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Subject: Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux install?
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:20:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote at 17:21 this Saturday (GMT):
> On 2024-07-12, Ben Collver wrote:
>
>> On 2024-07-07, Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Just wondering what programs (aside from the coreutils/X11 and other
>>> elements that make up a basic install), do you consider to be a vital
>>> part of YOUR Linux install?  What are the little additional tools that
>>> you can't live without, or just consider to be necessary that maybe
>>> others wouldn't?
>>
>> Some of these are too retro to be mainstream:
>>
>> lshw      - Linux equivalent to HP-UX ioscan
>> 7-zip     - extracts .7z files
>
> I stand by my choice of BSD tar for this! :-P
>
> (Now seriously, the main benefit is that, being tar, it uses the tar
> syntax for options and commands. Hopefully 7-zip is not like RAR where
> some archive types aren't supported by at least some FLOSS libraries and
> utilities?)
>
>> units     - convert between different units
>
> I embarassingly admit I often use this to convert between tempC and
> tempF. I ought to have memorized the conversion already :-P

Yeah, I should probably install it too. I keep googling conversions like
that.

>> xclip     - CLI access to copy/paste buffer
>
> xclip can not only access the selections, it can also request different
> targets and list the targets (xclip -o -target TARGETS) available.
>
> For example, when copying from a web page on a mozilla-codebase browser,
> it's possible to get the page URL using xclip, without having to copy it
> separately.


It is really nice, especially if you're like me and copy images
directly. I have a specific keybind for it in xbindkeysrc, also using
dragon-drop (another super useful util!!)

---
xclip -se -c -target image/png -o > /tmp/clipboard.png && dragon-drop -x
/tmp/clipboard.png
  control + Alt + Shift + C
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