Linux Tools

Contents 1 Music 1.1 mpd 2 Network 3 System 4 Text 4.1 Vim 5 Utilities 6 Viewing 6.1 feh

Music

• SoundTracker

mpd

Interface: ncmpc

Network

• Firefox
• Thunderbird
• Nicotine
• iptraf (network traffic monitor)

System

• mc
• ccze -
• xtail - use to watch many logs at once, e.g. xtail /var/log/*|ccze -A (use ctrl-\ to quit !)
• GNU Screen - to get vertical splits (which are slow and not recommended) and layouts and stuff, checkout development version from GNU Savannah:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/screen co screen

Documentation of new features available here

• pciutils - contains lspci

Text

• wgetpaste - example: lspci|wgetpaste -> URL to pastebin!

Vim

Extensions:

• taglist - gentoo: app-vim/taglist - use :Tlist
• AutoAlign - gentoo: app-vim/autoalign - is automatically activated for e.g. C++ files
• Universal Text Linking - example: write <URL:file.txt> in a text file and use <Leader>gu to jump to that file
• Vim/Ruby Configuration Files
• OmniCppComplete : C++ completion omnifunc with a ctags database
• a.vim : Alternate Files quickly (.c --> .h etc) - gentoo: app-vim/alternate

- see my vim page for more information

Utilities

Viewing

• mplayer

feh

~/.fehrc:

feh --quiet --full-screen --hide-pointer --auto-zoom --borderless