Utilities to manage your Slint system. In the list below, each command is followed by its purpose. (R) after the command indicates that it should be run as root. We indicate after each command if it has a man page (man) and/or an help option (help), and if just running the command indicates its usage (run) --- Utilities written for Slint --- These utilites have have written by Didier Spaier hide-kde-apps (R) Display only in KDE the entry menus for most KDEapps show_kde-apps (R) Display entry menuds for KDE apps in all graphical environments login-chooser (R) (run) Allows to choose between text mode (console) or a graphical login manager among those shipped in Slint, and to have speech in the login manager if available and requested. speak-with (R) (run) Allows to chose among the console screen readers shipped in Slint: espeakup (Console screen reader connecting espeak-ng and the speakup) fenrir (Modern, modular, flexible and fast console screen reader) speechd-up (Console screen reader connecting Speech Dispatcher and speakup) none (no speeach) orca-on Orca will be enabled in graphical environments for the user who runs the command orca-off Orca will be disabled in graphical environments for the user who runs the command. setsession (R) (run) Allow root to set the desktop session to be used after login or 'startx' for some user. session-chooser (run) set the desktop session to be used after login or 'startx' for the user who runs the command. slint-doc Allows to browse and display the Slint documentation spd-list (run) Lists languages and synthesizers available for applications relying on Speech Dispatcher, like Orca or speech-up. switch-on (run) Switch on (have it run at startup) one of these software: emacspeak (The Complete Audio Desktop, based on emacs) speechd-el (Emacs client to speech synthesizers and Braille displays) switch-off (run) Switch on (do not run at startup) one of these software: emacspeak (The Complete Audio Desktop, based on emacs) speechd-el (Emacs client to speech synthesizers and Braille displays) list-espeak-ng-voices Lists all available espeak-ng-voices mate_slint_theme Apply a Slint specific theme to Mate -- Utilities provided by Salix (another Slackware) derivative --- They are written by Salix (mostly George Vlahavs) and Zenwalk contributors (mostly Jean-Phillippe Guillemin) Some of the following utilities have a graphical front-end whith 'gtk' in their names. clocksetup (R) (man) and gtclocksetup (R) Allows to set the system clock, the time zone and use or not the clock synchronization through NTP dotnew (R) and dotnew-gtk (R) Help the user manage system configuration files in slackware and Slackware based distributions. keyboardsetup (R) (man) and gtkkeyboardsetup (R) Allows to choose a keyboard layout, activate or not numlock at startup and activate or not the SCIM input method at startup localesetup (R) (man) and gtklocalesetup (R) (man) Allows to choose the default system locale netsetup (R) (man) and netconfig (from Slackware) (R) (man) Allow to choose the network configuration method. service (R) (man) Allows to list the system services and their current status, start (and make it auto start at boot), stop or restart a given service servicesetup R (man) and gtkservice setup (R) Lists the current status of the system services and set each of them to start or not at system start up. update-all (R) (man) Perform systema maintenance tasks, updating several databases and caches usersetup (R) (man) and gtkusersetup (R) Allows to manage the user groups ans user accounts --- System and package management utilities--- installpkg, makepkg, mkinitrd, pkgtool, removepkg, upgradepkg come from Slackware slapt-get, slapt-src and gslapt have been written by Jason Woodward, depfinder, spi and sourcery and salix-update-notifier have been written by George Vlahavas, Salix maintainer. spkg have been written by Ondrej Jirman Several of the mentioned utilities have been adapted to Slint installpkg (R) (man) (help) Install packages stored locally. makepkg (R) (man) (help) make a package in Slackware format from a package tree mkinitrd (R) (man) (help) Make an initrd for generic kernel(s) The mkinitrd packages includes a geninitrd script that makes and installs an initrd with support for all installed generic kernels pkgtool (R) (man) adapted to Slackware manage packages and run again configuration scripts removepkg (R) (man) (help) Remove packages. upgradepkg (R) (man) (help) replace installed packages by other ones, stored locally, at another version. xwmconfig (R) (man) Allows to choose which X session will be used when running 'start', superseded by session-chooser slapt-get (R) (man) Allows to manage packages from remote repositories, taking in account the dependencies, with features similar to those of apt-get gslapt graphical front-end to slapt-get slapt-src (R) (man) Utility to query, retrieving, and building packages from slackbuilds. Use with care, only if you are experienced in building packages from SlackBuilds provided by https://slackbuilds.org. Preferably use the third-party sbopkg application, cf. the document SoftwareManagement sourcery (R) (man) Graphical front-end to slapt-src spkg The Unofficial Slackware Linux Package Manager Command line tool that can install, remove, upgrade pacakages. Be careful when using the upgrade feature as it does not do pre- installation, which has nasty consequences in specific cases. spi (R) (man) Command line tool that acts as a wrapper around slapt-get and slapt-src depfinder (man) Tool that finds the dependencies of Slackware packages. salix-update-notifier Tray notification for package updates, running slapt-get at regular intervals Last updated on 25 March 2021