Ask HN: What are your favorite utility desktop apps? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite utility desktop apps?

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Post by ChrisGranger » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 3:41 AM UTC

pndy wrote: post #6

- Sizer http://www.brianapps.net/sizer (because I prefer my windows spawning with customized size and placement; pretty sure KDE offers similar stuff by default) - Xlaunchpad http://www.xwidget.com/ (mimicking OSX Launchpad feature on Windows; I'm using it with double-click the desktop to invoke setting) - Everything https://www.voidtools.com/ (default W10 files indexing and search replacement) - Notepad2-mod https:/…

I can't speak about KDE in particular, but I use a command line program called wmctrl to size windows to specific pixel dimensions.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/wmctrl

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite utility desktop apps?

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Post by ChrisGranger » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 3:44 AM UTC

Tomte wrote: post #3

AutoHotKey: https://www.autohotkey.com/

AutoHotkey is amazing. On Linux, there is also Autokey.

https://github.com/autokey/autokey

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite utility desktop apps?

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Post by HackOfAllTrades » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 5:14 AM UTC

Beyond Compare (Windows)compares Drives, Folders, & Files. Very fast and flexible -- both of which are important. Can also be used to copy files, to synchronize folders.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite utility desktop apps?

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Post by vkaku » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 6:48 AM UTC

- PDFStudio

- GoldWave

- Dash (macOS)

- TexturePacker

- GIMP

- Mp3Tag

- Daemon Tools (Image Mounting)

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite utility desktop apps?

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Post by tahebrvr767hv » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 7:00 AM UTC

Tomte wrote: post #3

AutoHotKey: https://www.autohotkey.com/

Can be very handy for automation (I ended up automating ice mining in Eve Online with it as an experiment)

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite utility desktop apps?

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Post by jjeaff » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 7:03 AM UTC

Greenshot - the best screenshot software out there. Open source and beats all the paid options.

Maps to print screen key. Let's you draw a box around what you want to snip, then you can send it straight to the clipboard, or open in a quick editor for notes, or go straight to imgur or a myriad of other programs.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite utility desktop apps?

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Post by 4bpp » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 7:39 AM UTC

rofi (https://github.com/davatorium/rofi). I use it as my primary window switcher.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite utility desktop apps?

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Post by ahoka » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 8:04 AM UTC

MiddleEndian wrote: post #11

Ditto - Clipboard manager for Windows. The nicest I've used on any OS. Great for managing the last N items (set to remove items after a week for me) and it's easy to delete or modify entries. Klipper - Clipboard manager for Linux. It's part of KDE so I'm not sure if it counts but it doesn't seem to be well known. Basically the same as Ditto for Linux but a bit clunkier. 7+ Taskbar Tweaker - Tool that modifies the Win…

Windows 10 seems to have built-in clipboard manager:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028529/windows-10-...

Anyone using it? Not my thing, but I thought I might mention it, maybe somone finds it useful.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite utility desktop apps?

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Post by PeOe » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 9:09 AM UTC

I like 1Clipboard on Windows http://1clipboard.io/ but I'd love to find a Windows version of Flycut for Mac https://github.com/TermiT/Flycut where you can use a shortut to view & toggle through the latest clips (since that's usually my use-case). Any ideas?

Click.to http://www.clicktoapp.com/ is also super useful (I use it mostly for looking up German translations & wikipedia stuff)

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite utility desktop apps?

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Post by dev_north_east » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 10:20 AM UTC

HackOfAllTrades wrote: post #23

Beyond Compare (Windows)compares Drives, Folders, & Files. Very fast and flexible -- both of which are important. Can also be used to copy files, to synchronize folders.

Aye, it's my goto for viewing diffed files from mercurial and git. Really nice tool.