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Re: New on the market / Fresh from the repos

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Re: New on the market / Fresh from the repos

Unread post by GekkoP » Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:45 pm

^ interesting, thanks. Curious about it. 4.10 already works pretty well for everything I need.

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Re: New on the market / Fresh from the repos

Unread post by machinebacon » Mon Feb 16, 2015 6:59 pm

add the 'xfce next' repos from siduction, they fix stuff quicker than unstable
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Re: New on the market / Fresh from the repos

Unread post by GekkoP » Mon Feb 16, 2015 7:06 pm

Thanks for the tip.

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Re: New on the market / Fresh from the repos

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Tue Feb 17, 2015 10:56 am

Finally some news on Xfce.

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Re: New on the market / Fresh from the repos

Unread post by bones » Tue Feb 17, 2015 1:22 pm

Because you can never have too many media players:

http://mpv.io/

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Re: New on the market / Fresh from the repos

Unread post by GekkoP » Tue Feb 17, 2015 2:15 pm

^ my regular video player since months :)

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Re: New on the market / Fresh from the repos

Unread post by bones » Tue Feb 17, 2015 2:47 pm

^ Nice. This means you must like it! :)

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Re: New on the market / Fresh from the repos

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Tue Feb 17, 2015 2:51 pm

^ It means that mpv is not so fresh anymore. ;) It is the new kid on the bloc after mplayer2 got unmaintained.

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Re: New on the market / Fresh from the repos

Unread post by dkeg » Tue Feb 17, 2015 3:37 pm

I thought we were all already using MPV?

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Unread post by wuxmedia » Tue Feb 17, 2015 3:41 pm

^ oh I'm not!
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Re: New on the market / Fresh from the repos

Unread post by dkeg » Tue Feb 17, 2015 3:42 pm

It works great!

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Re: New on the market / Fresh from the repos

Unread post by bones » Tue Feb 17, 2015 4:33 pm

Dammit, I missed the memo. :)

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Unread post by Dr_Chroot » Wed Feb 18, 2015 12:27 am

Have used it for a while... can watch my Chinese cartoons with subtitles so I love it :D
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Re: New on the market / Fresh from the repos

Unread post by wuxmedia » Wed Feb 18, 2015 7:46 am

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  libavdevice55 libavfilter5 libglu1-mesa libguess1 libopencv-core2.4 libopencv-imgproc2.4 libsdl2-2.0-0 libtbb2
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slightly heavy on packages, still better than VLC. ;)
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Re: New on the market / Fresh from the repos

Unread post by wuxmedia » Wed Feb 18, 2015 7:50 am

^ found it.
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Re: New on the market / Fresh from the repos

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Sun Mar 01, 2015 8:29 pm

Finally light-locker is in the Debian repos:

https://packages.debian.org/search?suit ... ght+locker

If you are interested and you use lightdm, toss it on top of your new and shiny Xfce, LXDE, etc. desktop.

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Re: New on the market / Fresh from the repos

Unread post by bones » Fri Apr 03, 2015 5:25 pm

Not "fresh," but another cli tool for screenshots, with one less dependency than scrot (giblib)...

maim (make image):
https://github.com/naelstrof/maim

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Re: New on the market / Fresh from the repos

Unread post by machinebacon » Sun Apr 05, 2015 12:38 pm

@wux, I think it can already be used when you add weston as window manager. Has been a while, didn't impress me. I will stay with X and fb as long as possible. :D
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