, I kinda like that Unix have these ancient stuff in it. When you read about some really ancient (coz calling then -old- sounds newer), then you find them in your system. -_- At least, some terminal stuff.
Actually, interesting thing about Unix - they implemented some interesting ideas, which are actually, quite good and useful even now days.
-I understand that Linux is rather -nix. But it have many ideas from Unix, so in these types of situations, I prefer to call it Unix. XD
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It's funny, but these old programs really remind me windows. Maybe a bit old one. Like it shiped with ok programs for the time... And it comes with same ones, even now days. XD
In general, I kinda like that Unix have these ancient stuff in it. When you read about some really ancient (coz calling then -old- sounds newer), then you find them in your system. -_- At least, some terminal stuff.
Actually, interesting thing about Unix - they implemented some interesting ideas, which are actually, quite good and useful even now days.
-I understand that Linux is rather -nix. But it have many ideas from Unix, so in these types of situations, I prefer to call it Unix. XD
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Lawrence
9:46 Two screensaver modules I find particularly fun are -BSOD-, which is a collection of system crash screens from more different OSes than you have heard of, and -XAnalogTV-, which puts up a random picture as though it is being shown on an old TV set with really bad over-the-air analog reception. That latter one does an amazingly faithful recreation of all the crappiness that you used to see on actual TV: noise, ghosting, distortion, rolling, you name it.
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9:46 Two screensaver modules I find particularly fun are -BSOD-, which is a collection of system crash screens from more different OSes than you have heard of, and -XAnalogTV-, which puts up a random picture as though it is being shown on an old TV set with really bad over-the-air analog reception. That latter one does an amazingly faithful recreation of all the crappiness that you used to see on actual TV: noise, ghosting, distortion, rolling, you name it.
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Lawrence
A handy one for those doing tutorial videos on various apps is key-mon. This puts up a little floating window that indicates keystrokes and mouse clicks. Stick this in a convenient corner of your screen as you record, and your viewers can see what you are typing or what mouse buttons you are clicking, without your having to spell it out all the time.
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A handy one for those doing tutorial videos on various apps is key-mon. This puts up a little floating window that indicates keystrokes and mouse clicks. Stick this in a convenient corner of your screen as you record, and your viewers can see what you are typing or what mouse buttons you are clicking, without your having to spell it out all the time.
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vdochev
I had xscreensaver many years ago, but back then I didn't understand anything about GNU/Linux. Could someone please let me know if I can just install xscreensaver on a modern distribution and have all those screensavers included, or do I have to manually add screensavers? Thank you.
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I had xscreensaver many years ago, but back then I didn't understand anything about GNU/Linux. Could someone please let me know if I can just install xscreensaver on a modern distribution and have all those screensavers included, or do I have to manually add screensavers? Thank you.
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Peter
So many memories of my Solaris pizza box, I normally only sshed to servers for editing DNS and doing coding. Put the X tool set had a lot of fun stuff. Now it does look inferior to what we have today. Back then I installed linux from floppy disk.
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So many memories of my Solaris pizza box, I normally only sshed to servers for editing DNS and doing coding. Put the X tool set had a lot of fun stuff. Now it does look inferior to what we have today. Back then I installed linux from floppy disk.
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Tuncay
xzoom. You got this multiple times display of same area, because you clicked on the zoom window. You asked to zoom the content of the zoom window and it repeated it over and over again, and bigger and bigger with every step.
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xzoom. You got this multiple times display of same area, because you clicked on the zoom window. You asked to zoom the content of the zoom window and it repeated it over and over again, and bigger and bigger with every step.
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R.a.
Now back in the day before OS X and Darwin Apple had another Unix os devised for the Mac. Our Apple server in our lab ran it. You could open up the terminal and really have fun with these xorg apps.
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Now back in the day before OS X and Darwin Apple had another Unix os devised for the Mac. Our Apple server in our lab ran it. You could open up the terminal and really have fun with these xorg apps.
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nico
xscreensavers module GLMatrix provides a bit more eye candy ;)
also molecule is a nice module for xscreensaver.. you can add chemicals form a database, the defaults are pretty nice though :D
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xscreensavers module GLMatrix provides a bit more eye candy ;)
also molecule is a nice module for xscreensaver.. you can add chemicals form a database, the defaults are pretty nice though :D
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Eve
Although a lot of these X programs look hideous by default they can very much be customized and look pretty. I legitmately use xclock for time on xenodm on my OpenBSD set up.
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Although a lot of these X programs look hideous by default they can very much be customized and look pretty. I legitmately use xclock for time on xenodm on my OpenBSD set up.
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Ronnie
xev is a very useful x program. It can show you the name of keys. By default it shows mouse movements as well, but you can turn it off and only show keyboard events
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xev is a very useful x program. It can show you the name of keys. By default it shows mouse movements as well, but you can turn it off and only show keyboard events
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