Tools for the terminal

[MyWorld]

It seems that is has been a slow day and a bit on the Linux front, everyone has come to terms with Ubuntu and Unity, etc, etc, so how about we spice things up a bit?

Here is some terminal based apps that you can try out just for the kick of it:
http://www.tuxarena.com/?p=1084

I can HIGHLY recommend htop, as must have app.

Personally I'm using/trying out moc atm, it has been years since I listened to some music, enjoying it.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Cool, got most of them and just installed cmus - actually been looking for something like this as currently I use mplayer in the command line to play my music

 

[ocky]

Yes htop is lovely - you can do a strace with it.

 

[<?php?>]

Thanks for the link, I'm going to tryout aaxine...

 

[ocky]

http://www.swftools.org/

In the repos of lucid.

Can even take a pdf and convert to swf withzoom and page back/forward buttons.

Say you have downloaded a pdf, have no viewer, but need to read it.

1) Install swftools package
2) Download rfxview.swf (http://www.jesusda.com/blogpics/howt...wf/rfxview.swf)

Then it's easy. Place the rfxview.swf in the same directory as the pdf.
If your pdf is named 1.pdf and you want to name the output swf my.swf type in the terminal:-

pdf2swf -B rfxview.swf -o my.swf 1.pdf

(where -B option links to the rfxviewer.)

You will get something like this with zoom buttons and page back/forward buttons and scroll bar ...

 

[nahoR]

nethog is pretty cool, shows which processes use how much bandwidth