commit d4ae23d7adb4f04827db18309fb0232be212ce76
parent d44f00541bd3ff5f5bd63bf2ef174c82c87f1c98
Author: rhoio <rhoio@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 20:31:06 +0100
add index.md with short description of all tools
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+tools
+=====
+
+[9base](/9base)
+-----
+9base is a port of various original Plan 9 tools for Unix, based on
+[plan9port](http://swtch.com/plan9port/).
+
+[dmenu](/dmenu)
+-----
+dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for
+[dwm](http://dwm.suckless.org/). It manages large numbers of user-defined menu
+
+[Irc it (ii)](/ii)
+-----------
+ii is a minimalist FIFO and filesystem-based IRC client. It creates an irc directory tree with server, channel and nick name directories. In every directory a FIFO in file and a normal out file is created.
+
+[lsw](/lsw)
+---
+Lists the titles of all running X windows to stdout, similar to ls(1). Might be
+useful for script integration.
+
+[lsx](/lsx)
+---
+List executables in a directory tree. It just does this, nothing else.
+
+[quark](/quark)
+-----
+quark is an extremly small and simple http get-only web server. It only serves static pages on a single host.
+
+[sandy](/sandy)
+-----
+sandy is an ncurses text editor with an easy-to-read, hackable C source. Sandy tries to maximize screen estate, minimize the SLOC used and not get in your way too much. It can somehow be controlled using a named pipe that lives in /tmp and all preferences and keybindings are to be chosen at compile time.
+
+[sent](/send)
+----
+Simple plaintext presentation tool.
+
+[sic - simple irc client](/sic)
+-----------------
+sic is an extremely simple IRC client. It consists of less than 250 lines of code. It is the little brother of [irc it](/ii).
+
+[slock](/slock)
+-----
+Simple X display locker. This is the simplest X screen locker we are
+aware of. It is stable and quite a lot of people in our community are using it
+every day when they are out with friends or fetching some food from the local
+
+[sprop](/sprop)
+-----
+sprop is a simple X property utility. Less is more.
+
+[sselp](/sselp)
+-----
+Simple X selection printer. Prints the X selection to stdout. If there is no X
+client owning the selection it just exits. Useful for scripts where you can
+query the X selection without pressing mouse Button2 in cumbersome ways.
+
+[ssid](/ssid)
+----
+Simple setsid replacement, nothing special about it except it being really simple.
+
+[svkbd](/svkbd)
+-----
+This is a simple virtual keyboard, intended to be used in environments,
+where no keyboard is available.
+
+[swarp](/swarp)
+-----
+Simple pointer warping tool for X. Warps the mouse pointer to a given position, e.g.:
+
+[tabbed](/tabbed)
+------
+Simple generic tabbed fronted to xembed aware applications, originally designed
+
+[wmname](/wname)
+------
+wmname prints/sets the window manager name property of the root window similar
+to how hostname(1) behaves.
+
+[xssstate](/xssstate)
+--------
+A simple tool to retrieve the X screensaver state.
