POST installation / Companion Applications

 

Note: Commands and package names are from a CentOS 7.7+ Distribution. Translate to your fav. Linux Distribution

Screen Saver : classic xscreensaver

$ su 
yum install xscreensaver xscreensaver-base xscreensaver-extras xscreensaver-extras-base xscreensaver-gl-base xscreensaver-gl-extras
exit
$

Sound Audio Mixer : Pulse Audio Control

$ su
yum install avucontrol
exit
$

Web Browser : firefox or google-chrome 

(firefox is already installed and it's a personal preference really!)

$ su
yum install google-chrome-stable
exit
$

Image Editor : gimp

$ su
yum install gimp
exit
$

Office Suite (Text, spreadsheet, etc) : libreoffice

$ su
yum install libreoffice
exit
$

PDF Viewer : xpdf or evince

$ su
yum install xpdf
exit
$

Multi-Media (audio, video, etc) : vlc

$ su
yum install vlc vlc-extras
exit
$

SGI Open Inventor

$ su
yum install Inventor Inventor-data Inventor-examples Inventor-Xt
exit
$

Blender (download from blender.org is always recommended)

$ su
yum install blender blender-fonts
exit
$

Vector Image Editor  : inkscape

$ su
yum install inkscape
exit
$

Useful X11 Apps : <must have really>

$ su
yum install xorg-x11-apps
exit
$

X11 Development Apps : <must have really for MaXX Dev.

$ su
yum groupinstall "X Software Development"
exit
$