Useless apps
Useless apps
Posted Aug 30, 2005 17:03 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: Note that X.Org has its own modularization project by stef70
Parent article: Fedora: RFC: X.Org X11 modularization project - rpm package driver naming
Hey! I still use xcalc! Those newfangled calculators look fancy, but xcalc supports RPN mode. Must be time for a grumpy editor's guide to on-screen calculators...
Posted Aug 30, 2005 17:25 UTC (Tue)
by stef70 (guest, #14813)
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Nevertheless, most of the new X11 users are now running a desktop like KDE or Gnome and can probably live without ever starting any of those applications.
Posted Sep 1, 2005 0:35 UTC (Thu)
by darktjm (guest, #19598)
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To be honest, I occasionally use some of those old X11 applications (xset, xdpyinfo, xhost, xrefresh, xkill, xgamma). Hardly xcalc! I would rather use 'bc' or one of the matlab clones such as octave. Useless apps
Funny, I never realized xcalc supported RPN (never bothered reading the manual for something I thought was a too-simple calculator). Then again, it says "HP10C", which implies 4-item stack limit, which is too little for me (I started RPN w/ forth and moved to HP28 & its successors, which have "infinite" stacks). There are a large number of other X calculators that support RPN, though (alas, many are very heavy, but that's modern software for you). The ones I know of from back when I wanted something for my PDA: galculator, which looks a lot like a better, slightly programmable, xcalc (complete with 4 item stack limit), pgcalc, which can look a lot like a real HP calculator, but isn't even remotely, and doesn't seem to support X paste, grpn, which is RPN-only, and of course various HP calculator emulators and lookalikes. I just use a real HP calculator on my desk when I don't need cut & paste and bc or sh $(()) (algebraic, but dirt simple) when I do need cut & paste. Plus, as noted above, there are even heavier apps for calculation, like scientific number crunchers and CASs.
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