====== Desktop Utilities ====== There are a lot of little applications that offer valuable services when it comes to enhance the general ease of use of the system, specificaly in the Desktop Environment. ===== ClipIt - Clipboard History Manager ===== Having the possibility to record a clipboard history is one of my number one priority. It's a feature I cannot live without and, thankfully, a great solution exists for Linux Mint LMDE, it's called [[http://clipit.rspwn.com/|ClipIt]]. As unfortunate as it is, it seems the project has stopped during summer of 2012 as the GNOME 3 "mess" seemed to have turned the maintainer away from this project... Too bad, but, hey, it's not that important since there is an incredibly easy way of installing it on LMDE: through the **Software Manager**! {{ :applications:desktop:software_manager-clipit.png?direct&200 |}} Double click on the first line, click the "Install" button... A few seconds later you'll have "ClipIt" available in your "Applications > Accessories" menu. ==== Using ClipIt ==== Openning the ClipIt application won't do much, you'll simply get a new **pasteboard icon** in your panel: {{ :applications:desktop:clipit-panel-icon.png?direct&200 |}} Click on this icon and visit the "Preferences" and "Manage history" menus, this should be enough to let you understand what ClipIt can do to ease your tasks ;-) ===== Hamster - Time Tracking ===== A time tracker is another "desktop utility" that is of great use to someone (like me) who has to track the time spent on different activities on the machine. Once again the project doesn't seem maintained at the moment, but it does what I expect from it and isn't it the point? Looking for "Hamster" in the "Software Manager" application shows me it can install version: 2.91.3+git20120514.b9fec3e1-1. Well the last version on github is 1.03.3 8-O...\\ Anyways let's avoid the burden of manual install this time, use the "Install" button in "Software Manager" and get it working! ==== Using Hamster ==== <WRAP todo>TO BE COMPLETED</WRAP> ===== KeePass2 - Passwords Manager ===== Software Manager => Search "KeePass"\\ Select KeePass2 => Install ===== Remmina - Remote Desktop Viewer ===== Software Manager -> Search "remmina" Select Remmina -> Install ===== Mouse and keyboard ===== It was difficult to decide wheteher the mouse and keyboard utilities should fit in the "desktop utilities" or "tricks" category. Who cares after all as, even if they finally made it into the "tricks" section, you can [[[[tricks:mxmouse|read all about them here]].