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Cool, but Obscure X11 Tools (dabamos.de)
31 points by Aldipower 21 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 17 comments



I would not call gvim obscure, but I always wonder why people do not recommend NEDIT for newbes on Linux.

I have xconsole running now, I have cron jobs that echo out stats to it every so often. It is a very nice and lite conky replacement.

And a few of these I still use, like xv, xload, xclock, xterm, xless, xmessage and xmahjongg. A few I never heard of.

It is too bad all these cool little tools will be gone for Linux once Wayland becomes a thing.


These would be incredibly light, resource wise. Is there a reason they can't be run on a compatability layer?


AFAIK, NEdit doesn't support Unicode.


Why would something like xmahjongg go away?


Because eventuality Xorg will be gone, so once that happens xmahjongg will not longer work. And to me, xmahjongg is the the best of these type games.

Yes I know wayland as a X emulation, but that will probably be removed once wayland is fully adopted.


The way things are looking, we'll see full Wayland migration just after full IPv6 adoption.

One day...


I remember "xbill" as one of my more famous applications. :-)


Wow! A couple of real flashbacks listed.

There were so many calculators in the list, I'm surprised there was no mention of NONPAREIL:

https://nonpareil.brouhaha.com/

I use it for the HP-41CX emulation, but it emulates a lot of HP calculators from that era...


I use xterm and xclock every day. Many others, such as xmag, xfontsel, xedit etc. are also on my regular rotation.

Programs like these may seem simple today but they're often very fast, efficient and to the point.


Now you can upgrade to cat clock!

What I once used at work was XScreenSaver, getting a lot of admiring views/comments from passers-by.


This list I think is from 1995 but with modern install methods. makes me think this is a 30 year old page that's being maintained.

I used xwpe for a few years in the 90s.


"Tools" is a bit of a stretch for many of these. Can't believe this is the first I'm hearing of xoj.


xeyes for "finding my cursor" ;)


Also for a quick display forward test


Great list! Was hoping to see XPilot on there, that game needs to come back!


What about xconq?


Lol, xbill.

xev is a cool tool for analyzing input events. A modern alternative is something like KWin Debug Console > Input Events.




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