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====== 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 ===== Solaar ===== Linux devices manager for the Logitech Unifying Receiver. Normaly the logitech-djreceiver driver should already be enabled and loaded, you can check on that by typing viewing dmesg right after pluging in the unifying receiver, it should output something like: <code> dmesg [21449.244283] usb 1-1.1.2: new full-speed USB device number 11 using ehci-pci [21449.357947] usb 1-1.1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=c52b [21449.357955] usb 1-1.1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [21449.357959] usb 1-1.1.2: Product: USB Receiver [21449.357962] usb 1-1.1.2: Manufacturer: Logitech [21449.368092] logitech-djreceiver 0003:046D:C52B.000F: hiddev0,hidraw5: USB HID v1.11 Device [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:04.1-1.1.2/input2 [21449.371256] input: Logitech Unifying Device. Wireless PID:101a as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.1/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1.2/1-1.1.2:1.2/0003:046D:C52B.000F/input/input18 [21449.371521] logitech-djdevice 0003:046D:C52B.0010: input,hidraw6: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Logitech Unifying Device. Wireless PID:101a] on usb-0000:00:04.1-1.1.2:1 </code> Also, the udev package must be installed and the daemon running, which is probably the case since it's the /dev/ and hotplug management daemon... You'd already have noticed if it wasn't there ;-) Create a file solaar.list in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, with the following contents: <code> sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sollr.list deb http://pwr.github.io/Solaar/packages/ ./ deb-src http://pwr.github.io/Solaar/packages/ ./ </code> The update your packages descriptions and install: <code> sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install solaar </code>
