Cool but Obscure X11 Apps

• NsCDE

  64 1,820 7.1 CSS

  Modern and functional CDE desktop based on FVWM

• systemd

  510 12,457 10.0 C

  The systemd System and Service Manager

  

Lennart earned himself a reputation for thinking his own shit doesn't stink, closing bugs against his software as NOTABUG or WONTFIX even when his software was flagrantly at fault.

Here is one particularly egregious and clearcut example: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6237

tl;dr: a systemd service configured to run as a user who's username started with a digit (e.g. the username '0day') would instead run as root. Lennart initially closes the bug report and refuses to fix it because he thought such usernames weren't acceptable, despite the kernel and most linux utilities permitting it and handling it gracefully. A good engineer with a shred of humility would take this report seriously, even if he thought other systems shouldn't be permitting the circumstance. To see the lead engineer of a project so important to linux take such a childish stance on a security-related bug was infuriating and demoralizing.

This is just one example, which didn't take anybody by surprise. It's his modus operandi. May the gods have mercy on Microsoft for hiring him.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• XEphem

  1 129 6.6 C

  The Serious Interactive Astronomical Software Ephemeris

  

• xlander

  1 8 3.3 C

  lunar landing simulation for X

• Solaris-8

  1 11 5.1 CSS

  A GTK theme based on the OPEN LOOK desktop bundled with Solaris 8

  

• xpra

  50 1,387 9.9 Python

  Persistent remote applications for X11; screen sharing for X11, MacOS and MSWindows.

  

One of my favorite bits of software is Xpra [0], "screen for X". You'd run it and it would start another X server (start apps in it with `DISPLAY=:1 xterm` or whatever), and you would "attach" it to your running X server with `xpra attach`.

You can attach to e.g. `ssh://hostname/:1`, so I ran a firefox instance on a homelab server and attached to it from my laptop and my desktop to not have to bother keeping bookmarks, tabs etc in sync.

[0] https://xpra.org/

• xsecurelock

  13 852 3.3 C

  X11 screen lock utility with security in mind

  

Anyone here use https://github.com/google/xsecurelock?

I found it while going through reddit.com/r/unixporn and looking at other peoples tiling window manager setups.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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