Linux: The Ultimate Guide

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• libcaja: seahorse
• atril
• episode
Caja is a well-known file manager at Linux. The Caja text extension allows 
users to add texts easily.
Pluma
It is the free and open-source default text editor for the MATE desktop 
Linux distribution. Pluma is an image application that supports editing 
multiple text files in a single window. It fully supports international 
text using its Unicode UTF-8 encoding. As a general-purpose text edi-
tor, Pluma supports many common editor features and emphasizes sim-
plicity and ease of use. Its key feature set includes syntax highlighting 
source code, automatic retransmission, and print support with print 
preview.
Features
Pluma includes the full integration of MATE, which provides for dragging 
and dropping to and from Caja (MATE file manager), application of the 
MATE help system, the MATE Visual File System, and the MATE print 
framework. It has Multiple Document Interface GUI tabs for organizing 
multiple files. Tabs can be moved between different windows by the user. It 
can edit remote files using GVfs. Supports complete overhaul and system 
overhaul and search and replacement. Other code-based features include 
line numbers, brackets matching, text wrapping, current line highlight-
ing, auto-loading, and a backup copy of the file.
Pluma features include multilingual spell checking with Enchant and a 
flexible plugin system that allows the addition of new features, for exam-
ple, captions and integration with external applications, including Python 
or Bash terminal. Many plugins are installed in Pluma itself, with many 
plugins in the pluma plugin package and online.
Pluma supports printing, including preview and print previews in 
PostScript and PDF files. Print options include text font, page size, layout, 
margins, optional printing of page titles and line numbers, and syntax 
highlighting.

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List of Features
• Highlighting syntax
• Print and Print Preview Support
• File Restoration
• Full support for UTF-8 text
• Remote file editing support
• Search and Replace
• Adjustable plugin, with optional python support
• The perfect visual interface for favorites
• A small new map that gives you a quick overview of the content
• A new grid background pattern transforms Pluma into a writing pad
• The filter plugin supports retrieval actions
• Display shortcut/hide line numbers, Ctrl + Y
Atril
It is the official text viewer for the MATE Desktop Environment. A 
simple multi-page text viewer. It can display and print PostScript (PS), 
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DJVU, DVI, XPS, and portable document 
format files (PDF). The document also allows text search, copy to clip-
board, hypertext navigation, and table bookmarks if supported by the 
document. Atril is Evince’s fork.
Features
• Combined search that shows the number of results found and high-
lights results on the page
• Page icons
• Documentation: Once the reference information is included in the 
PDF, Evince will display it in tree format.
• Printing Documents: Using the GNOME/GTK print frame Evince 
can print any text I can open

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• Viewed Encrypted Document
• International support
Supported Formats
• Portable Document Format (PDF) uses the Poppler backend
• Postscript uses GhostScript backend
• Multi-page tag file format (TIFF) file format
• Impressive
• DjVu uses the DjVuLibre backend
• DeVice Independent (DVI) – TeX software output format for editing
• Jokes
• Photos
Engrama
Engram is a MATE Environment archive manager resource. It’s the 
Archives’ Fork Manager. The software allows you to create and modify 
archives, archive content, view and edit archive content, and archive files. 
Engmpa is a free open-source software.
Supported File Types
• 7-Zip Compressed File (.7z)
• WinAce Compressed File (.ace)
• Compressed ALZip File (.alz)
• Archive with a small AIX (.ar) index
• ARC archive
• Compressed ARJ archive (.arj)
• Cabinet File (.cab)
• UNIX CPIO Archive (.cpio)
• Debian Linux Package (.deb) [Read Mode Only]

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• ISO-9660 CD Disc Image (.iso) [Read Mode Only]
• Java archive (.jar)
• Java Enterprise (.ear) Archive
• Java (Archive) web archive
• LHA archive (.lzh, .lha)
• Depressed WinRAR archive (.rar)
• RAR Archived Comic Book (.cbr)
• RPM Linux Package (.rpm) [Read Mode Only]
Eye of MATE Image Viewer
The MATE Image Viewer Eye app lets you view single image files and large 
photo collections. You can launch the image viewer by double-clicking the 
image in your file manager or clicking the App menu, highlighting the 
Pictures sub-menu, and then clicking MATE Image Eye.
Image Viewer supports image file formats. The following image formats 
can be opened: ANI, BMP, GIF, ICO, JPEG or JPG, PCX, PNG, PNM, 
RAS, SVG, TGA, TIFF, WBMP, XBM, and XPM. Image Viewer supports 
the following storage formats: BMP, ICO, JPEG or JPG, and PNG. Image 
Viewer may open and save some image formats, depending on your sys-
tem configuration and other software installed.
Elements of the Image Viewer
• Menu bar: The menu bar menus contain all the instructions you 
need to work with images in Image Viewer.
• Toolbar: It contains a subset of instructions that you can access in 
the menu bar.
• Showcase: The display area shows the image file.
• Status bar: The status bar provides information about the image. To 
show or hide the status bar, select View 
▸ The status bar.
• Photo Collection: Image Gallery shows you all supported images in 
the currently active directory. It appears when the image has been 
uploaded. To show or to hide the collection, select View 
▸ Photo 
Collection or press F9.

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