JPdfBookmarks, a simple and useful tool to create bookmarks on any pdf, no need for adobe acrobat. The bookmarks will show up in any pdf viewer. Both binary and source are available.

I've used cmus, moc(p), and many other music players for both the GUI and console, but the one I've fallen in love with recently, and don't plan on getting rid of is ncmpcpp/mpd. With a nice addition of mpdscribble, I have all I need in a music player. 100% better than any GUI based music player, because it doesn't crash when I'm going between X and the console.

I've recently wrote a rather extensive bash script for work using sc and bc to display a pretty representation of our store's numbers for the day/week.

Unfortunately I'm still pretty new at Slackware in general, so I'm still learning. Trying to write out an essentials list to install every time I install/upgrade Slackware. Slowly working out as many GUI based applications as possible, and trying to move from XFCE to DWM as well.

Here's some relevant stuff from my netbook...
If you're getting *undesired* mouse behaviour, like scrolling on the desktop or titlebar changing workspaces, etc, the keys file is where that behaviour can be modified.

Here is a pretty extensive use of .fluxbox/keys:

http://darkshed.net/files/rcs/fluxbox/keys.html

cheers,

IMHO 'rm -rf /' is something that should not have been said in the first place. This was a thread ment to learn/revist the gems of Linux. This looks like someone starts a thread looking to learn something from the seniors and some a**clown gives a wisea** answer.
If this was a joke - this is _definately_ not the thread to post it in. Should have been in general or someplace where people are not looking for technical issues.

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@SilverBack: A joke in poor taste perhaps but unlikely to cause harm on a modern distro http://pthree.org/2009/01/07/rm-rf/

Edit: The page seems to be down as I write this. Here is the Google cache, just in case.

If one needed a qr code reader(or a bar-code reader,for that matter)..ZBar's easy to setup with imagemagick's import command.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zbar/

Love bsdtar never heard of it before but I do quite a bit of scripting and I will be using it in future.

Synergy allows me to use one keyboard and mouse on multiple machines scattered around the office OSX and Linux.

Just found surfraw a commandline search engine uses shedloads of search engines amazon google etc etc.

rclock, included with Slackware (via rxvt) as long as I can remember,
can be used as a appointment/reminder/calender via file ~/.rclock.

BTW, cool thread, noticed a couple little apps worth investigating.

Just tried cmus, seems overly complex why not just use Obviously changing the playlist filename

One man's obscure app is another's famous bigtime one, so apologies if some here aren't 'little-known'. Most of the stuff on this thread is unfamiliar to me, but there's more than one that I thought was huge and didn't know anyone was living without. So I'm actually including a couple of things that I don't usually think of as obscure.

A variety of things which slap friendly frontends on scripts:
Xdialog
gtkdialog
gxmessage
yad
All have a variety of strengths and, unfortunately, weaknesses. (Xdialog is supposed to be a graphical 'dialog' but you have to be ultra-careful and limited to be compatible; gxmessage is a much closer dropin for xmessage; yad is an enhanced DE-independent fork of zenity; gtkdialog is kind of in its own weird universe.)

Lightweight partial replacements for heavier famous things:
dtach - allows detaching a process from a controlling terminal without the interference of 'screen' (dtach irssi!).
mtpaint - nifty app that lets you do a tiny subset of gimpy things without the behemoth that is the 'gimp'.

Familiar things with extra features (still light!):
dwdiff - awesome app until 'diff' incorporates its features - generate (optionally colorized) word diffs rather than line diffs (like git diff --color-words).
htop - scrollable virtuoso of process monitoring - I don't use 'top' interactively anymore.
par - I still don't know how to really use this properly but it's an ultra-'fmt'.

Misc stuff:
gcolor2 - DE-independent color picker; style html pages or gtk widgets or whatever.
id3lib - this is a library, but it also comes with a handful of very basic CLI tools that are useful for any of your music that's id3-tagged: id3info, id3tag, id3convert, id3cp.
openrdate - if you want to sync your clock without a daemon (probably other ways to do this one).
rlwrap - ed with command line editing and history! Any app can be automatically made a readline app with this wrapper which, unlike most wrappers, works really well.
root-tail - display logs, etc. to your root-window.
shntool and shorten - listen to shorten files (that you might get from etree and so on) and/or losslessly convert them to wav and then flac and otherwise manipulate them and other file formats.
xclip - read and write data from clipboards and files; as one example, some x-terminals can activate links but I actually find this annoying as it makes what should be plaintext a mousey hotspot instead (I use mrxvt which doesn't/can't do this) - with '$BROWSER "`xclip -o`"' bound to key and mouse in fvwm, it can turn any text into a link without messing with the text.

All of these are available from SBo - I'll have to think and look to see what obscure in-system stuff I use (it's hard for me to think of most in-system stuff as obscure because it's right there. )

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I use and recommend these too. Well, besides dtach. I prefer tmux over both screen and dtach. Similar to xclip is also xsel which seems to have a shorter syntax.

Some other handy apps: http://laurikari.net/tre/ contains agrep (in SBo)
& http://www.sanslogic.co.uk/fswebcam/ (not in SBo yet)

Another nice little app is di SBo Homepage
Its an alternative to the df command and also includes with mi which is an alternative to mount (its informational part, its not capable of mounting devices).

And if you're sensible and have git installed anyway, "git diff" was designed to operate *outside* of a repository, which means you get this functionality for free, without needing dwdiff.

-- Thomas Adam

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1) Yes, I mentioned 'git diff --color-words'. But just because I use git (and I was using dwdiff before git) doesn't mean it's sensible for people who don't use git to use it just for diffs. What would be sensible about having git installed if you don't use it? What would be sensible about installing it just to do a diff?
2) Using git to do a diff rather than a diff to do a diff isn't doing one thing and doing it well. Git diff includes patchy output by default that may not be necessary for a dwdiff user and may even need to be removed. They also have different options including much simpler 'word' redefinition in dwdiff. The vast majority of git diff options are useless to a non-git user and the man page would be a pain for them to wade through.
3) Doing 'sbopkg -i dwdiff' (or equivalent) and getting a 120K package may not be free but it's hardly going to break the bank. Especially when trading off ease-of-use and appropriateness to purpose.

This thread is to tell all Slackers - not just git users - about nifty underappreciated apps. Would you like to add anything to this thread, rather than trying to subtract?

A little harsh...I take your three points about the merits of dwdiff as opposed to using git diff. The last bit was unnecessary I thought. Maybe Thomas thought git diff was a good suggestion and a valid contribution to the thread. He has 14 posts, you have over 4000. He is listed as a LQ Newbie, you as a Senior Member.

I just think sometimes maybe we could be a little more welcoming.