Useful Graphical X Window Applications
If
you have ssh access to your account, and you have successfully set up
X forwarding so that when you start a graphical X window application
from the nisl server it now appears on your screen, then you may find
the following list of graphical applications useful to start and run
from your command line.
If you find an application from the start menu of KDE or Gnome that you like using on a Linux system, you can easily find out the command that is used to run the application, and launch it by hand from the command line. By right-clicking on the menu entry and selecting “Edit Item” you can find out the command that the desktop manager is using to launch the application.
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Terminals |
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konsole |
The KDE implementation of a tty console. Most useful because you can open up multiple command line sessions using the applications tabed session management to keep things straight. |
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Editors |
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kate |
An advanced yet simple to use and learn programmer's text editor. |
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kwrite |
KDE's implementation of a text editor. It is more ambitious as it strives to be a general editor, but it is also a good programmer's text editor as well. |
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Subversion Clients |
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kdesvn |
KDE's implementation of a subversion client in a GUI. |
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rapidsvn |
An alternative graphical subversion client. Probably a bit more powerful than kdesvn |
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File Browsers |
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konqueror –profile filemanagement |
Konqueror is also actually a full-featured web browser. But if you want a fairly good file manager, to view directory contents, drag files around, delete them, etc., then I currently prefer the filemanagement mode/profile of konqueror.
This is a good candidate for an alias, I usually have the alias: alias kf='konqueror -profile filemanagement' in my .bashrc file. |
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