Applications/Gnome Accessories (Recommendations)

brightside

Description: brightside is a small program that makes the corners and edges of your screen do something when you move your mouse pointer to them. For instance, you can set it to start your screensaver (and lock your computer) when you move the mouse pointer to, say, the bottom left-hand corner. You can set another corner for muting your speakers. You can enable brightside to make it so that, when you move your pointer to the edge of the screen, you flip to the next desktop.

Website: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightside

Installation: brightside can be found by selecting System-->Administration-->Synaptic Package Manager. Then you can do a search for 'brightside' and, when it comes up, select it for installation and apply. You'll likely need an internet connection for this to work.

For some reason, you may have to log out and then back into your Shift Gnome session for the 'Screen Actions' icon to appear in your System-->Preferences menu. 'Screen Actions' is what you use to customise this program to your liking.

If you want brightside to run automatically every time you start your Shift Gnome session, be sure to go to System-->Preferences-->Sessions and add an entry in the Startup Programs tab thus:

Name: brightside

Command: brightside

Works with: Shift Gnome

gdesklets

Description: gdesklets is a program that makes it easy to put all manner of clocks, calendars, weather, system tools, media tools, etc. Some of these little desktop programs are rather slick. Others are probably not worth the effort. The trick is to see which ones you like and use them, as every category has many possibilities.

Website: www.gdesklets.de

Installation: gdesklets can be found by selecting System-->Administration-->Synaptic Package Manager. Then you can do a search for 'gdesklets' and, when it comes up, select it for installation and apply. You'll likely need an internet connection for this to work.

An icon for the program will appear in your Applications-->Accessories menu allowing you to choose from a large set of gdesklets. Some better gdesklets can be found at www.gdesklets.de

If you want gdesklets to run automatically every time you start your Shift Gnome session, be sure to go to System-->Preferences-->Sessions and add an entry in the Startup Programs tab thus:

Name: gdesklets

Command: gdesklets start

Works with: Shift Gnome

glipper

Description: glipper is a small program that makes allows the clipboard to store more than one item at any give time. You tell glipper how many items it should keep in its history. And when you are running it, you can go back to items you copied before the most recent copy and you can access those items and insert them in your documents.

Website: glipper.sourceforge.net

Installation: glipper can be found by selecting System-->Administration-->Synaptic Package Manager. Then you can do a search for 'glipper' and, when it comes up, select it for installation and apply. You'll likely need an internet connection for this to work.

A menu item for glipper will then appear in Applications-->Accessories. Running it will cause an icon to appear in system tray (normally at the top right of the screen). Right-clicking that icon lets you select preferences.

If you want glipper to run automatically every time you start your Shift Gnome session, be sure to go to System-->Preferences-->Sessions and add an entry in the Startup Programs tab thus:

Name: glipper

Command: glipper

Works with: Shift Gnome

gmount-iso

Description: although it is actually not terribly hard to mount an ISO image by the command line interface, many will find the convenience of this GUI program appealing. It makes mounting and unmounting ISO images very simple indeed. Once installed, you'll find an icon for this program in your Applications-->Accessories menu.

Website: launchpad.net/gmount-iso/

Installation: gmount-iso can be found by selecting System-->Administration-->Synaptic Package Manager. Then you can do a search for 'gmount-iso' and, when it comes up, select it for installation and apply. You'll likely need an internet connection for this to work.

Works with: Shift Gnome

gnochm

Description: gnochm is a program that lets you view CHM files (these are old-style Microsoft Compiled HTML Help files). Installing gnochm makes it automatic that CHM files are opened at double-clicking. Once installed, you'll also find an icon for 'CHM Viewer' in your Applications-->Accessories menu.

Website: gnochm.sourceforge.net

Installation: gnochm can be found by selecting System-->Administration-->Synaptic Package Manager. Then you can do a search for 'gnochm' and, when it comes up, select it for installation and apply. You'll likely need an internet connection for this to work.

Works with: Shift Gnome