pavucontrol -simple GTK based "mixer" for PulseAudio
Additional packages
qtdesktop - Will pull in various "Must have" Qt applications :-
juffed - Simple tabbed text editor
nomacs - Lightweight image viewer
qlipper - Lightweight clipboard history
qterminal - Advanced terminal emulator
quiterss - QuiteRSS - RSS/Atom aggregator
qupzilla - Web browser based on WebKit core
qxkb - Qt keyboard layout switcher
qpdfview - Tabbed PDF Viewer
screengrab - Screen grabber
clementine - A cross-platform Music Player based on Amarok 1
smplayer - Complete Frontend for MPlayer
speedcrunch - A calculator with history display
vlc - multimedia player for various audio and video formats
qbittorrent - A Bittorrent Client built with C++ / Qt4
Installation using zypper
Add repo
open comman launcher(Alt+F2) and open terminal using command ("gnome-terminal") and run following command:-
sudo zypper ar -c -f -n 'QtDesktop_openSUSE_12.3' http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/QtDesktop/openSUSE_12.3/ QtDesktop_openSUSE_12.3
Install Packages
Run in the following command in terminal to install the desktop
sudo zypper in razorqt pavucontrol qtdesktop
Razor-qt Overview
At first time login, Razor-qt provides a dialogue box with a list of window managers and I chose Openbox
The default desktop looks conservative with a touch of gloss. The analog clock adds a nice touch to the desktop.
We see a traditional main menu (Alt+F1)
Lot of plugins / applets can be added to panel by right clicking on it. We can see Application Menu, Quick Launch, Task Manager, Colour Picker, Lock Tool, CPU Usage tool, Network Usage tool, Show Desktop tool etc.. added in the screenshot below
Each plugin on panel can be customised. Task Manager can be customised to make opened applications look like squares instead of rectangles.
Desktop icons / items can be added by creating launchers inside ~/Desktop folder by using commands like "gnome-desktop-item-edit 1.desktop"
Razor runner makes launching applications keyboard friendly (Alt+F2).
Razor Configuration Center
The Razor Settings applet / plugin on the panel is very useful in configuring the desktop. "Razor Session Configurator" can be used to make applications like Artha(Dictionary tool) to start along with the desktop.
To change themes we need to use both "Openbox Configuration Manager" as well as "Razor Appearance Configuration" .
"Razor Shortcut Configuration" can be used to create keyboard shortcuts to launch applications easily using keyboard.
Qt Applications
SpeedCrunch is a cool calculator which has lot of inbuilt formulae
qBittorrent makes a powerful torrent downloader. qpdfview is a cool lightweight pdf viewer with "tabs" support.
JuffEd is a good text editor and NoMacs does a good job as image viewer
QupZilla makes a wonderful webkit based browser and has variety of features like AdBlock, RSS reader, Cookie Manager and web inspector. It also has a good collection of inbuilt themes.
SMPlayer and VLC (Audio & Video players) play almost anything you throw at them.
To configure mouse settings from command line we can use an utility called "xinput". The manual for xinput defines it as a utility to list available input devices, query information about a device and change input device settings. i.e. xinput can be used to configure a variety of input devices like mouse, keyboard etc...
List Connected Devices
On a GNOME 3.x desktop we can open command launcher (Alt+F2) and then use the command "gnome-terminal" to open terminal.
To list all the devices connected to a machine we can run the following command in terminal xinput --list. In the following screenshot you can find that an optical mouse is connected to the machine and assigned a "device id 8".
Enable and Disable the device
Sometimes we don't want mouse movement to bring up a machine from sleep. To disable the input device(mouse), we find the device id by listing all devices as shown above. After finding the device id of the mouse (8) we can run the following command in terminal to disable the mouse xinput --disable 8. Similarly to enable mouse again we can run the command xinput --enable 8. To make things more convenient we can set keyboard shortcuts for these commands as shown below
Switch mouse buttons from right handed to left handed
I for one use, "left handed" mouse settings . I find that on some "light weight" desktops, GUI based mouse settings are often not available which makes changing mouse settings a hassle. xinput comes to the rescue in these cases. To get the default mouse button mapping the following command can be used :- xinput get-button-map 8. To change the default mapping from right to left you can use the command xinput set-button-map 8 3 2 1. The following screenshot shows the demo.
The above setting made through terminal will last only for one login session but, we can "apply" this setting every time we login by plugging the relevant command into the ~/.profile file in "home" directory as shown below.
