This is a weekly blog where I share my experiences of using the Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop replacement using free and open source software.
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Category: Desktop
Linux Candy: cacafire – Color ASCII Fire
The nights are drawing in. You want to feel warm and toasty. And nothing beats a log fire. cacafire displays burning ASCII art flames.
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Safe Eyes – protect your eyes from eye strain
Safe Eyes protect your eyes from eye strain using a simple and extensible break reminder. It’s designed to reduce and stop repetitive strain injury. It’s not just your eyes that need to take a break.
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Linux Candy: WallGen – image generator tool
Let’s start our candy adventure with WallGen. It’s a small command-line utility that generates HQ poly wallpapers with only a few text arguments for inputs. Depending on these arguments, you can create shape-based patterns, randomly filled surfaces, and even image-based patterns.
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GLava – OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer for desktop windows or backgrounds
GLava is an OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer primarily used for desktop windows or backgrounds. It’s free and open source software.
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Excellent Utilities: Tusk – Evernote desktop software
Tusk is billed as a feature-laden, open source, community-driven, free Evernote app used by people in more than 140 countries. Let’s put it this application through its paces, and why it warrants inclusion in our “Excellent Utilities” series.
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Real Linux Desktop Experience with X410 and WSL?
X410 is an X Window server for Windows 10. When you want to use X Window GUI apps on remote servers, simply run X410 and connect to your server via SSH with X11 forwarding. Here’s our review of X410 using ‘The Windows Subsystem for Linux’.
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KSmoothDock – excellent KDE Plasma 5 desktop panel with parabolic zooming
KSmoothDock is a cool desktop panel with parabolic zooming effect for KDE Plasma 5. While visually it is inspired by Mac OS X’s Dock, it aims to follow the traditional Linux model of desktop panel with the application menu, launchers, the pager, the task manager, the system tray and the clock.
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Excellent GTK File Managers to Manage your Filesystem
We recently visited 15 Qt file managers. This article reviews 15 Gtk file managers.
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Qt File Managers Roundup: Excellent Ways to Manage your Filesystem
It makes sense to use Qt based software with KDE. Benefits include memory savings, and better integration with the KDE desktop. However, if you prefer other desktop environments, these Qt file managers still work admirably. We review 15 Qt file managers.
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Latte – Excellent KDE Dock based on Plasma Frameworks
Latte is a dock based on Plasma frameworks that aims to offer an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and KDE Plasma widgets. It animates its contents by using parabolic zoom effect and tries to be as unobtrusive is possible.
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