Questions tagged [software-recommendation]
Questions asking for specific applications that perform a given task or work with a given file format. Give details about the **purpose** of the software you want and your minimum **requirements** for it.
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Alternative to ibus typing booster Ubuntu 18.04
Is there any alternative to Ibus typing booster for Ubuntu 18.04. I am not able to install ibus typing booster in Ubuntu 18.04. I have tried the solutions provided in askubuntu forum.
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Offline Ascii art editor
I use Ubuntu 16.04 and do not look for something like Graph_Easy which parses input, instead I look for some offline, free, WYSIWYG software that does tasks like what asciiflow does. For example these ...
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Countdown Timer to a specific day beside the clock in Ubuntu Menu Bar
I have tried searching for a countdown timer app which shall count the number of days till a specific date (for example, Christmas) so that it is visible to me all the time but, I'm not able to find ...
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How can I answer incoming Android phone calls in Ubuntu while still seeing their Caller ID?
I enjoy using Android Messages sending and receiving messages. But when my cell phone is in another room, I don't see when someone is calling me. How can I answer my cell phone through my computer? I ...
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Is there a tool for A/B audio-comparison?
I've been in this situation a few times where I would like to directly comare two audio files sonically to each other.
Maybe to decide on a different mix or to compare "full dynamic range" ...
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How to make newsboat autorefresh every minute?
I always have newsboat open in a terminal at the corner of my desktop. I would like newsboat to auto refresh every minute or so so i don't have to do it manually. Is there a way to do this?
I ...
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How Wine Works? [duplicate]
I'm new to Ubuntu, I need to run Quicken till I find a good replacement for it. Ii heard we can run windows apps over wine. So I install Wine and then over wine I install Quicken?
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Are there any keyboard dictation options comparable to FN+FN on MacOS for Ubuntu?
I'm currently trying to get someone with Dyslexia to try using Ubuntu as a main OS.
They're used to the keyboard dictation option available on MacOS that allows you to type anywhere with your mic by ...
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Chip Genius for Ubuntu
Do we have something like Chip Genius software to reset the USB drive? I have few USB sticks which are having some read only error. I tried fixing it with Gparted, Disks utility and a few other tools ...
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How can I move application windows with shortcut keys to the four quadrants of the screen in Ubuntu Mate 20?
I just installed Ubuntu 20 with the Mate desktop environment. As I have a 4K monitor, I'd like to move application windows quickly using shortcut keys so that four application windows occupy the four ...
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File Operations copying files
When copying files I don't see any copying progress.
What file manager shows copying progress like Windows Explorer?
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Which circuit simulator can be used in ubuntu 20.04?
I was searching quite a bit, but didn't find anything that would work. There is QUCS and a few other that work for older versions but some of the dependencies are not satisfied for newer OS platforms. ...
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I'm looking for a software I can use to screen share a window with audio
I'm looking for some software I can use to share my screen with people remotely. Initially, I had intended to use discord screen share, but it won't share my computer audio. I tried using google ...
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Is there any free dictation software for Ubuntu 18.04?
I'm looking for software that allows live dictation into a word processor like WPS Writer. It would also be great if it could somehow distinguish between background talking - e.g. a busy kitchen and ...
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Good program to cut out image regions manually
I have to process several hundred images manually. The work consists of cutting out square regions from the pictures. I want to save these regions. When saving, there should not be any loss of quality....
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Video capture of application window
I need to do a video capture of just a running application window, not the entire desktop.
Similar to the Nvidia Games Bar functionality in Windows.
Is there a 3rd party app that will do this in ...
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Alternative voxal app for Ubuntu with Persian language option ( opensource voice Photoshop app )
I like to know about alternative app like voxal as free and opensource voice Photoshop app with Persian language option, voxal introduction could be seen here.
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How can I plot data from sc in the terminal?
Using the sc (Spreadsheet Calculator) or (Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised) sc-im (more) I can manage spreadsheets in the terminal.
Is there a way to plot this data in the terminal, too?
I've found ...
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App Launcher for X11 (Xpra)
After using tigervnc for a while, and enjoying the Unity launcher favorites on the side, I switched to Xpra for a more seamless desktop experience. Launcher functionality would be nice, so I made a ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 | App to make live ISO?
I need an application similar to Pinguy Builder (which creates an installable ISO image of your current system) that works on Ubuntu 20.04
If there isn't one, is it possible to downgrade, make the ...
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Ubuntu WhatsApp desktop app with call features
I like to know is there any WhatsApp application for desktop or browser extension with video call ability in Ubuntu, i have tried this app and web base of WhatsApp that don't have call futures:
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How to reduce mouse pointer shaking? [closed]
The mouse pointer recently starts shaking. Seems there is a hardware problem. Is there any software to remove the pointer shake?
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Is there any Ubuntu software to draw math?
I recently bought a graphics tablet and I want to use it for solving my math homework on laptop. The picture presents what I want. Do you know any software (better foss) which I can use to deal with ...
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Alarm clock school bell type [closed]
Looking for an Alarm Clock for Ubuntu with the following:
It rings once and then stops like a school bell
All normal alarm stuff (schedule, etc)
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Launch Ubuntu Backup in Terminal [closed]
I've been searching for a tool (for Linux), that can "run" a backup of my server (filesystem) in my terminal. I've seen something like this a while ago, so I can't remember how this tools ...
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How to replace Diffuse?
Why was Diffuse left out of Universe repository of Ubuntu 20.04? What to use instead (if you don't want to use plain diff but a graphical software)?
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Software not allowed to access folders
I'm trying to tell audacity where my ffmpeg is seeing as it doesn't seem to want to do it iself but when I go to access the folder, /usr, it says permission denied. The same was true for something I ...
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Is there a tool to split a scanned PDF when reaching a separator page?
In our office, we have to scan a bunch of incoming documents every day. We do have a scanner with an automatic feeder which will save each scanned document to some fileshare on our network. Yet ...
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Is there a lightweight photo viewer made with Qt?
While the default photo viewer Gwenview is very good, it is also a file manager and has many other features. As a result it is not very lightweight.
Is there a very lightweight photo viewer (that ...
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Is there an application in Ubuntu to cast my android screen with sound?
Could there possibly be an application similar to 'Windows Connect' (which runs seamlessly on Windows for me) for Linux with Audio and Video both casted to the Laptop?
I know scrcpy which can be used ...
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Does XFCE/Xubuntu have a system monitor panel applet?
Gnome has a system monitor panel applet that can be seen even when all your windows are maximized:
Is there anything similar for Xubuntu / XFCE?
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Auto clicker that lets me select region and continue using the mouse elsewhere
All the other auto clicker apps/scripts I found, like xautoclick and xdotool, need me to leave my mouse in the position and then the auto click is done. But I'm looking for something like ...
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Visualizing protein-ligand interactions with LIGPLOT or any other suitable software?
I have used DOCK software to dock 10 ligands into the protein structure.
I want to generate a pdb file that contains all 10 binding modes of the ligands together with the protein. So all together in ...
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How do I restrict my kids' computing time (application based)?
I came from this similar question: How do I restrict my kids' computing time?
But I want to define a weekly computing time (e.g. 3 hours) for a specific application and the days when it's allowed ...
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Accounting Software? [duplicate]
I have asked before and am still trying to find a decent accounting program for Linux/Ubuntu. Not a checkbook program but something for small business accounting. I need to generate year end tax ...
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Ubuntu screen recorder with changeable camera background
i have seen this video:
so i think is there any kind of Ubuntu recorder to do this camera background remover at the recording time, in Ubuntu.
As which i think there is none by this effect, it can ...
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Are there stable open source apps that would work well for conferencing, larger meetings or teaching?
with all of this social distancing and work from home stuff I am curious what people use for large meetings? Open source would be preferred, as would stable. I am a teacher and would love to be able ...
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Is there any software for using mobile device as an air mouse for Ubuntu?
I just want to know if there is any software available as an air mouse(by air mouse I mean which you hover in air to move the cursor using the IR blaster in the phone). Is there is any development ...
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All-in-one app for communicators and JIRA
is some application which would use one interface for all communicators (Skype, Slack, Teams, Hangouts), and transfer only data through some API?
I believe this is how exactly works these ...
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Are there some Text User Interface programs for ffmpeg and other?
fdisk seems to have a Text User Interface via Cfdisk.
But I would like to know if there are some other useful tools like this for, let's say: ffmpeg and maybe some other like mail clients, other than ...
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Software to seamlessly edit multiple images
Format of my mom's old PC is overdue, W7 is slow and choppy and I'd love to show her how fast her laptop can be with a lightweight Ubuntu distro.
But my mom is really used to Microsoft Office Picture ...
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what is a good text editor for ubuntu touch? [closed]
I have ubuntu touch installed on an arm based andriod phone.
I have some files to edit, but using vim and nano is hard using the onscreen keyboard since I haven't figured out how to press the escape ...
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Custom screen dimmer
I seek for a night light / f.lux like application, which, roughly speaking, dims bright pixels, but leaves dark pixels nearly unchanged.
More generally, it would be best to have an application that ...
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Clipboard management GUI with ability to save images to file
Is there a clipboard management GUI where I can view the images in the clipboard and choose to save any of them to a file, all without using the command line?
I know how to save copied images to file ...
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reStructuresText (rst) viewer with Sphinx
So the title is already self-explanatory.
I am doing documentation with rst about my Python project. When using Pycharm I get errors so I tried using another viewer.
I tried restview but had the same ...
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Where do I find my personal files?
Obviously, I'm a newbie after 35 years on Apple. Without the rant, I've decided to convert to Ubuntu Studio and convert time previously with MacOS engineering problems and invest in learning the new ...
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On-screen keyboard for Kubuntu?
It seems that the only available option is matchbox-keyboard, but it's pretty useless without the ability to change the font size of the labels.
I'll nice for a change and not post my opinion of its ...
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Is there a music library player / manager that allows searching for strings in the whole path of music files, not just filenames or ID3 tags?
I organized my music, a long time ago, in folders. Searching for a folder's name, for instance "Girlfriend's albums" in Mediamonkey in Windows would show all mp3 files within that folder, and, ...
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GUI for Kaldi ASR
I'm a graduating student. Our group's thesis is about ASR. In less than a week, we're going to defend it. We've already produced a model for our ASR which we run on Linux. Our problem is we need a ...
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Is there any Screen Recording + Video Editing software like Camtasia for Ubuntu?
I like Camtasia because it got really handy features specially for making instructional videos or tutorials.
Though, I've found try installing Camtasia exe file on Ubuntu using Wine, but I'm not ...
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