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Simple program to edit screenshots (add texts and arrows, mark stuff) on Linux
Flameshot
Super easy to use. I mapped it to my PrtSc.
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Simple Markdown viewer for Ubuntu (standalone program, not something that requires usage of an internet browser)
Okular
Okular has a Markdown backend, which allows it to display Markdown-formated text. On Debian-based systems (like Ubuntu) you might have to install the okular-extra-backends package to use it.
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Simple Markdown viewer for Ubuntu (standalone program, not something that requires usage of an internet browser)
pandoc -s filename.md | lynx -stdin
This doesn't meet the requirement of "... or anything else that requires usage of browser", but the browser runs in a terminal in text mode.
https://pandoc.org/
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Simple Markdown viewer for Ubuntu (standalone program, not something that requires usage of an internet browser)
Following is copy of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9331281/how-can-i-test-what-my-readme-md-file-will-look-like-before-committing-to-github#40696607 by Brian Burns
Atom works nicely out of the ...
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Simple Markdown viewer for Ubuntu (standalone program, not something that requires usage of an internet browser)
There is also an amazing one here on GitHub appropriately named Glow... It's absolutely lightweight. You don't even need to leave the terminal. Works on Linux, Mac and Windows.
Here's a simple ...
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Media player on Linux
VLC is the ultimate media player.
Install the Ubuntu default repository version:
sudo apt install vlc
Install the latest version (has Blu-ray support):
sudo snap install vlc
How to make a ...
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Software to batch OCR multiple image files to multiple text files using Tesseract?
In Bash:
for file in FILES ; do tesseract "$file" "${file%%.*}" ; done
where in place of FILES, you should write a series of file names like image456.jpeg image457.jpeg image458.jpeg, or a glob ...
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Simple Markdown viewer for Ubuntu (standalone program, not something that requires usage of an internet browser)
Remarkable
Features:
Live preview
It's free.
Extremely lightweight
Export to HTML, PDF
Download: https://remarkableapp.github.io/
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Which software can I use to browse a MSSQL database?
Not sure if this will work for you, but you could try:
DBeaver
https://dbeaver.jkiss.org/download/
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Debugger for C for Linux
Code::Blocks is a cross platform IDE which gives you a GUI wrapper to gdb, as well as providing a lot of development help - it is free, gratis & open source.
You can:
Set breakpoints
Step ...
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Keycast alternative in Ubuntu 16.04
You can use Screenkey.
For terminal, you can try showkey but it prints to Standard output only.
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Simple Markdown viewer for Ubuntu (standalone program, not something that requires usage of an internet browser)
In Ubuntu 20.04, install from the bundled apt repos:
sudo apt install ghostwriter
Pros:
bundled in official Ubuntu repos
binary executable rather than a script
Cons:
on life support - not even bug ...
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Program to take photos with webcam in Ubuntu
You can do that with any video player that supports ffmpeg's libavdevice library, or video4linux directly, and have ability to take screenshots, in general. Or even ffmpeg's ffplay itself. Let's take ...
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simple lightweight reliable method to send notifications to ubuntu over internet
My suggestion would be to use a chat app such as Empathy or even Discord. Both will send GNOME pop-up notifications and are trivial to install.
Otherwise you could always make an email for just this ...
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Ubuntu command line client for JIRA
I've been working on (and using) this command-line utility for the past few months since I was looking for a similar tool but couldn't find any to satisy my needs. It is still a work in progress and ...
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IDE for C, Ubuntu
I have been a profession embedded programmer for "a few" decades.
Eclipse is what I have always used, in industry, when developing under Linux.
There are probably others, some may even be "better" ...
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Is there a way to multiple users share the same machine simultaneously?
There is something on Ubuntu called MultiSeat:
a single machine that supports multiple concurrent users each with
their own set of keyboards, mice, and monitors providing a traditional
desktop ...
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Ubuntu File Manager, replacement for Nautilus
You might look at Nemo (https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/07/how-to-replace-nautilus-with-nemo-file.html), which was forked from Nautilus before Nautilus was 'simplified' to death. I don't know if ...
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Good screen recorder with Audio for Ubuntu 22.04
You didn't try the by far most popular option - OBS Studio.
To get the best audio results:
add proper source for your input device, e.g. microphone
add filters to the created source to process the ...
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Ubuntu YouTube music player with playlist search and download
Olivia is a opensource(github link) online/offline cloud based music player like iTunes, Spotify, Youtube Music etc, Olivia allows you to search any music online stream it, You can set player to save ...
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Screen record and mouse tracking
In Linux, I'd use gtkRecordMyDesktop for the recordings. AFAIK it doesn't support logging of mouse location, etc. though.
However, the linux program cnee does log X11 events and data. It can even ...
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Monitoring PCI Express bus usage
I believe this can be accomplished with the Intel Performance Counter Monitor (PCM) tools: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-performance-counter-monitor. As of v2.5 it supports PCIe ...
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Extremely simple job scheduler
gnu parallel should be fully sufficient here. E.g. this command:
parallel -j1 --joblog logfile time :::: joblist
reads your jobs from the textfile "joblist", where each line is regarded as one ...
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UNIX environment variable manager?
To change the environment variables the most usual tool is the default editor, (vi/emacs/whatever), applied to the .bashrc or other environment setting script that is run on login but you can, ...
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Music player supporting resumption after close
Clementine is my preferred music player.
It fits all your needs and many more.
Resume playback (check)
Support playlists (check)
Be able to open an m3u playlist (check)
Be able to open a directory as ...
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Music player supporting resumption after close
Audacious supports resuming playback in the song, position in that song, and the playlist in which the song was located once you open it again and press the green play icon in the toolbar to resume ...
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job scheduling and automatization with custom parameters
Check out https://dataportfol.io, I think it satisfies all your needs.
As for your required features, DataPortfolio has:
A job-execution framework and scheduler - run jobs manually, on repeat or ...
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Snap window shortcuts in Ubuntu Gnome 17.04
By way of this answer, I found the gtile gnome-shell extension. So far it seems really good! You can check out the docs on github but it's quite powerful.
The keyboard shortcuts are a little ...
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First person shooter for Ubuntu
Any of the Quake series, Urban Terror or anything else based on the Quake3/io engine, Xonotic.
I'll recommend Xonotic of them all though... http://www.xonotic.org/
If you don't mine playing via web ...
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Screen recorder for Ubuntu 18.04 (Wayland)
You can achieve this with peek and key-mon.
Install them:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:peek-developers/stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install peek key-mon
Then start them:
key-mon --visible_click
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