This is brilliant for online poster presentations!
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Xournal or Xournal++ an application for touchscreen if you want to annotate pdf or write/draw with a stylus.
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If anyone is suffering from a lot of inactivity working at home for the past year like me, you might be interested in a stretching/break reminder/locker like Stretchly. It can be installed from AUR as stretchly-bin.
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I want to thank you for pointing out Sayonara, I have had issues with Strawberry/Clementine and had recently settled on Audacious, but was not happy. Sayonara is perfect, good sound and playlist queue that appends. So happy! 
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I have the opposite problem. I need something to remind me to start working. Taking a break is not an issue. 
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I started using rtv some weeks ago, which is short for reddit terminal viewer. You can write comments in nano and open different links formats with vlc, feh or other programs via mailcap. Itâs in the community repo.
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I believe rtv is no longer maintained, but tuir, which is available in the AUR, is a maintained fork of it.
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Thanks, nice to know! Iâll check it out.
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Iâd like to recommend ocenaudio as an excellent alternative to audacity:
audacity has always served me well as an audio editor, and I have recommended it to others. However, audacity is not for everyone, especially those users who have no prior experience with audio editing.
Last year, at the start of the pandemic, my partner told me that she needed an audio editor for her government job. The government for which she works was now conducting meetings via Zoom, and she was tasked with creating audio records of these meetings to be posted on the governmentâs website. Some meetings, however, break into âexecutive session,â where personnel records are discussed, for example, and these portions of the meetings should not be made public.
Of course, I recommended audacity, and I expected her to be thrilled with its functionality. Instead, even after a tutorial from me, she did not find audacity to be at all intuitive. In particular, she found it very difficult to locate and mark the beginning and end of an executive session, select the executive session, move the executive session to a different file, and end up with a redacted version of the meeting which she could post for the public online. It turns out that âscrubbingâ and âseekingâ are not concepts that are easily understood by everyone.
So I looked for alternatives to audacity. I found ocenaudio.
ocenaudio is a cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor. It is the ideal software for people who need to edit and analyze audio files without complications. ocenaudio also has powerful features that will please more advanced usersâŠ
The development of ocenaudio began when a Brazilian research group at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (LINSE) needed an easy-to-use audio editor loaded with features such as multiple file formats support, spectral analysis and audio signal generation.
Cornell Universityâs Department of Ornithology uses ocenaudio to extract bird sounds from a long recording (and also normalize the level of the extracted audio), much as my partner needs to extract an executive session from the recording of a long meeting. Cornell offers a tutorial here:
ocenaudio seems to be a better match for my partnerâs needs than audacity. The difference might be that ocenaudio edits audio more like you would edit text in a familiar word editor.
ocenaudio is in the AUR, but the package offered in the AUR hasnât been updated in ages. The AUR package is version 3.7.20, but the current version offered by ocenaudio is 3.10.3. There have been 14 updates of ocenaudio since the AUR version.
Fortunately, ocenaudio offers for download (click Start Download) a package for Arch which you can install in EndeavourOS with pacman:
This package installs without problem, and ocenaudio works very well.
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For KDE users ( Vallpaper 2.0.2) . This gives a kde user the ability to have different Wallpaper for each Virtual Desktop . Does not work for Cube or Grid but works good with slide . Only method i could find that works .
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Yeah, I wouldnât recommend OnlyOffice, either.
For those interested in Vallpaper:
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Thx for headsupâŠThat sucks.
P.S. Iâll watch / read it later, but assume it should be something legit
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Thank You , Kresimir for extra info on Vallpaper , sometimes i get lazy !
Keybreak , Yes it does suck , Information is power ! your welcome !
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How is it proprietary trap? Because a commercial version also exists?
The desktopeditors(which is what is generally promoted as open source) are licensed under GPLv3 and the code is fully available.
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Yes. But like with most videos on the internet, I donât believe anything in them unless I can validate it. So, I briefly looked into it. I am not sure if it is deliberately misleading or if the person is just uninformed but in the section about onlyoffice he is looking at âONLYOFFICE Docsâ. This is a server product for online editors and collaboration. He then complains that it is packaged as a docker image because he doesnât understand that it is a server product he is looking at.
That product is not what most of us are referring to when we talk about onlyoffice.
The software that most of us refer to as âonlyofficeâ is this one:
This is licensed under GPLv3 and is fully an open source product as far as I can tell.
That was the point of my question, unless you believe that making one product commercial makes a separate product not âopen sourceâ, I donât follow the logic here.
I hope those viewers will do more research than what is presented in the video and not just take it as fact.
I am not trying to start an argument, just trying to better understand the perspective in the event that your research led you to different data than my research did. I am not an expert on onlyoffice so it is entirely possible there is more to the story I am not aware of.
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The original complaint was that it wasnât really open source based on a video. I am not sure that this response has anything to do with that. How did we get to whether or not a security audit was done? The vast majority of open source software has not had a documented security audit performed.
Again, this is for a completely different product than the onlyoffice desktop editors some people are using as an office suite. This is for their SaaS solutions. Even then, it seems pretty reasonable for a SaaS-based solution where there are multiple vendors involved in handling your data.
5.4. Ascensio System SIA will not disclose, sell, lease or modify your data but may share your data to partners or other third parties when itâs necessary.
- Nobody is attacking anyone here.
- I did do my own research and posted the results. You avoided further discussion on any of those points.
- It doesnât feel like you are doing research here. It feels like you are trying to find reasons why onlyoffice is bad.
To be clear, I donât have any attachment to onlyoffice or even use it with any regularity. However, when someone posts information attacking something I think it is reasonable to expect other people to investigate and form their own opinions. That is what I have done. I then shared it so a discussion could be had to determine if there was an actual problem that we needed to be aware of here. At this point, my assessment is that there is no real issue here. That video appears to be completely misleading and I think it is important to point that out.
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I have very clearly done so. In fact, if you read up it should be clear that I have been trying to gain a greater understanding of your position this entire time.
I believe that the product ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors is real open source. As evidence of this, I provided you a link to both the source code and the license.
I further explained that the video did not investigate the Desktop Editors product, it discussed a different product, their enterprise collaboration server.
The only response I have seen to that was to ignore everything I have brought up and talk about code audits and then link to the license agreement for their commercial SaaS offerings, which is, yet again, a completely different product from ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors.
I wrote a fairly lengthy post explaining that already. But let me summarize it again. The product he is looking at in that entire video is NOT the ONLYOFFICE desktop suite. It is a different product offering from the same company.
That video is an opinion piece, I am simply sharing an opposing opinion for which I provided facts and documentation to back it up. Further, I have been completely open to you or anyone else sharing any additional information that would explain that perspective in more detail so that it could be openly discussed. Perhaps I am just not seeing it, but you donât seem to be responding to anything I am saying which is making an informed conversation difficult.
It is not my intention to attack you and, frankly, even after re-reading what I have written, I donât believe that I have done so.
Again, I donât have any attachment to ONLYOFFICE the company or the product, if any legitimate information was provided that they were doing something inappropriate with private data I would be at the front of the line complaining about it.
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So after work i didâŠ
I agree with @dalto itâs a mixup of 2 different products by same company, and ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors looks perfectly fine to me as far as source code and license, so iâll continue to use it for now, until it change. 
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Could we please just stick to favourite lesser known programs and take this discussion to PMs or open a new thread? There is already too much clutter here.
To get us back on topic, I present to you:
xcolor
A minimalist colour picker for X11 (btw, itâs written in Rust). Just run it in the terminal, click on a pixel anywhere on the screen, and it will print out the RGB value of that pixel to the standard output.
I donât think it could be any simpler and more elegant than this. What a great example of good software design! 
If you want to run it with a delay, of course, run it like this:
sleep 3; xcolor
You can specify the output format in great detail if you want. See
man xcolor
You can also use the -s option to save the output to X11 selection. And if you want the output to end up in your clipboard, just pipe it to xclip:
xcolor | xclip -sel c
In your DE/WM of choice, you can assign a key binding for something like sleep 3; xcolor | xclip -sel c and skip the terminal altogether. Very flexible, like good software ought to be.
Also, if youâre using EndeavourOS and want consistency in spelling:
alias xcolour=xcolor
(otherwise, you may as well use EndeavorOS 
)
Itâs in the AUR:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xcolor/
The only thing that sucks about it is the lack of a binary package in the AUR, so you have to build it when you install it. Thatâs normally not a problem, it takes only 2 seconds or so, but you have to have Rust installed as a build dependency. Rust is nice, though. Very hipster 
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Since youâve mentioned a color picker, Iâll present you my favourite, itâs called⊠Color Picker 
(package color-picker from AUR).
I use it a lot for my work.
It allows picking a color anywhere on the screen. Itâs as simple as this:
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