Tag Archives: lightweight programs for linux

Multiple Python programs upgraded to next versions

Power-Manager QT is upgraded to support systemctl commands. It has “Are you sure” dialogs on every entry now. https://github.com/postman721/Power-Manager-QT

Vol2x-Reloaded is upgraded. It gains awareness of system sound & microphone levels: https://github.com/postman721/Vol2X-Reloaded

Albix (Pyqt5+Pygame music player). Is upgraded to next version: https://github.com/postman721/Albix

RunIT-QT Browser 0.7 released

RunIT Browser (QWebEngine version) has reached its 0.7 version.

Notable improvements/changes:

new
  • Youtube and Netflix confirmed working on almost complete full screen mode.
  • Homepage is now pointing to StartPage search engine.
  • Window is resized to be larger and more useful from the beginning.
  • Addressbar improvements: google.com AND www.google.com AND https://google.com will resolve. -> https is auto appended into the front.
  • More verbosity added to statusbar(notices go back, go forward etc. functions on tabs).
  • UI is styled to be darker than before.
  • Tabs now have titles in them.
  • Back, forward etc. Now upgrade urlbar address like they should.
  • Ecosia replaces Wolfram Alpha on search engines.

Source code and more details are available at the Github: https://github.com/postman721/RunIT-QT_QWebengine

Runner-QT v.2 arrives

19th of May 2017: Runner-QT is upgraded to version 2. Dependencies remain the same. Interface is simplified and intuitive. There is also less code now  (about 46 lines).  Runner-QT v.2 should fit nicely to all kinds of desktops by default.

Dependencies:

sudo apt-get install python-pyqt5 python python3

Run the program: python /home/some_person/some_folder/something.py

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Calendar application (QT4) and a current time (Gtk) are here

Here are two applications I have recently made. The first one, PostX-Calendar is a QT application, which will certainly be featured in the future PostX Gnu/Linux 0.4 release coming in late 2016. The second one, is a basic time shower: “Current Time”, which does what is says and displays the current time.

time python, pygtk show time, pygtk clock, python clock, python show date

Current-Time

python calendar, linux calendar, calendar for linux, pyqt calendar

PostX-Calendar

Download Current-Time and PostX-Calendar combined zip archive file: Calendar_Time.zip

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