Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Some Useful And Some Not So Useful X11 Apps" video.

  1. 9:46 Two screensaver modules I find particularly fun are “BSOD”, which is a collection of system crash screens from more different OSes than you have heard of, and “XAnalogTV”, which puts up a random picture as though it is being shown on an old TV set with really bad over-the-air analog reception. That latter one does an amazingly faithful recreation of all the crappiness that you used to see on actual TV: noise, ghosting, distortion, rolling, you name it.
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  2. 3:49 That looks like the Lego Duplo of calculators ...
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  3. 3:27 It’s not just themeable. According to the man page, you can create your own UI for it using Athena widgets.
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  4. 4:11 Just checked the man page, and there is no option for a twenty-four-hour analog display. For shame! :(
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  5. I know a friend of a friend who’s blind. He doesn’t try to use GUI apps on his Linux systems at all; he does everything through the command line.
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  6. 4:35 Hey, that’s close to the classic “Xerox PARC” look. ;)
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  7. A handy one for those doing tutorial videos on various apps is key-mon. This puts up a little floating window that indicates keystrokes and mouse clicks. Stick this in a convenient corner of your screen as you record, and your viewers can see what you are typing or what mouse buttons you are clicking, without your having to spell it out all the time.
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  8. Which seems kind of pointless, given that all the good Linux-based apps offer more direct automation scriptability anyway.
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  9. I would look for alternatives to the bad ones. The open-source community tends to weed them out anyway.
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  10. I like to use Jupyter these days for scratchpad calculations. More powerful than any handheld calculator.
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