Table of Contents
Software fights
Missing features of some software vs others.
If you don't agree with something, please tell me in the discussion at the bottom how to do it with this software.
Terminal
Mrxvt
- no sessions
- no nice corrected colors
- cannot scroll back while stuff is being written to the console
- cannot use X clipboard, and impossible to paste X-copied text
- cannot type accents
Konsole 3
- not very light
- no real window-clear (shift-enter)
- does not keep the working dir when opening new tab
- does not update tab title with current command
Konsole 4
- not very light
- no customizable shortcut for real window-clear (shift-enter)
- does not preserve custom tab title, and doesn't show complete program in window title like konsole 3 does
Text Editor
Notepad++ (wine)
- not native
- loses focus for search
- current function list plugin do not display struct
- integrated console not very efficient
Kate
- cannot change comments font
- current function is not highlighted in function list
- no whole word only in find in files
- do not hightlight all occurrences of selected word
- lack of edition shortcuts (ctrl-d…)
- cannot print tab and space symbols
DVB Player
Features I'm looking for:
- timeshifting with ringfile
- livebuffer
- autocrop
- zoom
- responsive channel switch
Feature | Kaffeine | VDR |
---|---|---|
EPG | not working | ok |
autocrop | yes | yes |
zoom | yes | yes |
Kaffeine
- EPG not working
- switching channel is slow
- not running as a daemon, has to be started for timers
- does not support ringbuffer timeshift
- does not support livebuffer
- no remote instant record
- no fast rewind, no sound in fast forward, loops when catching back current time
DVR
- cannot zoom
- does not support ringbuffer timeshift
- no real GUI
- loses “sticky” status when toggling fullscreen
- no fullscreen remote button
- no sound in fast forward, pause/rewind/forward not very reactive
Media Player
To manage music library.
Amarok
- regularly crashes
SongBird
- no good lyrics plugin (synced lyrics + stored in local file)
- bug to play tracks with accents in filename
- play queue not automatically updated
Dual Display
Xinerama
- have to restart X to enable/disable the second screen
Twinview
Separate screens
- cannot drag windows from one screen to the other one