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Collection of interesting programs
E-book reader: fbreader
IRC: Iinternet relay chat
Web browsers
Application firewalls
| Name | Comment |
|---|---|
| Apparmor | In the Debian repository |
| MODsecurity | In the Debian repository |
| Tomoyo | In the Debian repository. Mandatory Access Control implementation. Easy to use |
| Douane | Not in the Debian repository |
| Opensnitch | Not in the Debian repository. Needs Go, no deb file, make procedure. Install procedure |
| grsecurity | Not in the Debian repository |
| Systrace | Not in the Debian repository |
| F5 | Commercial |
| Kerio Control | Commercial |
| Zorp | Commercial? |
Measurements
Measure the average cpu load of two processes over 100 seconds
i=1; while [[ $i -le 1000 ]]; do echo $( bc <<< $(ps h -p 12084 -o \%cpu)+$(│ ps h -p 12084 -o \%cpu) ) >> twoprocesses.txt; ((i++)); sleep 0.1; done
IOzone: filesystem benchmark tool
Filezilla
To set the default editor to geany do
- Edit | Settings
- File editing
- Use system's default editor for text files
- Use file associations by default if available
- File type associations
- Inherit system's filetype associations
- Add: txt /usr/bin/geany %F
Geany
Issues
Runs /home/user/.bashrc when started
UTF-8
An error occurred while converting the file from UTF-8 in "ISO-8859-1". The file remains unsaved. Error message: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input The error occurred at "–" (line: 468, column: 1).
Solution: Replace the mentioned “–” with a fresh typed “-“
Row highlighting
Active row highlighting does not work. The setting:
Tools → Configuration Files → filetypes.common → current_line=0x000000;0xf0f0f0;true;
does not seem to work
Solution: t.b.d.
UseNet
newsboat
Issues
After addng a RSS feed to the urls file and starting
newsboat --log-level=3 --log-file=/home/user/newsboat.log
the feed did not show up in the feeds list. After running just
newsboat
it did show up. To be checked: does it update
PAN USEnet news reader
In Edit | Edit Preferences | Shortcuts <Primary> is the CTRL key
Usenet FAQ
Planning
| Name | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Charm time tracker | ||
| Planner | 23MB | |
| Redmine | 96MB |
Sylpheed
An e-mail client
Issues
Lacks a To column in the search window
Audio
Audacity
No sound. Check if the sound device is set to default in the drop down list to the right of the speaker symbol. If so and still no sound check the settings of your audio equipment, amplifier and speakers
Privacy issues
Privacy issues past version 2.4
Also see: Audacity is being called spyware after privacy policy update
Video recorders
D: Available in the Debian repository
| Name | D | Install size | Interface | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bluecherry | N | IP | Surveillance | |
| C-mor | N | IP | Surveillance | |
| Camorama | N | |||
| Cheese | Y | 121 MB | Plain webcam recorder | |
| Ekiga | N | Also video callls. Surveillance | ||
| Guvcview | Y | 2 MB | ||
| HasciiCam | Y | 200 kB | Renders to ascii. Surveillance | |
| Ivideon | N | IP | Download does not work. Surveillance | |
| Kamoso | N | For KDE | ||
| Motion | Y | 2 MB | CLI with build in webserver. Surveillance | |
| Shinobi | N | IP, USB | Written in Node.js 1) | |
| Webcamoid | Y | 32 MB | No need for a server | |
| wxCam | N | Movement recording | ||
| Xeoma | N | IP | Surveillance | |
| ZoneMinder | N | Needs apache2 mariadb-server php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql. Has an installation procedure. Surveillance |
Video editors
| Name | Install size | Remark |
|---|---|---|
| Blender | 329 MB | Complicated. Aimed at 3D animation so very suitable for regular video editing |
| DaVinci Resolve | Not in the Debian repository. Not open source | |
| Cinelerra | Not in the Debian repository. | |
| Flowblade | 440 MB | |
| Kdenlive | 631 MB | For KDE |
| Lightworks | 62 MB | Not in the Debian repository. The free version can be downloaded from https://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_lwks&view=download&layout=d&dtype=lin_public_deb&Itemid=206 . Troublesome install |
| Openshot | 550 MB | |
| Shotcut | 306 MB | Not in the Debian repository. Download the tar file from https://www.fosshub.com/Shotcut.html?dwl=shotcut-linux-x86_64-200711.txz . 72 MB download |
| VidCutter | Not in the Debian repository. Not open source |
OpenShot Video Editor
Save a video in a small format. Use:
- Export Video ( CTRL-E)
- Select the desired folder
- Simple tab
- Profile: Web
- Target: Wikipedia
- Video Profile: QVGA 29,97 fps
- Quality: Low
This results in a small ogg video file
Screenrecorders
Our favorite: Vokoscreen
| Name | In Debian repository | Size | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| FFmpeg | Yes | To use run: ffmpeg -f x11grab -an -s hd1080 -r 25 -v:b 23000 -i :0.0 -g 1 -q:v 0.1 -vcodec libxvid FFmpegCaptured.mp4 in a terminal | |
| Green Recorder | No | Discontinued | |
| Kazam | Yes | 10 MB | GUI. It is not clear how to stop the recording and play the recording. We had to kill the kazam process to stop the recording |
| OBS-Studio | Yes | 13 MB | Also streaming of content |
| Peek | Yes | 800 kB | Animated gif desktop recorder |
| RecordMyDesktop | Yes | 100 kB | Discontinued. Generates an ogg file |
| Screenstudio | No | Written in Java | |
| SimpleScreenRecorder | Yes | 4 MB | QT interface. Can not record a window only |
| Vokoscreen | Yes | 2 MB | GUI. Uses ffmpeg. Can record a window only |
Vokoscreen no sound
- Close vokoscreen
- Edit ~/.config/vokoscreen/vokoscreen.conf
and change
[Pulse] Pulse=false
to
[Pulse] Pulse=true
Work in progress
Xsane
Document scanner program
In Window > Show advanced options (CTRL+6) you can set the settings for RGB
Scan black and white documents
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| Scan mode | Gray |
| Source medium type | Full color range |
| Scan resolution | 150 |
| Gamma value | 0.88 |
| Brightness | -13.3 |
| Contrast | 50.0 |
Podcast
gPodder
Advantages
- Small: 5MB
- GUI
Disadvantges
- It is not possible to remove played or deleted items from the list
Commandline
| Program | Written in | Remark |
|---|---|---|
| greg | Python | |
| mashpodder | Bash | No longer maintained |
| Podcatcher | Ruby | |
| Podbeuter | Goes with newsbeuter. newsbeuter is replaced by newsboat | |
| Podfox | Pyton |
Electronics
Schematic capture
| Name | Description | Remark |
|---|---|---|
| caneda | ||
| tkgate | ||
| xcircuit | ||
| xschem | Schematic capture and netlisting EDA tool |
Tools
kdocker: lets any application being docked in the systemtray
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