Application(s) of the Day

martix · 2018-04-28 19:40:41

"The Linux Connection Manager project provides a daemon for managing Internet connections within embedded devices running the Linux operating system. The Connection Manager is designed to be slim and to use as few resources as possible."

If I'm not mistaken, it does not have to be an embedded device as it would work basically on any configuration. Still: I rarely see ConnMan in use, mostly there are network-manager, wicd or sometimes ceni installed. How come? There is even a gtk-gui and also a qt-gui with systray icon called cmst.

hhh · 2018-04-29 22:26:43

Never heard of it before, nice find.

DeepDayze · 2018-04-29 22:52:46

martix wrote:

There is ConnMan.
"The Linux Connection Manager project provides a daemon for managing Internet connections within embedded devices running the Linux operating system. The Connection Manager is designed to be slim and to use as few resources as possible."
If I'm not mistaken, it does not have to be an embedded device as it would work basically on any configuration. Still: I rarely see ConnMan in use, mostly there are network-manager, wicd or sometimes ceni installed. How come? There is even a gtk-gui and also a qt-gui with systray icon called cmst.

LXqt uses ConnMan but can work with NetworkManager instead if you choose.

PackRat · 2018-04-29 23:02:47

martix wrote:

There is ConnMan.
"The Linux Connection Manager project provides a daemon for managing Internet connections within embedded devices running the Linux operating system. The Connection Manager is designed to be slim and to use as few resources as possible."
If I'm not mistaken, it does not have to be an embedded device as it would work basically on any configuration. Still: I rarely see ConnMan in use, mostly there are network-manager, wicd or sometimes ceni installed. How come? There is even a gtk-gui and also a qt-gui with systray icon called cmst.

It's what I use. Reliable and much lower memory footprint than NetworkManager and wicd.

DeepDayze · 2018-04-29 23:20:09

PackRat wrote:

martix wrote:
There is ConnMan.
"The Linux Connection Manager project provides a daemon for managing Internet connections within embedded devices running the Linux operating system. The Connection Manager is designed to be slim and to use as few resources as possible."
If I'm not mistaken, it does not have to be an embedded device as it would work basically on any configuration. Still: I rarely see ConnMan in use, mostly there are network-manager, wicd or sometimes ceni installed. How come? There is even a gtk-gui and also a qt-gui with systray icon called cmst.
It's what I use. Reliable and much lower memory footprint than NetworkManager and wicd.

Does ConnMan work with VPN connections like NetworkManager? I do know Wicd does not have builtin VPN support.

martix · 2018-04-30 16:08:39

^It does work with VPN, there is even a connman-VPN package in the debian repos. Thanks for mentioning LXqt, that's really interesting if a distro uses it instead of the network-manager.

PackRat · 2018-04-30 16:40:45

DeepDayze wrote:

PackRat wrote:
martix wrote:
There is ConnMan.
"The Linux Connection Manager project provides a daemon for managing Internet connections within embedded devices running the Linux operating system. The Connection Manager is designed to be slim and to use as few resources as possible."
If I'm not mistaken, it does not have to be an embedded device as it would work basically on any configuration. Still: I rarely see ConnMan in use, mostly there are network-manager, wicd or sometimes ceni installed. How come? There is even a gtk-gui and also a qt-gui with systray icon called cmst.
It's what I use. Reliable and much lower memory footprint than NetworkManager and wicd.
Does ConnMan work with VPN connections like NetworkManager? I do know Wicd does not have builtin VPN support.

Connman has a connman-vpn cli/daemon, but I've never used it.

DeepDayze · 2018-05-01 01:00:28

PackRat wrote:

DeepDayze wrote:
PackRat wrote:
It's what I use. Reliable and much lower memory footprint than NetworkManager and wicd.
Does ConnMan work with VPN connections like NetworkManager? I do know Wicd does not have builtin VPN support.
Connman has a connman-vpn cli/daemon, but I've never used it.

Cool I will test this out on a stock install in a VM. If ConnMan works well, maybe this could be used in Lithium as an option?

Last edited by DeepDayze (2018-05-01 01:02:53)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2018-05-01 06:01:00

DeepDayze wrote:

If ConnMan works well, maybe this could be used in Lithium as an option?

BunsenLabs already has ifupdown and systemd-networkd available as alternative connection methods, I don't think we need another one.

grapefruit · 2018-06-04 19:00:04

A feature-light lightweight alternative to redshift.

sct

sct wrote:

Set screen color temperature
sct is a small C program to change the screen color temperature. It can be used to reduce or increase the amount of blue light produced by the screen.
sct sets the color temperature of the screen via xrandr like redshift. Unlike redshift, it is only 80 lines of C and will not change the screen temperature automatically.

Use:

$ sct 4000

or assign a keybind:

    <keybind key="C-A-Down">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>x-terminal-emulator -T 'sct' -e sct 4000</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>

Last edited by grapefruit (2018-06-05 05:07:43)

ohnonot · 2018-06-05 04:14:31

grapefruit wrote:

A lightweight alternative to redshift

that's misleading.
sct has none of the automated/daemon and geoIP functionalities of redshift.
it just changes the screen's colour temperature as specified on the command line, and exits.

that said, i use & prefer it (inside a small self-written "daemon") over redshift.

i realised that i need the shift to warmer tones at least an hour before i go to sleep, but that's at the same time in summer or in winter (if i have to work the next day that is).
so at least the geographical location feature is pointless for me, and suddenly redshift looks much less nifty.

PS:
grapefruit, i just realised that you posted a software recommendation to some sort of help thread.
we have at least one thread "handy command line stuff" or such, that is better suited for this.

Last edited by ohnonot (2018-06-05 04:19:54)

grapefruit · 2018-06-05 05:06:50

Correct, on both counts.

I've amended my post,

In my defence, I did include what the program actually does, so a quick read would reveal to what extent it is an alternative.

Also, could a mod move my post to the correct place, and maybe the few above it mentioning ConnMan (which is what threw me)?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2018-06-05 06:04:09

DeepDayze wrote:

If ConnMan works well, maybe this could be used in Lithium as an option?

The Devuan packages should be installable in BunsenLabs: their ASCII branch is compatible with Debian stretch and BL-He.

EDIT: oh, it's in Debian, I must be getting confused :8

The stretch package can be installed in BunsenLabs Helium.

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2018-06-05 06:05:32)

johnraff · 2018-06-05 07:31:04

ohnonot wrote:

grapefruit, i just realised that you posted a software recommendation to some sort of help thread.
we have at least one thread "handy command line stuff" or such, that is better suited for this.

I was wondering, we could perhaps use a dedicated thread for app recommendations? Little things that don't justify a whole thread. Maybe "Try this app!" or something?

If so, a mod can move the relevant posts over from here.

hhh · 2018-06-06 01:01:51

johnraff wrote:

Little things that don't justify a whole thread. Maybe "Try this app!" or something?

I'm worried that would become a ridiculously long thread of everyone's flavor-of-the-month program, but I'm not against giving it a try. I'm sure some interesting applications would get posted.

ohnonot · 2018-06-06 05:59:09

hhh wrote:

a ridiculously long thread of everyone's flavor-of-the-month program

oh, there's nothing wrong with that.
give folks an outlet!
bread and circuses!

Head_on_a_Stick · 2018-06-06 06:10:40

Thread split.

altman · 2018-06-06 11:03:55

Thx matrix, never heard about it, might give it a shot.

johnraff · 2018-06-09 04:34:20

Just found this, translate-shell https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell
Available in the Debian repos as translate-shell too.

Seems to work really well, including speech conversion, lots of cli options.
I'm going to bind it to a key combo and wrap it with xsel, to translate anything on the desktop - much more versatile than a browser extension.

(Small glitch - 0.9.5 Deb version tacks string " null" to the end of the output. Either strip it out in your script, or update to the latest version from GitHub.)

Last edited by johnraff (2018-06-09 05:03:12)

ohnonot · 2018-06-09 08:09:25

johnraff wrote:

Just found this, translate-shell https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell

a wrapper to
a) highlight text
b) press keybind
c) see translation in yad window

#!/bin/bash

xclip -o | trans -e google -b \
| tee >(yad --geometry=300x300 --text-info --wrap) >(xclip -i)
exit 0

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