[SLL] What do you use on your desktop?

[John Locke]

Post-holiday catchup... and diversion...

On 12/22/06, Jeremy C. Reed <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:
> Just curious ... what do you use on your main desktop?
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IBM Thinkpad T43

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> Operating system:

(K)Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy.

I've had absolutely no problems with it, either, other than in Gnome
the icons in the taskbars move around when I change screen
resolutions/hook up external monitors/tv/etc.

No problems upgrading a T41 from Dapper, either...

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> GUI (or console):
GUI.
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> X11 type/version:
Xorg 7.1. Mostly the free Radeon driver. I have a script to switch to
the proprietary ATI driver when I want to use GoogleEarth without
flickering or hook it up to the TV.

When I'm in the office, I'm hooked on dual monitors, using the Radeon
MergedFB setting to span my desktop across a (smaller) external flat
panel and the internal laptop display. Have actually had much better
success at this with the free driver than the proprietary one--the
proprietary one doesn't seem to like having different size screens in
any kind of Xinerama mode I can figure out...

Of course, there's an old 600Mhz desktop also connected to the
external monitor on a KVM switch, currently running Xubuntu.

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> Window manager:

Gnome and KDE (I switch back and forth regularly. Used to be KDE only,
but Gnome is getting nice these days, and things like laptop
suspend/thinkpad keys work out of the box better in Ubuntu than
Kubuntu...)
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> Desktop environment:
Metacity, Kwin. I do turn on Beryl now and then when I want to show
off, but it's not very stable on this machine, so I don't run it all
that much. (Would love to, but it's not worth the crashes).
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> Terminal:
Gnome-terminal or Konsole. Usually two windows with 2 or 3 tabs, all
logged into shells on remote servers, each with several sessions
inside a screen.
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> Email client:
Thunderbird, Evolution, and Squirrelmail in that order... IMAP is great.
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> Web Browser:
Firefox 2.
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> Audio player:
Amarok

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> Video player:
Kaffeine, with xine engine. Also DemocracyTV, great for subscribing to
video podcasts.
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> Editor:
vim for sysadmin stuff. ActiveState Komodo for coding/debugging.
MediaWiki for knowledge management.
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> Printing:
CUPS
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> Chat client:
Gaim or Kopete (almost never running--I'm trying to avoid distractions).
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> PDF and other viewer(s):
acroread primarily
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> File manager:
I prefer Konqueror--fantastic! But I use Nautilus in Gnome...
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> Photo Image viewer:
F-Spot for digital photo management. For quick views, whatever is
default under the current desktop environment...
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> Graphics editor:
Gimp
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> Miscellaneous:
Tomboy. Hooked on convenient sticky notes that link to each other.
OpenVPN Admin - secure connection to my VPN when I'm on the wireless
network and to my clients.
Network-Manager, knetworkmanager
WorkRave
OpenOffice
ReKall - quick and easy access to my core business database

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