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Answer : Try Cinelerra. Cinelerra is the most advanced non-linear video editor and compositor for Linux. Cinelerra also includes a video compositing engine, allowing the user to perform common compositing operations such as keying and mattes. Cinelerra To download click here. (Edit: or install on 12.04 with the following commands.) sudo apt-add-repository ppa:cinelerra-ppa/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install cinelerra-cv Also you can try OpenShot. OpenShot has many great features, such as trimming and arranging videos, adjusting audio levels, transitions between videos, compositing multiple layers of video, chroma-key / green screen effect, and support of most formats and codecs. What really sets OpenShot apart from other video editors is the easy-to-use user interface. OpenShot To install OpenShot, just press Ctrl + Alt + T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa sudo a...

Answer : Check out Hammerspoon. It seems to be very fully featured and — like AutoHotkey — offers a programmatic way to do all sorts of OSX automation, in addition to key binding/remapping. (It takes a plugin based approach. Karabiner, mentioned in an answer above, can be used as a plugin too allowing its functionality to be enhanced in all sorts of ways.) http://www.hammerspoon.org/ I recommend Keyboard Maestro which lets you set up macros with various actions that can be triggered with keyboard shortcuts or other triggers. I use Karabiner. It is a bit of a pain to customize (it uses XML), but it is just as powerful as AHK. It can also move the mouse.

Answer : htop it is a terminal app: sudo apt-get install htop htop htop with graph mode ProcMeter3 Look for this system monitor (GUI works with GTK1,2,3): ProcMeter3 An utility which works with LCD devices even. ProcMeter3 GUI on GTK3 Psymon Also once I tried a Psymon . This is not extremely lightweight software and written on Qt (not GTK , and therefore should work better with KDE) though despite to this fact it works well not only with Unity and Gnome, but also in other OS, like FreeBSD, MacOS, Windows etc., because it use great python-psutil Debian package. So look it closer: Nice post about Psymon Psymon project site Psymon You can try xfce4-taskmanager from Xfce or lxtask from LXDE. Neither of them pull any specific dependencies. ndicator-SysMonitor Indicator-SysMonitor does a little, but does it well. Once installed and run, it displays CPU and RAM usage on your top panel. Simple. Download from here Conky One of my personal favourites ...

Answer : There is now a blog entry about Taking Screenshots in a Snap . It's built into Mac OS. ⌘ + ⇧ + 3 captures the whole screen ⌘ + ⇧ + 4 captures a custom rectangle (click and drag over the screen region you want to capture) ⌘ + ⇧ + 4 then space captures a specific window (move the mouse cursor over the desired window, then click) Press esc to cancel. Screenshots are saved onto your Desktop and timestamped. Holding control in addition to any of the sequences above causes the image to be copied instead of saved to the desktop. By default the image format is png . However, you can change the format by typing in the Terminal : defaults write com.apple.screencapture type image_format killall SystemUIServer Where image_format is one of jpg , tiff , pdf , png , bmp or pict (among others). If you omit the second line, you will need to log out and in again for the change to take effect. The settings for the shortcuts in the system preferences are ...

Answer : If you're willing to disable System Integrity Protection to continue using TotalTerminal, you can do that. If not, the developer of TotalTerminal says the reason he stopped working on it is that he switched to iTerm 2, which he says "offers similar functionality to Visor and comparable features to build-in [sic] Terminal.app." I've never used either, but another question on this site explains how to set up iTerm to work in a similar manner.

Answer : I don't know if paid software can be recommended, but after testing a lot of free tools, I finally decided to go for Beyond Compare. Meld was my previous choice but abandonned it due to instabilities during merging of very large folders. There are plenty of tools for this, here are a few with a GUI: xxdiff Meld * beediff KDiff3 * Diffuse * fldiff * They all do pretty much the same thing, but the first two possibly offer the best user experience. Those with an asterisk are available from the Software Centre. If you like Winmerge very much and would like to continue to use it in Ubuntu like me, you can do that by using Wine Windows Program loader to install Winmerge and run the program. It runs very well for me. I find none of the above GUI tools that come with Ubuntu to be as good as Winmerge. Maybe I am too biased for Winmerge :-)

Answer : Yes, there is an alternative to the Ubuntu Software Center named appgrid . It's a very lightweight application center for Ubuntu and it will let you purchase applications too. You can install it in Ubuntu with these following commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:appgrid/stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install appgrid It was only a 100KB download for me. Comparison between appgrid and Ubuntu Software Center: Feature | appgrid | Ubuntu Software Center -------------------------------------------------------+----------+----------------------- Programming language | Python 3 | Python 2 Warm start to home screen | 2.7s | 20s Warm start to details screen (eg opening an apt: link) | 2.3s | 30s Full database build | 58s | 6min24 Initial database size | 36.7MB | 96.5MB Me...