Graphical substitute for the lp/lpr command. With xpp, you can control every printing option known to the CUPS print system (the cupsys package). Best results are available with usage of the appropriate PPD file for your printer. Each user can save their own customized printing preferences ( Read more... )

Installwatch is used to track the changes made during the installation of local (i.e. non-deb) software.
This is the package on which checkinstall depends that was recommended by Malte S. yesterday. It is just amazing how much useful and powerful software is out there just waiting to be discovered. And the amazing thing is it's all free to use and ( Read more... )

CheckInstall keeps track of all the files created or modified by your installation script ("make install" "make install_modules", "setup", etc), builds a standard binary package and installs it in your system giving you the ability to uninstall it with your distribution's standard package management utilities.

Suggested by Malte S.:
I think it's ( Read more... )

3D-Desktop is an OpenGL program for switching virtual desktops in a seamless 3-dimensional manner. The current desktop is mapped into a fullscreen 3D environment where you may choose other screens. Several different visualization modes are available. A window manager compatible with the GNOME pager standard is required ( Read more... )

Aiksaurus is an English-language thesaurus that is suitable for integration with word processors, email composers, and other authoring software.

Another suggestion from Andre L.:
Aiksaurus is an English-language thesaurus. When you lookup a word it gives you synonyms. To interact with it directly use either aiksaurus (command-line) or gaiksurus ( ( Read more... )

This is "Ding"

• a dictionary lookup program for Unix,
• DIctionary Nice Grep,
• a Tk based Front-End to [ae]grep, ispell, dict, ...
• Ding {n} :: thing

This package needs agrep(1) or egrep(1) as a back end. agrep is preferable, because it supports fault tolerant searching ( Read more... )

exiftran is a command line utility to transform digital image jpeg images. It can do lossless rotations like jpegtran, but unlike jpegtran it cares about the EXIF data: It can rotate images automatically by checking the exif orientation tag, it updates the exif informaton if needed (image dimension, orientation), it also rotates the exif thumbnail ( Read more... )

Guidedog is a KDE utility which allows to use easily activate and configure your machine for packet routing, Network Address Translation/IP Masquerading (NAT) and port-forwarding ( Read more... )

Guarddog is a firewall configuration utility for KDE. It is aimed at two groups of users: novice to intermediate users who are not experts in TCP/IP networking and security, and those users who don't want the hassle of dealing with cryptic shell scripts and ipchains/iptables parameters.
This is the first of two packages suggested by Martin S. where ( Read more... )

This is a followup to yesterday's kuvert package.
quintuple-agent serves as a cache for secrets, so that you don't have to enter them over and over again. You enter a secret once, and quintuple-agent stores it for a configurable timespan. Programs needing the secret can query the agent for it instead of bothering you ( Read more... )