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I used to like the condensed variant of Deja Vu, which is the default font (in the regular variation) for many linux distributions/DEs I guess. I've always disliked the regular variant, I find it too wide, while the condensed is very nice to look at. It's quite a hassle to actually use it everywhere though, either the font is buggy, or the apps that read it are buggy. I think it's the former as other fonts with two "nested subtypes/variants" work (such as liberation). The GUI settings...
Cleanup old backup files quickly with feedback on operations being done.
Outstanding doc viewer that doesn't tie up your terminal.
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See the link below for the "how and why" to install these as symlinks in your HOME/bin folder. Need functions for 'browse', 'launch', 'tofile'? It's all here. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-tofile-34376/
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In my setup I have HOME/bin with a subdirectory named src where I put my private stockpile of micro-programs and where I can uninstall them easily by simply deleting the files or the directories containing them.
Under HOME/bin/src I have the directories named for the apps they contain, in some cases being collections of apps with additional subdirectories.
In order to put the apps in the path all that is necessary...
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