List your suite of desktop apps!

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The great thing about being a user of FreeBSD (or other FOSS operating systems) is that we have so many desktop applications. Not everyone uses the same ones and there's endless combinations, so in this thread tell us what desktop apps you use. A desktop application can be something like your sound mixer, image viewer, terminal, file manager, email clients/web browsers, and pretty much anything else essential to the desktop experience. Here's mine:

Audio/Multimedia
Volume Icon - audio/gvolwheel
Mixer - audio/gtk-mixer
Music Player - multimedia/audacious + multimedia/audacious-plugins (compiled without Pulse or ALSA)
Video Player - multimedia/vlc

System/Security
Terminal - sysutils/lxterminal
Clipboard - deskutils/parcellite
System Monitors - sysutils/htop, x11/xfce4-taskmanager
Screensaver - x11/xscreensaver
File Manager - x11-fm/pcmanfm (Also used for the desktop background and pinboard)
Password Management - security/keepassxc

Text Editing / Word Processing / Office
IDE - devel/geany
Text Editors - editors/jed, ee
Office Suite - editors/libreoffice

Graphics
Image Editors - graphics/gimp, graphics/inkscape
Image Viewer - graphics/gpicview
Screenshooter - deskutils/lumina-screenshot

Network
BitTorrent Client - net-p2p/qbittorrent
Web Browser - www/firefox
Email - mail/claws-mail
 
I'm feeling quite lazy (sorry) so here's a screenshot of A–C:

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To the left, the Favourites are not truly my favourites. I sort of mis-use this area for some things that are less often used.

Most of my true favourites appear as recent applications in the dashboard. The shortlist: Code - OSS, Dolphin, Firefox, Gammy, GKrellM, GNU Image Manipulation Program, GTK-Mixer a.k.a. Audio Mixer, KCharSelect, Konsole, LanguageTool, Okular, Recoll, Spectacle, Thunderbird.

For links please see <https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/547372>, ta.
 
hunter0one said:
The great thing about being a user of FreeBSD (or other FOSS operating systems) is that we have so many desktop applications. Not everyone uses the same ones and there's endless combinations, so in this thread tell us what desktop apps you use. A desktop application can be something like your sound mixer, image viewer, terminal, file manager, email clients/web browsers, and pretty much anything else essential to the desktop experience. Here's mine:
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Many, but some of my favorites:

deskutils/cairo-dock and deskutils/cairo-dock-plugins
x11-clocks/cairo-clock
deskutils/freeplane
www/firefox
mail/thunderbird
sysutils/gnome-system-monitor
x11/mate-terminal
graphics/atril
graphics/gimp-app
net/wireshark
editors/libreoffice
graphics/shotwell
graphics/darktable
deskutils/gnome-screenshot
multimedia/minitube
audio/shortwave
multimedia/obs-studio
databases/pgmodeler
games/kblocks
games/aisleriot
multimedia/vlc
x11-fm/caja
security/keepass


etc...
 
xterm
xclipboard
xeyes
xwd
xcalc
xclock
xedit
xload
xfig
xpaint

(All bound to the left mouse button on twm)

How nice to have a new thread on Desktop!!!!

There are endless combinations, as OP said. I hope this thread will be also endless.
 
Mine.

Audio/Multimedia
Volume Level - VOL=$( mixer -s vol | awk -F ':' '{printf("%s",$2)}' ) @ DZEN2 bar
Volume Control - Mouse Buttons 6 and 7 @ Logitech M720 + Physical Volume Buttons on ThinkPad W520
Music Player - multimedia/deadbeef
Video Player - multimedia/mpv
Music Editor - audio/audacity

System/Security
Terminal - sysutils/xterm + sysutils/urxvt + sysutils/sakura
Clipboard - plain X11 SECONDARY and PRIMARY buffers without any additional software
System Monitors - sysutils/htop + gstat(8) + top(1)
Screensaver - x11/xlockmore
File Manager - x11-fm/caja + x11-fm/thunar (used mostly as Bulk Rename tool)
Password Management - security/keepassxc

Text Editing / Word Processing / Office
IDE - devel/geany
Text Editors - devel/geany + editors/leafpad + editors/vim + vi(1)
Office Suite - editors/libreoffice + editors/gnumeric
Calculator - math/galculator
Calendar - ncal(1) + cal(1)
PDF - graphics/mupdf + print/pdftk + sumatra 2.5.2 @ WINE

Graphics
Image Editors - graphics/gimp + graphics/inkscape
Image Viewer - graphics/viewnior + www/firefox (for *.webp images) + xnview @ WINE
Screenshooter - graphics/scrot

Network
BitTorrent Client - net-p2p/transmission-gtk
Web Browser - www/firefox + www/chromium
Email - webmail @ www/firefox + mail/thunderbird
Network Management - network.sh

Regards.
 
My main home desktop machine is:
  • mutt
  • irssi (and a shed load of bridges for whatever hype webchat people use today)
  • tmux
  • (n)vi +hacks
  • git & cvs (for general backup, not just software. The scripts are possibly a bit cheesy ;))
  • rtorrent
  • bash
  • texlive (in a jail because it is fairly messy)
  • xpdf (in X11)
  • mplayer (in X11)
  • Custom sdlvnc (in X11) + Bhyve (Recently migrated from VirtualBox) + Win7, Acrobat 9 Pro, Photoshop CS6, MS Office 2003, Rational Rose 7 and Firefox. Reverts each boot to keep clean / security.
My work machine is similar but with an assortment of Jails containing development tools and libraries.
 
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grahamperrin said:
Please, how so? I see this, in the package message (after installing):



– but I can't guess how to get a preferences dialogue. I experimented with right-click in various contexts.
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Odd, you should be able to get a "Preferences", "About", and "Quit" option if you right click.
 
hunter0one said:
Odd, you should be able to get a "Preferences", "About", and "Quit" option if you right click.
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Unfortunately not. I wondered whether the context menu was hidden as a result of side placement of the panel where I have the system tray. I temporarily created a widget with the system tray, still, no context menu:

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It responds to a normal click, but not right-click.

I killed it, used KRunner to start it – gvolwheel & – no improvement. It's OK, I'm happy without it :-)
 
grahamperrin said:
Unfortunately not. I wondered whether the context menu was hidden as a result of side placement of the panel where I have the system tray. I temporarily created a widget with the system tray, still, no context menu:

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It responds to a normal click, but not right-click.

I killed it, used KRunner to start it – gvolwheel & – no improvement. It's OK, I'm happy without it :)
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Hmm, I havent used Plasma in a long time so Im not sure. Unfortunately there isnt even a CLI option to access the Preferences menu. Might be issue-worthy. Glad to help :)
 
roper said:
… a desktop app? …
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For what it's worth, I took the phrase desktop apps quite loosely.

Like, I never open a window to Gammy, it simply does what's required, just rarely (maybe once or twice a week) I use its content menu to quit and set pure gamma. It's less a desktop application, more a thing that's excellent for my desktop environment.

HTH
 
- multimedia : MPV, Gwenview, mod, strawberry.
- texte editor : Emacs (doom) for my work and vim for rapid editing.
- office suite : Libre Office , xournal
- text processing : LuaMetaTex (newest version of ConTeXT)
- file manager: Dolphin , NNN
- Archive manager: Ark
- web browser: brave , Firefox.
- gaming: Dolphin ? emulator
 
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