Favourite Lesser Known Programs

Bashtop is fairly well known, and everyone has htop installed :roll_eyes:

Yes, htop is faster and more accurate, bashtop looks prettier. Use whichever one you like more. Let’s get back on the topic. :wink:

2 Likes

Amateurs…Real man would calculate process load in head! :exploding_head:

7 Likes

Yes I seem to remember you saying this on the other forum.

This looks really nice. Would you recommend this over Zim? Or would you consider them different things?

I would would consider them different things with a lot of overlap.

I have four basic requirements for a note taking application:

  • It has to support markdown well
  • It needs to be able to encrypt my notes
  • It must support Linux, Windows and iOS
  • It has to be able to transparently handle synchronization between all my devices

Joplin meets all those requirements.

3 Likes

This was totally new for me just a few months ago. For those that don’t use vim, micro is a far superior editor compared to nano. You can do all the normal hotkeys for cut, paste, etc and scroll with your mouse.

9 Likes

It’s in the AUR right ?

Edit : Yeah ,it’s there :innocent:

Yep! Says on the project page to use yay -S micro for Arch :wink:

3 Likes

What about micro-bin
I don’t wanna compile :grimacing: :confused:

Yea, you can use that too!

1 Like

Okay I have open it ( micro )

now how do I close it :grimacing:

Not following what you mean? Close what?

Edit:
Ah, ctrl+q

1 Like

Go through their Documentation & Help section and you’ll be good to go.

1 Like

I ctrl+x ed and cut a line from my .bashrc . Force of nano

1 Like

micro is great, I use it too. The major problem with this program is it’s name. It is impossible to search for it on the web.

4 Likes

I remember when I first started using Linux all these tutorials used vim and I remember how utterly horrible the experience was trying to figure out how to use it. I had the stereotypical experience of being unable to even exit the damn thing :joy: Now that I’ve been using it so long, everything else feels so foreign. I wish I could get into nano or micro or what have you, but I guess I’m stuck in my ways now :joy:

4 Likes

Yeah, I hated vim, and then I discovered vimtutor :smiley:

The best thing about vim is that you don’t have to know 10% of its features to use it efficiently. You discover new things about it years after starting to use it.

But vim is certainly not a lesser known program.

2 Likes

Yep, not to take this too far off topic but I’ve even gone so far as to glitz my vim setup some…

Screenshot from 2020-09-02 16-57-23

1 Like

The ctrl-z it back :smiley:

1 Like

To get back on topic, I introduce to you:

termdown

A simple terminal based coundown timer and a stopwatch, with some fancy features like the figlet display (various big fonts rendered in ascii characters), custom time display formatting, spoken time (using espeak), etc…

termdown

For example, to set a 15 minute timer and an alarm, just run in the terminal:

termdown 15m && mplayer -loop 0 frog-croak.mp3 

You can make this a script and just run it as timer 15m for example.

I use it all the time, it’s great for cooking eggs and things like that. It can also execute a command each second and pass it both the time elapsed and time remaining, so there is great potential for scripting. Termdown is written in Python, but you couldn’t really tell just by using it, as it runs very well.

For more info, run

termdown --help

(unfortunately, it does not have manpages)

On EndeavourOS, it is really easy to install it using pacman, since it’s in the Arch community repo:
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/termdown/
On non-Arch distros, you can use pip.

Project’s github: https://github.com/trehn/termdown

14 Likes