Handy Must Know Linux Applications

[mxc]

Don't forget

* Blender,
* Open shot,
* gpodder &
* Eclipse/NetBeans for C/PHP/Java/Ruby etc IDE

PHP Training

[ponder]

Pinta light drawing/editing app.

[grahamjohn]

I downloaded ubuntu studio edition, its evry nimble, but it does take some getting used to, I will stay on dual boot for now...need freehand, though freehand 9 runs on wine i hear, how do you get freehand ver 9 though!!!

[ginggs]

I downloaded ubuntu studio edition, its evry nimble, but it does take some getting used to, I will stay on dual boot for now...need freehand, though freehand 9 runs on wine i hear, how do you get freehand ver 9 though!!!

Have you tried Inkscape?

[ponder]

Having recently moved from years of M/Soft, and now using Ubuntu (11.04), I am looking for an app that will enable me to do screen captures, and in particular one where I can use the cursor to draw a rectangle around a portion of a screen, and save that portions as a JPG / PNG / etc. file.
Any recommendations for a simple app?

xfce4-screenshooter is small and does exactly what you want.

http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/app...-screenshooter

[ginggs]

xfce4-screenception:

[reneg8or]

i would like to move over to linux full time but it's just not graphics friendly enough yet. so far the audio player that works the best for me is Exaile but i would like to find something closer to MediaMonkey or Foobar (both windows apps). on the graphics app front Inkscape is very good, i use it over adobe illustrator on windows, the gimp however is close to useless as a professional image editor.

uTorrent - Deluge BitTorrent Client
Dos emulator - ScummVM (for those old games)
IDE - Aptana

Clementine is also a very nice media player - Give it a try.

Graphic designers may find Xsara Extreme useful.

[lostWinner]

uGet - Download Manager

uGet is an Open Source download manager application for GNU/Linux developed with GTK+, which also comes packaged as a portable Windows app.

uGet uses very few resources while at the same time packs an unparalleled powerful feature set. These features include a Queue, Pause/Resume, Multi-Connection (with adaptive segment management), Mirrors (multi-source), Multi-Protocol, Advanced Categorization, Clipboard Monitor, Batch Downloads, Individualized Category Default Settings, Speed Limiting, Total Active Downloads Control, and so much more!

http://uget.visuex.com/

[bdt]

Perhaps tangential (but only slightly) to the thread: Noobs Lab, whereon I found things like:

• install Cinnamon on Ubuntu
• Ringtail (13.04) post-install tweaks
• UMPlayer, apparently somewhat decent
• And check out the list of tutorials too

[Fantastic_Dan]

emacs, anyone?

[elf_lord_ZC5]

emacs, anyone?

Nah!!

vi

[Fantastic_Dan]

Nah!!

vi

Ha, well, to each their own. I just couldn't imagine this extremely long thread didn't mention emacs once!

[Maverick Jester]

xfce4-screenshooter is small and does exactly what you want.

http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/app...-screenshooter

xfce4-screenception:

Ta, will use this myself!