Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon .:|:. useful programs

[struppi]

Hello @all,

I have to say, that i am not really a newbe anymore, because i am now
using Ubuntu for nearly 2 years.
I got some experience in this time, but also i want to know more and more

at the moment i use Ubuntu 7.10, Gutsy Gibbon with Openbox as Windowmanager.
as panel i use pypanel, and for the informations i can get from my pc, i use conky.
My Office Application is OpenOffice.org 2.3
and i have set an Eterm onto my Desktop.
I read my E-Mails with Thunderbird, and plan my Time (oO --> use it as calendar) with Sunbird

so i have a question: Are there any useful programs i maybe can need?
or do you know better programs, for example instead of Sunbird.

furthermore i want to excuse my english, but my mother-tongue is german, so
it's a little bit difficult to write correct sentences, but i try to.

thank you in advance
struppi

[bigtomrodney]

Welcome to the forum struppi

What kind of things would you like to do? In terms of favourite applications mine are Amarok, K3b and Inkscape at the moment. I'm not a great man for graphics but I love vector art.

[struppi]

thanks for your quick answer!

for music i have audacious, i think it's the best player of all i tested.
but i have a problem here, my audacious is white (skin)
but i have installed the same program, with apt-get on the last version of ubuntu
(7.04, Feisty Fawn) and it was black. i liked the black one more, and don't know
if its an other version, or just an other skin. the black one looks somehow like xmms
and it has a blue x in it maybe you know.

hmm... what am i looking for? at the moment i try to find out, how to embed
this special icon/program which is in gnome-panel into pypanel.
the icon/program i search is installed at my laptop, but i don't know what's the name.
if you look at the gnome-panel, there is a network-symbol at the right upper corner.
if you rightclick it, you can select WLANs and connect to them.
if you leftclick it, you can configure that thing.
maybe you know what program that is, (because kde networking-programs like wifiradar or wlanassistant don't work somehow with the router at my home. i think it's the WPA Personal encryption. this program does instead)

now i have configured my WLAN Card with: network-admin (you have to type in
the network name and the password.
the program i search shows me those networks the card can see.

thank you in advance
struppi

[i92guboj]

thanks for your quick answer!

for music i have audacious, i think it's the best player of all i tested.
but i have a problem here, my audacious is white (skin)
but i have installed the same program, with apt-get on the last version of ubuntu
(7.04, Feisty Fawn) and it was black. i liked the black one more, and don't know
if its an other version, or just an other skin. the black one looks somehow like xmms
and it has a blue x in it maybe you know.

Look the audacious and/or xmms themes on your package manager. They are usually packaged on a separate package that you can install if you want. Then you can change the theme from the audacious configuration dialog.

[bigtomrodney]

Well the applet you are looking at is nm-applet, the network manager monitoring applet. I don't have much experience with pypanel but I hope the app name can be helpful at least.

[struppi]

thak you for the tip, i looked for it, with "apt-cache search audacious" but the
only things i found were:

root@apollo:/usr/src/audacious-1.5.0# apt-cache search audacious
audacious - Small and fast audio player which supports lots of formats
audacious-crossfade - Audacious Plugin for Crossfading / Continuous Output
audacious-dev - Audacious C++ shared library development files
audacious-plugins-ugly - Unsupported plugins for audacious
libaudacious5 - Audacious C++ shared library
xfce4-xmms-plugin - xmms control plugin for the Xfce4 panel
audacious-plugins - Base plugins for audacious
audacious-plugins-dev - Audacious-plugins development library and header files
audacious-plugins-extra - Various extra plugins for audacious

nothing like "themes" there... so do you know which sources i have
to write into the sources.list?

i show you my sources.list, maybe its helpful:

# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb Index of /ubuntu gutsy main restricted
deb-src Index of /ubuntu gutsy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb Index of /ubuntu gutsy-updates main restricted universe multiv$
deb-src Index of /ubuntu gutsy-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb Index of /ubuntu gutsy universe
deb-src Index of /ubuntu gutsy universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb Index of /ubuntu gutsy multiverse
deb-src Index of /ubuntu gutsy multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb Index of /ubuntu feisty-backports main restricted universe mul$
deb-src Index of /ubuntu feisty-backports main restricted universe$

deb Index of /ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
deb-src Index of /ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
deb Index of /ubuntu gutsy-security universe
deb-src Index of /ubuntu gutsy-security universe
deb Index of /ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
deb-src Index of /ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse

## gutsy backports
deb Index of /ubuntu gutsy-backports main restricted

## virtualbox
deb Index of /debian gutsy non-free

maybe you can help me, that would be very nice.

Andy