Cool but obscure X11 tools
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Cool but obscure X11 tools
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Re: Cool but obscure X11 tools
#2Oh my, that reminds me of my first year with Linux, discovering all those little utilities hidden on my Slackware install or available on Sunsite…
Re: Cool but obscure X11 tools
#3Takes me back so many years to grad school. I still find myself using a few of the tools though, even after all these years. xload for one is a favourite.
Re: Cool but obscure X11 tools
#4One BIG thing missing: xteddy! It was xteddy shown in parallel on multiple HP 9000 screens in the early 90ies, which sparked my love for UNIX.
http://weber.itn.liu.se/~stegu/xteddy/
see also
Also xon (very handy for non-ssh users), jwz's xdaliclock and xkeycaps.
Re: Cool but obscure X11 tools
#5Takes me back so many years to grad school. I still find myself using a few of the tools though, even after all these years. xload for one is a favourite.
my fvwm "desktop" consists for years only of FvwmPager, rclock, and multiple xload running on different machines.
Re: Cool but obscure X11 tools
#6Nice nostalgia. Unfortunately most of the ones that deal with text are from before the 8bit to utf-8 move, which makes them unusable nowadays (unless you restrict yourself to ASCII).
Re: Cool but obscure X11 tools
#7As well DDD the X11 front-end for GDB [1]. Helped me quite a lot around 2003.
Re: Cool but obscure X11 tools
#8As well DDD the X11 front-end for GDB [1]. Helped me quite a lot around 2003. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
From what I remember when trying to use it, it looked nice but it was very buggy
Not sure it even supported threads for a while
Re: Cool but obscure X11 tools
#9xeyes isn't obscure , how else do you test that ssh x forwarding works otherwise :)
Re: Cool but obscure X11 tools
#10For those looking for obscure-but-useful, checkout xdotool. `sleep 2; xdotool type "foo"` is super handy for typing passwords into virtual machines which don't support guest additions. I'd rather not elaborate on the filthy things I've made it do, but rest assured you can use it to do some quick and dirty automation tasks if you really need to :)