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Music on Console – console audio player

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Music on Console (MOC) is a full-screen audio player designed to be powerful and easy to use. It’s free and open source software.

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Freshfetch – fresh take on Neofetch

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Freshfetch is an alternative to Neofetch written in Rust with a focus on customization. It’s MIT licensed software.

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Foreign Languages

LibreLingo – language-learning platform

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Education

LibreLingo’s mission is to create a modern language-learning platform. This is free and open source software.

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Foreign Languages

Glossaico – language learning application based on LibreLingo

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Education

Glossaico is a language learning application based on LibreLingo. This is free and open source software written in Python.

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FVWM – ICCCM-compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

FVWM is a powerful ICCCM2 compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager for the X Window System. It was originally derived from twm.

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Compiz – OpenGL compositing manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features.

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Blackbox – window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Blackbox is a window manager for the X Window System. Its design is meant to be visually minimalist and fast.

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WindowMaker – window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Window Maker is a window manager originally designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop Environment.

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Sawfish – extensible window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Sawfish (formerly known as Sawmill) is an extensible window manager using an Emacs Lisp-like scripting language called Librep.

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Perroquet – prepare sequences of video or audio files, with subtitles

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Education

Perroquet is a free and open source application that allows users to prepare sequences of video or audio files, with subtitles.

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Stacking Window Managers

Pekwm – window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

The Pek Window Manager is a small, flexible window manager which was originally based on the aewm++ window manager.

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Foreign Languages

FLTR – Foreign Language Text Reader

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Education

FLTR is an open source application that helps you to do both extensive and intensive reading as part of your foreign language acquisition.

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Step into Chinese – language-mining tool

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Education

Step Into Chinese is a language-mining tool to assist English speakers seeking to understand the Chinese language.

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Openbox – window manager with extensive standards support

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Openbox is a window manager for the X11 windowing system. It was originally based on Blackbox and currently remains very similar.

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OpenTeacher – learn a variety of subjects

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Education

OpenTeacher is an open source application that helps you in learning a foreign language vocabulary. Enter words and be tested.

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Tagaini Jisho – Japanese dictionary and kanji lookup tool

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Education

Tagaini Jisho is a Japanese vocabulary and kanji dictionary that aims at presenting results in a way to create connections.

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IceWM – stacking window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

IceWM is a stacking window manager for the X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks.

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Foreign Languages

Learning with Texts – language learning software

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Education

Learning with Texts (LWT) is a tool for language learning, inspired by Stephen Krashen’s principles in Second Language Acquisition.

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Fluxbox – window manager for X

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Fluxbox is a window manager that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. It is very light on resources and easy to handle.

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Enlightenment – window manager and desktop environment

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

The Enlightenment (“E) window manager is a robust, flexible, highly configurable, graphically rich yet unobtrusive desktop environment for X.

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