doubledodge
Tutorials
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Software reviews (16)
| Software | Score |
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| links2 "Very lightweight and fast but no javascript in this build. Nicely keyboard centric browsing experience but with some quirky key allocations" |
4 |
| surf "You need to launch it from the command line with your desired web site address or if you use dmenue than ctrl g gets you a menue bar. Javascript enabled by default. See man surf" |
4 |
| hv3 "Oh dear - its a fight to stop a page load between the multiple error messages it throws up when connecting to a real web site. It seems to work OK viewing my local web site files however. Problem seems to be associated with moving the mouse to the menu bar." |
2 |
| i3 "Needs a tutorial - the metapackage DOES NOT install suckless-tools or i3status, you must install this separately and edit the config file to use i3-dmenu-desktop (not dmenu-run). Also its best to use the windows key instead of Alt for $mod so Alt is free to access menus in launched window style applications, e.g. FIrefox. Otherwise this is a potentially useful alternative to the usual Mint window managers and promises to be particularly attractive to the mouse averse like me." |
3 |
| xzoom "Having failed to get my netbook display to zoom with xrandr without switching from mate to compiz this seems the only remaining option, it needs a launcher defined for convenience but you can always launch it from the command line with > xzoom &" |
4 |
| audacity "Occasionally crashes and sometimes the playback gets very distorted however it is the best of the bunch and exports to ogg and mp3 (with the Lame add-in)" |
4 |
| apvlv "Needs a way of paging up or down a screen at a time not a whole pdf page. It opens a new instance every time you open another pdf - I want them in tabs but the only way to do that is to browse the files from within apvlv and I prerfer to use SpaceFM" |
3 |
| traverso "Could not get it to "arm" so could not record - plus it only records to wav format, Audacity exports direct to .ogg" |
2 |
| spyder "I can't imagine doing serious Python development without it. Perfect for debugging and examining tricky programming problems. However unlike the windows install there are a lot of additional modules you must add yourself. Spyder tells you what these are when you click on the optional dependencies list on its help tab. I also recommend installing Tix for programs to use the TIx/Tk interface." |
5 |
| clipit "This works just as it should, fine on Mint 17 Quiana Mate edition. An indispensible tool that should be part of the default Mint installation." |
5 |
| midori "The only redeeming feature is that it uses up less memory than Firefox, so when I am running a lot of stuff I sometimes (very reluctantly) switch to it. BUT IT IS SO SLOOOOOOW! It takes around 5 times as long as Firefox to load any new web page and I have yet to work out why, it may be some configuration option that needs fixing so please let me know if I have missed something?" |
1 |
| spacefm "I installed this on Mint 17 Quiana XFCE after getting really frustrated by the totally dreadful Thunar file manager. I am now planning to install it on my Mate machines as it also outshines the very capable Caja in flexibility, customisability and features. Totally awesome." |
5 |
| caja-dropbox "A simple way to install dropbox when you update to a new release - works seamlessly and finds my existing ~/home/Dropbox folder without me doing anything" |
5 |
| easytag "Nees to persist a little with the interface and how to commit the tags - indispensible for getting a sensible play order for a pils of podcasts in my Sansa Clip mp3 player - they must be set as genre = Podcast and given the same album name and then just use the track number to get the desired play order" |
4 |
| cryptkeeper "Very easy front end to encfs and fusermount. Works seamlessly on my encrypted dropbox folder with my W7 work PC running "ENCFS Gui" so I get access to the same encrypted files both on Linux and under windows" |
5 |
| calibre "Great on windows and Linux" |
5 |