Top 11-20 Ubuntu applications
You can find the first part here.
11. Avidemux – Easy to use video editing software.
12. Audacious – Music player based on XMMS that looks like Winamp, uses Winamp skins and has a lot of plugins available.
To install: sudo apt-get install audacious
13. Exaile – Music player that suppose to be similar to KDE’s Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python. I can’t make up my mind if i should use Audacious or Exaile, so i put them both here 
To install: sudo apt-get install exaile
14. gtk – RecordMyDesktop – Records your desktop and saves it, so you can post it to youtube or whatever.
To install: sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop
15. Envy – Auto install nvidia and ati drivers for Ubuntu.
Get it from here.
16. Ubuntu Tweak – Some tweaks for Ubuntu, like making the drives not show up on your desktop.
17. Yakuake – Terminal window that drops down, Quake-style, when you press a key.
18. BootUp-Manager – Choose what stars when you boot up into Ubuntu.
To install: sudo apt-get install bum
19. Conky – Desktop app that posts system monitoring info onto the desktop of your Ubuntu.
To install: sudo apt-get install conky
To configure it, make a configuration file in your home directory (Ex:-/home/ubuntuadmin)
called: .conkyrc
And paste config file you like from here (you can also find some screen-shots there).
To make it start with your system, and also make it integrate well, you’ll need to make a delay startup. You can create a file called .conky-startup.sh and paste this into it:
#!/bin/bash
sleep 15 && conky ;
then run in terminal: chmod +x .conky-startup.sh
after that, in System > Preferences > Session: Startup programs, click add and browse for .conky-startup.sh , add it and that’s it.
Here is a screenshot of my conky :
20. msttcorefonts – this is not a piece of software, but a tutorial to make fonts in Ubuntu antialiased, like in Windows.
You cand find all the fonts and other stuff needed and the tutorial here.
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Note: to be able to install, you need to make sure that you have a “universe” and “multiuniverse” mirror in your /etc/apt/sources.list (after that, to install most software you just need to type in the command).
You can get deluge deb files from deluge site: http://deluge-torrent.org/ (getdeb has not always latest version)
“11. Deluge BitTorrent Client – Best BitTorrent client for Ubuntu.”
I like Azureus better. I think they both are too slow, though.
Azureus eats a damn lot of memory
you know, instead of writing out “sudo apt-get install program” you can in fact make a link like “apt://program”. otherwise not too bad of an article.
Thanks. I had no idea about that, so i
ll go try it
Dude, can’t you just write GNU/Linux applications straight?
Is any of the software you mention Ubuntu-specific?
Oh yeah, Ubuntu-tweak… which is a frontend for cross distribution apps
well the install instructions are for ubuntu, so i write ubuntu in the title
Dude only one application is Ubuntu specific. You are only one of the several hundred (possibly more) ubuntu “fanboy” bloggers who are disrespecting the GNU/Linux philosophy . You should rename this post seriously… this applications work on most other *nix distros….. so it is very misleading….
i still don’t see the problem, so what if only ubuntu users read this? i could have said windows and then what would have been the problem? many think freud was crazy but a lot more other people agree with him
i’m an ubuntu fan, yeah so i write ubuntu not linux. better go complain to microsoft websites, not people that make ubuntu popular
no the problem is that you are claiming that this are Ubuntu specific applications while they are not they are indeed Linux (or Posix)….. specific applications….
they work on ubuntu thus i can make a top apps that work on ubuntu list. you can say your favorite windows app is firefox even though firefox works on mac and linux too :p (that was the only good software one could install in windows in my oppinion btw
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Would you be so willing as to share your conky config file?
i’m not at home right now, but when i’ll get home i’ll post here a link to my conkyrc file
Awesome! Thanks a lot.
Here it is: http://rapidshare.de/files/40140412/conkyrc.zip.html
Very nice your conky config… but some time is passed and the link doesn’t work anymore, could you share it again?
Thanks!
It has changed a bit in the mean time, but i’ll post a link tonight when I get home
Sorry for the delay, here is my new conky file: http://drop.io/odu4rey (the file inside it it’s called .conkyrc so obviously it will be hidden, so be aware of that)
Taken. Thank you!
You’re welcome
Sorry to bother you again… but seems to me that the archive is empty. (It contains only an empty directory named .conkyrc) Please could you check?
Extract it and it will unzip only a .conkyrc file, not folder. Press ctrl + H on your keyboard to see it (files beginning with a dot in linux are hidden files). I extracted it myself right now and the file is there.
Ok solved. It was a bug of the extractor (file roller 2.26.1 on jaunty). Extracted it with file roller 2.22.3 on a Hardy system and it was ok!