See also: Slackware, How I set up new computers with Slackware Linux. This list is to remind myself of less-often-used software and also to list my favorites for others to consider. You might also notice that this is a pretty short list. That’s the idea! I like to limit my dependencies. And I often do without! I’m sure I’m missing a few. I’ll try to keep this up to date as I think of them. I’m still using Vim, but have been very tempted by Kakoune and Helix. I’m currently not using plugins and I’ve started making my customizations simple shortcuts to shell scripts. This page is being written in Vim 8 right now! So valuable to keep long-running sessions valid when connecting to machines via SSH. I often work a little bit at a time on a program with a tmux session kept alive on my little basement computer as described here. I’ve got some notes on using tmux. In my experience, it’s best to learn it a little bit at a time. I’ve barely scratched the surface of its abilities. Pretty much the only thing you’d ever need to copy (and sync) large or small numbers of files locally or over a network. I use this utility constantly and hardly even think of it as being separate from a proper Unix system! I’ve got some some notes on rsync. And an upcoming personal project that relies on it. I symlink xfce4-terminal to /usr/bin/st so DWM will open it when I hit the Super-Enter combo. I’m sure there are more featureful terminal emulators and there are certainly ones with names that roll off the tongue a bit easier. But xfce4-terminal has been a workhorse for me for years. It’s light and fast and it comes with Slackware. A really cool thing I’ve recently set up is the automatic creation of a whole session of terminal tabs with labels: xfce4-terminal-automation. Read even more about that in my blog post. You can also open new windows as well as tabs and specify options for them. It’s fantastic and there’s probably a lot more I could do with this. It’s lightweight, fast, and does all the normal things with graphically displaying files you’d expect. Update 2024: I love the command line as much as the next person, but managing removable media by manually typing mount/unmount has got to be one of the lamest things I do on Linux systems. Like, I really can’t justify it to myself, let alone Windows/Mac people who might be watching. There is a slackbuild for this, but the "right" way to use it is to compile it yourself. It’s the "suckless" way. I’ve tried many grep alternatives. This one hits the features/performance sweet spot for me. Written in C. It just works. Extremely useful screenshot utility with basic editing and annotations. I love it so far. It won’t be windowed in your tiling window manager by default, so you may need to enforce this with your WM. How do we get the "class" of a GUI application? There’s a handy utility for that. And then click on the window you want to know about. The answer appears in the terminal. This is a wonderful tool for figuring out what’s using your drive space. It’s extremely fast, works in the terminal, and the controls are completely intuitive to me. Oh, and it’s also an extremely handy way to navigate around, safely delete files with weird filenames, and even spawn a shell in a specific subdirectory. I use this for email and feed reading. It’s not perfect, but it’ll do! R) to re-wrap them, preserving the quotation formatting. https://buzzinguniverse.com/members/reasontree60/activity/176984/ : Shortly after writing this page, I started test-driving Claws Mail. It’s a GUI application like Thunderbird, but does plaintext email only. There’s no tricky setup to avoid HTML mail because Claws doesn’t do HTML mail. I’ve also just now installed Aerc and am about to test-drive that as well.