New on the market / Fresh from the repos

[gutterslob]

http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/tlp.html

[GekkoP]

Thanks gslob, I replaced laptop-mode-tools with that. Let's see if it makes any difference.

[DebianJoe]

Just thought that this was as good of a place as any to let you guy know about my most recent project.

hcwm = heavily commented window manager.

It started out that I couldn't decide if I wanted dwm or cwm on most of my installs (really great stacking, or minimalist tiling)...then I had that little girl from the commercial that says "why not both?" pop up, and so I started this one.

It's a majorly stripped-down (less than 1/2 the size....only about 1/16 of the functionality) dwm, with an option in the config.h file that allows the user to set a "secondary wm" to fall back into. cwm includes that cool little box that lets you select what wm you want to run, so if I want to switch to tiling, I launch my little program...and then use the keybinds to return to cwm without ever leaving X. I left all the development comments that I put in there in it, so it's easy to hack into whatever you want to make it be.


cwm

hcwm

Before anyone is like "blah blah blah, I like ____ feature! Why didn't you add that?" I don't care what you like. I do this because I like it.

https://github.com/DebianJoe/hcwm

[wuxmedia]

wow so you've sort of mashed them together?
Neat.

[xaos52]

I just added trying it out to my TODO list.
Sounds cool.

[GekkoP]

You took my favorite WMs! :)
I'll give a try soon.

[DebianJoe]

@Wux: It's not that they're "mashed together", but that cwm already has the ability to switch on the fly to a different WM without killing Xserver. This is just the counter-part so that I can use a pure tiler, and then go back. It would work as a totally separate tiling wm, so you don't have to have cwm to use it, but that's what I had in mind for myself when I started because I don't really like dwm's stacking as much as cwm's.

It's not that it works like dwm, so much as I totally stole half of their functions. -_-

[rhowaldt]

nice work DJ, proud of you :)

[machinebacon]

That's really interesting.:)

[ivanovnegro]

Thumbs up DJ.

[bones]

New Debian testing and sid based offering:

http://www.vk-informatica.com/wakawa_en.php

In MATE and Openbox

[ivanovnegro]

^ And people complain about carousels, on this one you will vomit. :D

[machinebacon]

^ Sounds like "has been running on hundreds of computers without a hitch", if somebody remembers this statement ;)

[DebianJoe]

Ed fans! Are you tired of the vi and emacs guys laughing at your lack of power, and simply dismissing you as a bygone relic of the history of Unix? Well, you might want to check this out:
http://the-brannons.com/edbrowse/
...and the monolithic user's guide.
http://the-brannons.com/edbrowse/usersguide.html#guide
"...I'm scared, hold me elisp." :D

[machinebacon]

It's a nice project indeed, I've been testing it (in LinuxBBQ "Free") as a kind of RSS reader for the blind, because it can extract lines and those can be piped into the speech engine directly.

[gurtid]

You can find lots of interesting stuff - some new, some old - on OneThingWell. I'm sure most of you know about that site/blog already.

Was reminded of mpv today; https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv
I'm already using it on OS X (Homebrew) since March, and it's also in the AUR. Don't think it's landed on Debian yet, though.

It's in debian now (not sure how long it's been there) . . . pretty cool replacement for the (dead ? :...() mplayer2. Worth giving it a spin . . . seems to run on some of my hardware but not on other stuff

[GekkoP]

Been using only that for a while now. Works smoothly.

[ivanovnegro]

I was not even aware of it, Pepper Flash is in the Debian repos for quite some time, so if you need it for Chromium, have a look:

http://packages.debian.org/en/sid/peppe ... in-nonfree

It should work like the Adobe plugin, that would mean you have to update it manually but I am not sure how it works because it downloads Chrome from Google, but you already use Chromium?

[kexolino]

^ I think it downloads Chrome to extract Pepper from it, since it's not downloadable from anywhere else, IIRC. Hopefully it removes Chrome afterwards...
edit: yeah, it says that in the description, but I still wonder what it does to Chrome after it's done installing

[kexolino]

Speaking of Chrome, here's FooTab, for those who miss the "Don't load tabs until selected" option from Firefox.