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fish is so awesome. Discovered this feature by accident - type a letter or two, then press Shift+Tab
It gives you a list of possible commands along with what they do.
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I use that frequently. It’s a brilliant feature. As is the history search.
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Highly recommend DeadBeef player for those, who prefer the minimalist and functional approach of such software as Foobar2000.
If everybody knows about this software and I didn’t make any discovery here, then it’s fine, I guess. But if anybody looks for something practical like Foobar2000, but for Linux, then it’s your choice.
I managed to find a video with a review on DeadBeef, so if you’d like a little summary, then here you go.
yay -S deadbeef
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Foobar is still hands down my favorite player. I really miss it… Will look into this one 
Finding a substitute for Foobar2000 used to be one of the first things I did once introduced to Linux first time many years ago. DeadBeef saved me here, so I thought I should share the knowledge 
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Nah it still sucks compared…I use foobar2000 in Wine 
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Easy GUI tool to manage flatpaks.
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Jupp, one of my unholy trinity in Wine:
- Irfanview - yeah, gvenview is great. But irfanview is faster, both in showing images as well as in simple manipulation and batch tasks.
- Notepad++ - yupp. It is just that good. Kate could be a solution, if only it would remember were I stopped last time without saving…
- Foobar2K - it is just foo. And bar. And quicker, leaner and more beautiful.
Can’t get my head around the devs - PLEASE give us native linux support *prays to the old gods and the new
A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++.
Though the application overall is stable and usable, it should not be considered safe for critically important work.
Not-yet-there alternate to NotepadQQ which tries to push flatpak or appimage onto it’s users - I’d rather not…
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Will check this out asap.
Perhaps others may like FocusWriter:
https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/
Distraction-free writing, and if you’re old like me, it comes with the sounds of a typewriter if you want .
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I LOVE focuswriter, that’s usually one of my first applications to install 
NovelWriter is great for planning longer projects, but something to just keep track of wordcount and freewrite on is also great to have. Awesome program.
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After seeing @bitterhalt’s screenshot here a couple weeks ago I’ve been tinkering around with lf, and I gotta say this thing is amazing!
I have been using Broot for a long time and the built-in fuzzy search is so fast and good that I’ve had a hard time letting it go, even though they still haven’t added Sixel support. Even though lf does not have this handy fuzzy navigation feature, it is just way better for other reasons so I’m all in now.
I was able to put together a somewhat hacky but very functional version of the fuzzy search in lf using fd and fzy:
# fzy search
cmd fzy ${{
path=$(fd -H | fzy -l "$(( $(tput lines) - 1 ))")
[ -z "$path" ] && exit
[ -d "$path" ] && cmd='cd' || cmd='select'
lf -remote "send $id $cmd '$path'"
}}
map / fzy
# Remap regular search function
map <c-f> search
I mapped it to / because I find it to be more useful than the in-built search function.
I made a ugrep one while I was at it (for searching inside of files), because why not? 
# ugrep -Q search
cmd ugrep_select ${{
path=$(ugrep -QI. --no-confirm)
[ -z "$path" ] && exit
[ -d "$path" ] && cmd='cd' || cmd='select'
cleaned_path=$(echo "$path" | sed 's/\x1B\[[0-9;]*[JKmsu]//g') # Remove ANSI escape codes
full_path=$(realpath "$cleaned_path")
lf -remote "send $id $cmd '$full_path'"
}}
map <c-_> ugrep_select
ugrep search for something, hit Enter to hold the screen and Enter again to make a selection, Ctrl+Q to quit out of the selection menu and it brings you right to the file in lf. Handy!
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Detox is good, however for future reference when you are in CLI and need to access files with spaces such as you show, Talking Heads MP3, you just escape the entry with ’ so it would look like this /mnt/Storage/‘Talking Heads MP3’.
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Pix - Multimedia viewer, editor, and organiser from the Linux Mint team.
Technically, I’ve known about it for a while and even had it installed for months. But, because I’ve been using Dolphin as my multimedia manager, I’ve just ignored it and kept it installed without actually using it.
Decided to open it today just to see what changes have been made, if any. I’ve got to say that I am very impressed at what they’ve done with it. It’s almost full-featured now.
Note: Made the thumbnails larger just for presentation. They can be as small as 48 px.
The main things it is missing for my personal needs are some kind of independent folder or bookmarks and operation history.
For bookmarking: It uses whatever bookmarks it finds for your GTK file manager, which kinda holds it back. I don’t want to have a million bookmarks in my regular file manager just so Pix can access the folders with images, graphics, and such.
Operation history: In Dolphin and XnViewMP, whenever I select “move to” or “copy to” for files, these apps remember the locations in a list. XnViewMP’s method is, I imagine, an infinite list (I’ve had over 50 before), while Dolphin’s allows 10 recent folders for move and 10 for copy operations. These make working with files and folders very convenient.
Pix only remembers 1 folder—the last folder.
That being said, it can actually edit images, something Dolphin cannot do without extensions (very basic and imprecise extensions that I will never use).
Lastly, it’s a great app, and I am surprised it’s not in the Official Repos since it’s developed directly by the Linux Mint Team. The Mint team probably need to promote it better so that people switching from Mint or Cinnamon DE users will prefer it over installing another app. To my knowledge (I know this for a fact, actually), Cinnamon doesn’t bundle an image viewer for Arch distros. This should be it, since you can actually remove most of the extra settings out of your way and just use it as a viewer only.
PS: The reason I hadn’t been using it was because I normally use qimgv which has some quick editing features I like. However, Pix has them too and launches just as quickly despite being a huge app in terms of features, including customisable shortcuts.
—Note: qimgv can actually do a lot as well, but Pix is better at organisation, cataloguing, etc.
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used to be a dierhard zsh fanatic, always looking for the next greatest zsh toolkit, all of which are basically massive collections of rc/config files and scripts.
90% of that is out of the box in fish, the other 9% is via a one click install with fisher. In fact I think there are quite a few things zsh still won’t do.
the most common complaint I here from people is about bash scripts. My answer is always to install dash shell (a faster bash) and to ensure all scripts have a shebang, which is good practice.
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I use something more simple, Mirage, as long as I have resize/crop functions I’m fine 
. Pix is Gthumb without the Gnome dependencies.
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Never knew gthumb could do all that. Then again, haven’t really used Gnome-specific apps for a while.
For me, the appeal of zsh is only for those who live in the terminal. I’m a GUI kinda user, so my settings are customised but very basic.
Fish remembers all my commands for me, and that’s why I use it. Though, I do have a TXT file with all the common/important ones listed.