recoll – Desktop search tool

2018-07-02 1 min read Fedora
Name : recoll Version : 1.23.7 Release : 2.fc28 Arch : x86_64 Size : 2.1 M Source : recoll-1.23.7-2.fc28.src.rpm Repo : fedora Summary : Desktop full text search tool with Qt GUI URL : http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ License : GPLv2+ Description : Recoll is a personal full text search package for Linux, FreeBSD and : other Unix systems. It is based on a very strong back end (Xapian), for : which it provides an easy to use, feature-rich, easy administration : interface. Continue reading

sigil – ebook editor

2018-06-18 2 min read Fedora
sigil is WYSIWYG ebook editor, here are more details. Name : sigil Version : 0.9.9 Release : 2.fc28 Arch : x86_64 Size : 3.6 M Source : sigil-0.9.9-2.fc28.src.rpm Repo : fedora Summary : WYSIWYG ebook editor URL : https://sigil-ebook.com/ License : GPLv3+ Description : Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books : in ePub format. : : Now what does it have to offer… : : * Full Unicode support: everything you see in Sigil is in UTF-16 : * Full EPUB spec support : * WYSIWYG editing : * Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Split View : * Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries with : full descriptions for each : * Table Of Contents editor : * Multi-level TOC support : * Book View fully supports the display of any XHTML document possible under : the OPS spec : * SVG support : * Basic XPGT support : * Advanced automatic conversion of all imported documents to Unicode : * Currently imports TXT, HTML and EPUB files; more will be added with time : * Embedded HTML Tidy; all imported documents are thoroughly cleaned; : changing views cleans the document so no matter how much you screw up : your code, it will fix it (usually)

ranger – try terminal file manager

2018-06-11 1 min read Fedora Learning
ranger is a terminal file manager, just install and run and have some fun. Tip: You might want to try it on uxrvt terminal and in Photos folder once. Name : ranger Version : 1.7.2 Release : 8.fc28 Arch : noarch Size : 1.2 M Source : ranger-1.7.2-8.fc28.src.rpm Repo : @System From repo : fedora Summary : A flexible console file manager URL : http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/ranger/ License : GPLv3+ Description : Ranger is a free console file manager that gives you greater flexibility and a good overview of your files without having to leave your *nix console. Continue reading

glances – new way to look at contention

2018-06-04 1 min read Fedora
glances is like top/htop but little different. It shows you sort based on contention (smartly and automatically) unless you change that and hence if you just want to check what is biggest bottleneck in system, then head over to glances quickly. Here is quick description from dnf info command Name : glances Version : 2.11.1 Release : 2.fc28 Arch : noarch Size : 3.2 M Source : glances-2.11.1-2.fc28.src.rpm Repo : @System From repo : fedora Summary : CLI curses based monitoring tool URL : https://github. Continue reading

Some nice fonts in Fedora for coding

2016-12-26 1 min read Uncategorized
Here is link to fedoramagazine article on this: 6 great monospaced fonts for code and terminal in Fedora And what the article does not mention is how to install these from terminal. You can use the following command to install them all sudo dnf install levien-inconsolata-fonts.noarch \ adobe-source-code-pro-fonts.noarch mozilla-fira-fonts-common.noarch \ mozilla-fira-sans-fonts.noarch google-droid-sans-fonts.noarch \ google-droid-sans-mono-fonts.noarch nethack-bitmap-fonts.noarch \ nethack-bitmap-fonts-core.noarch

How To Install Ailurus On Fedora

2010-06-05 2 min read Fedora
For those who have not yet heard about ailurus: <img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ailuruslogo.png" alt="" width="24" height="24" />What is Ailurus? Ailurus is cross-Linux-<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linux_distribution" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">distribution <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnu_general_public_license" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPL <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/computer_software" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software, which aims at making Linux easier to use, for newcomers. <img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ailuruslogo.png" alt="" width="24" height="24" />What does Ailurus hope to do? Ailurus hopes to reduce the difficulty which newcomers encounter when they are using Linux. Continue reading