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Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by michaelmrose »

Keeblo wrote: post #230
michaelmrose wrote: post #165

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Zathura can use mupdf as a backend and has much better bindings/features compared to mupdf, it also supports other ebook formats. Still pretty keyboard driven and not an optimal choice for ubuntu. Maybe ubuntu should have a more minimal spin with i3wm and apps like zathura.

I second that! The i3wm rocks, but it's kind of a pain to set up. Many applications expect certain GUI elements to be present, and a lot of "It Just Works" aspects of Ubuntu (e.g. hotkeys on laptop media keyboards working) are built into the desktop environment and have to be reconfigured for i3wm.

This is super trivial just figure out the right command to run and what the key is called and bindsym key command.

If you don't know what they key is called run xev and press the key and it will show you.

If you don't know what command to run google do whatever command line linux.

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by sigi21 »

Web Browser: Firefox, Chromium Email Client: Thunderbird Terminal: ??? IDE: ??? File manager: Nautilus Basic Text Editor: ??? IRC/Messaging Client: ??? PDF Reader: ??? Office Suite: LibreOffice Calendar: Thunderbird Video Player: VLC Music Player: VLC Photo Viewer: ??? Screen recording: ???

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by Nala_Alan »

Web Browser: Chromium

Email Client: Gmail (web), Protonmail (web)

Terminal: gnome-terminal

IDE: Sublime Text 3 (non-free), Visual Studio Code

File manager: default

Basic Text Editor: nano

IRC/Messaging Client: HexChat

PDF Reader: default

Office Suite: LibreOffice

Calendar: none

Video Player: mpv

Music Player: unsure, i would go with DeaDBeeF and Spotify (non-free)

Photo Viewer: ???

Screen recording: none

Extra: KeePass, git, gpg

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by someone666a »

Web Browser: Firefox/Chromium

Email Client: Thunderbird

Terminal: Whatever

IDE: No!

File manager: Nautilus

Basic Text Editor: Gnote

IRC/Messaging Client: No!

PDF Reader: Whatever

Office Suite: No!/Libreoffice

Calendar: Whatever/No!

Video Player: VLC

Music Player: VLC

Photo Viewer: Whatever

Screen recording: No!

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by cJ0th »

grover_hartmann wrote: post #229
cJ0th wrote: post #214

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I only recently discovered mpv. Is it possible to make it resume the playback where it was left off?

Yes, from the mpv(1) man page: Q Like q, but store the current playback position. Playing the same file later will resume at the old playback position if possible. Just quit with Q instead of q.

awesome! thanks a lot!

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by picibucor »

Kostic wrote: post #20

Web Browser: Firefox Email Client: Thunderbird Terminal: Tilix[0], Gnome Terminal, IDE: Visual Studio Code (although it's not a fully fledged IDE) File manager: Nautilus Basic Text Editor: Gedit IRC/Messaging Client: Polari, HexChat PDF Reader: Evince Office Suite: LibreOffice Calendar: Gnome Calendar Video Player: Totem Music Player: Lollypop[1] Photo Viewer: Eye of Gnome Screen recording: Peek[2] [0] https://github…

similarly, but: Browser: chromium Video & music player: vlc Ide: atom
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