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Accessibility

On-screen Keyboard

Florence homepagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon (Debian packagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon) is an extensible, scalable, virtual (on-screen) keyboard. [1]

To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal

Install package(s) florence at-spi2-core following these instructions

1 Platform specific notice.

2 Update the package lists and upgrade the systemOnion network Logo.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

3 Install the florence at-spi2-core package(s).

Using apt command line --no-install-recommends optionOnion network Logo is in most cases optional.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt install --no-install-recommends florence at-spi2-core

4 Platform specific notice.

  • Kicksecure: No special notice.
  • Kicksecure-Qubes: Shut down Template and restart App Qubes based on it as per Qubes Template ModificationOnion network Logo.

5 Done.

The procedure of installing package(s) florence at-spi2-core is complete.

[2]

Figure: Florence Software in Kicksecure

File:Florence.png

Audio, Image and Video

Audio Recorder and Editor

Audacity homepagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon (Debian packagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon).

To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal

Install package(s) audacity following these instructions

1 Platform specific notice.

2 Update the package lists and upgrade the systemOnion network Logo.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

3 Install the audacity package(s).

Using apt command line --no-install-recommends optionOnion network Logo is in most cases optional.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt install --no-install-recommends audacity

4 Platform specific notice.

  • Kicksecure: No special notice.
  • Kicksecure-Qubes: Shut down Template and restart App Qubes based on it as per Qubes Template ModificationOnion network Logo.

5 Done.

The procedure of installing package(s) audacity is complete.

Figure: Audacity Software in Kicksecure

Image and PDF Viewer

Ristrettoarchive.org iconarchive.today icon (Debian packagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon) and xpdfarchive.org iconarchive.today icon (Debian packagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon) come pre-installed in Kicksecure.

Start menu → Graphics → Image Viewer

Figure: Ristretto Software in Kicksecure

Figure: xpdf Software in Kicksecure

Screenshot Creator and Image Editor

Qubes info box [[Kicksecure|Template:Non q project name]] only! [3]
In Qubes, screenshots only work in dom0 (System Tools → Screenshot) and this applies to the entire platform, including [[Qubes|Template:Q project name]].

Flameshot homepagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon (Debian packagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon).

To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal

Install package(s) flameshot following these instructions

1 Platform specific notice.

2 Update the package lists and upgrade the systemOnion network Logo.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

3 Install the flameshot package(s).

Using apt command line --no-install-recommends optionOnion network Logo is in most cases optional.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt install --no-install-recommends flameshot

4 Platform specific notice.

  • Kicksecure: No special notice.
  • Kicksecure-Qubes: Shut down Template and restart App Qubes based on it as per Qubes Template ModificationOnion network Logo.

5 Done.

The procedure of installing package(s) flameshot is complete.

Figure: Flameshot Software in Kicksecure

Video Editor

Flowblade homepagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon (Debian packagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon).

To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal

Install package(s) flowblade following these instructions

1 Platform specific notice.

2 Update the package lists and upgrade the systemOnion network Logo.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

3 Install the flowblade package(s).

Using apt command line --no-install-recommends optionOnion network Logo is in most cases optional.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt install --no-install-recommends flowblade

4 Platform specific notice.

  • Kicksecure: No special notice.
  • Kicksecure-Qubes: Shut down Template and restart App Qubes based on it as per Qubes Template ModificationOnion network Logo.

5 Done.

The procedure of installing package(s) flowblade is complete.

Figure: Flowblade Software in Kicksecure

Video Recorder

vokoscreen homepagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon (Debian packagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon).

To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal

Install package(s) vokoscreen following these instructions

1 Platform specific notice.

2 Update the package lists and upgrade the systemOnion network Logo.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

3 Install the vokoscreen package(s).

Using apt command line --no-install-recommends optionOnion network Logo is in most cases optional.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt install --no-install-recommends vokoscreen

4 Platform specific notice.

  • Kicksecure: No special notice.
  • Kicksecure-Qubes: Shut down Template and restart App Qubes based on it as per Qubes Template ModificationOnion network Logo.

5 Done.

The procedure of installing package(s) vokoscreen is complete.

Figure: vokoscreen Software in Kicksecure

Another good option is gtk-recordmydesktoparchive.org iconarchive.today icon (Debian packagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon). [4]

To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal

Install package(s) gtk-recordmydesktop following these instructions

1 Platform specific notice.

2 Update the package lists and upgrade the systemOnion network Logo.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

3 Install the gtk-recordmydesktop package(s).

Using apt command line --no-install-recommends optionOnion network Logo is in most cases optional.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt install --no-install-recommends gtk-recordmydesktop

4 Platform specific notice.

  • Kicksecure: No special notice.
  • Kicksecure-Qubes: Shut down Template and restart App Qubes based on it as per Qubes Template ModificationOnion network Logo.

5 Done.

The procedure of installing package(s) gtk-recordmydesktop is complete.

Figure: RecordMyDesktop Software in Kicksecure

File:Recordmydesktop.png

Communications

E-Mail

See E-Mail.

Instant Messengers

qToxarchive.org iconarchive.today icon comes pre-installed in Kicksecure.

IRC Client

HexChat (Debian packagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon) is pre-installed in Kicksecure.

XMPP/Jabber Client

TODO

Encryption

OpenPGP (GnuPG Frontend)

OpenPGP can be used to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify text. GPAarchive.org iconarchive.today icon and GnuPGarchive.org iconarchive.today icon come pre-installed in Kicksecure (Debian packagesarchive.org iconarchive.today icon).

Documentation:

Figure: GnuPG Software in Kicksecure

Entertainment

Media Player

VLC Media Player Icon

The VLC Media Player Icon VLC Media Playerarchive.org iconarchive.today icon (Debian packagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon) is pre-installed in Kicksecure. There are no increased fingerprinting risks because VLC does not run Javascriptarchive.org iconarchive.today icon. [5]

Start menu → Multimedia → VLC Media Player

Figure: VLC Software in Kicksecure

Miscellaneous

Calculator

galculator homepagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon (Debian packagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon).

To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal

Install package(s) galculator following these instructions

1 Platform specific notice.

2 Update the package lists and upgrade the systemOnion network Logo.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

3 Install the galculator package(s).

Using apt command line --no-install-recommends optionOnion network Logo is in most cases optional.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt install --no-install-recommends galculator

4 Platform specific notice.

  • Kicksecure: No special notice.
  • Kicksecure-Qubes: Shut down Template and restart App Qubes based on it as per Qubes Template ModificationOnion network Logo.

5 Done.

The procedure of installing package(s) galculator is complete.

Figure: galculator Software in Kicksecure

File Manager

Thunar Icon

Thunar is pre-installed. To launch it:

Start menu → System → Thunar

Figure: Thunar Software in Kicksecure

Task Manager

There many choices. Unspecific to Kicksecure. Here are two taskmanager graphical user interface (GUI) examples.

Install package(s) xfce4-taskmanager following these instructions

1 Platform specific notice.

2 Update the package lists and upgrade the systemOnion network Logo.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

3 Install the xfce4-taskmanager package(s).

Using apt command line --no-install-recommends optionOnion network Logo is in most cases optional.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt install --no-install-recommends xfce4-taskmanager

4 Platform specific notice.

  • Kicksecure: No special notice.
  • Kicksecure-Qubes: Shut down Template and restart App Qubes based on it as per Qubes Template ModificationOnion network Logo.

5 Done.

The procedure of installing package(s) xfce4-taskmanager is complete.

Install package(s) ksysguard following these instructions

1 Platform specific notice.

2 Update the package lists and upgrade the systemOnion network Logo.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

3 Install the ksysguard package(s).

Using apt command line --no-install-recommends optionOnion network Logo is in most cases optional.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt install --no-install-recommends ksysguard

4 Platform specific notice.

  • Kicksecure: No special notice.
  • Kicksecure-Qubes: Shut down Template and restart App Qubes based on it as per Qubes Template ModificationOnion network Logo.

5 Done.

The procedure of installing package(s) ksysguard is complete.

Popular taskmanager command line utilities include:

  • top
  • htop
  • ps
  • pstree
  • pgrep

Task killing can also be done on the command line.

  • kill
  • killall

Terminal

xfce4-terminal-emulator icon

Xfce-Terminal homepagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon (Debian packagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon). Xfce-Terminal is pre-installed in Kicksecure.

To start it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal

Figure: Xfce Terminal in Kicksecure

Text Editor

Open File as Regular User

mousepad is installed by default.

Replace /path/to/file with the actual file name.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! mousepad /path/to/file

Open File with Root Rights

Prefer sudoedit for better security. [6]

Replace /path/to/file with the actual file name.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudoedit /path/to/file

To use a different editor, replace mousepad with the name of the editor you wish to use.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! SUDO_EDITOR=mousepad sudoedit /path/to/file

Work on Sensitive Documents

Office Suite

LibreOffice homepagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon (Debian packagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon) [7] is recommended. It is a fully-featured office productivity suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft (R) Office. A word processor is included, along with spreadsheet and presentation applications.

To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal

Install package(s) libreoffice following these instructions

1 Platform specific notice.

2 Update the package lists and upgrade the systemOnion network Logo.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

3 Install the libreoffice package(s).

Using apt command line --no-install-recommends optionOnion network Logo is in most cases optional.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt install --no-install-recommends libreoffice

4 Platform specific notice.

  • Kicksecure: No special notice.
  • Kicksecure-Qubes: Shut down Template and restart App Qubes based on it as per Qubes Template ModificationOnion network Logo.

5 Done.

The procedure of installing package(s) libreoffice is complete.

To launch these applications: Start menu → Office

Figure: LibreOffice Software in Kicksecure

Printing and Scanning

See Printing and Scanning.

Publishing

Scribus homepagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon (Debian packagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon) is an open source desktop page layout accessible from the desktop menu (Applications → Graphics). It can be used for many tasks; from booklets design to newspapers, magazines, newsletters and posters to technical documentation.

Scribus has sophisticated page layout features like precision placing and rotating of text and/or images on a page, manual kerning of type, bezier curves polygons, precision placement of objects, layering with RGB and CMYK custom colors. The Scribus document file format is XML-based. Unlike proprietary binary file formats, even damaged documents can be recovered with a simple text editor.

To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal

Install package(s) scribus following these instructions

1 Platform specific notice.

2 Update the package lists and upgrade the systemOnion network Logo.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

3 Install the scribus package(s).

Using apt command line --no-install-recommends optionOnion network Logo is in most cases optional.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! sudo apt install --no-install-recommends scribus

4 Platform specific notice.

  • Kicksecure: No special notice.
  • Kicksecure-Qubes: Shut down Template and restart App Qubes based on it as per Qubes Template ModificationOnion network Logo.

5 Done.

The procedure of installing package(s) scribus is complete.

Figure: Scribus Software in Kicksecure

scurl: SSL Command Line Downloader

To securely download files or webpages from the Internet on the command line, scurl is pre-installed in Kicksecure. scurl should be preferred over wget, since the former enforces strong encryption and is less buggy. See also Secure Downloads.

To invoke scurl to download a file, use the following syntax and replace the example URL with the file's location.

Click = Copy Copied to clipboard! scurl https://dist.torproject.org/torbrowser/9.5/tor-browser-linux64-9.5_en-US.tar.xz

This will download tor-browser-linux64-9.5_en-US.tar.xz to the current working directory.

Refer to the scurl entry for further examples and a complete description of this tool.

Figure: scurl Command in Kicksecure

Additional Software

If the recommendations in this section are unsatisfactory, additional applications can be easily installed in a few steps; see Install Software.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Florence homepagearchive.org iconarchive.today icon:

    It is useful when a real keyboard is unusable either because of a handicap, disease, broken keyboard or tablet PC; but when a pointing device is usable. Florence stays out of your way: it appears on the screen only when needed. An auto-click functionality also help people having difficulties to click buttons.
  2. ↑ The Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (at-spi2-corearchive.org iconarchive.today icon) is apparently a Florence dependency, since in testing it did not work without this package.
  3. ↑ Kicksecure means all Kicksecure platforms except Kicksecure inside Qubes. This includes Kicksecure on hardware, Kicksecure in VMs such as VirtualBox, Kicksecure KVM.
  4. ↑ See also: RecordMyDesktop in Wikipedia with screenshotarchive.org iconarchive.today icon.
  5. ↑ However, unrestricted access to the large number of codecs, along with the gstreamer and ffmpeg frameworks can expose the system to remote attacks. The risk is greater than with Tor Browser because the latter attempts to restrict codecs to a particular subset. No cookies are stored by VLC and no information is collected and sent to third partiesarchive.org iconarchive.today icon; see the Original Whonix forum threadarchive.org iconarchive.today icon.
  6. ↑ https://forums.whonix.org/t/use-sudoedit-in-whonix-documentation/7599archive.org iconarchive.today icon
  7. ↑ See also: LibreOffice in Wikipediaarchive.org iconarchive.today icon.

License

Kicksecure Software wiki page Copyright (C) Amnesia <amnesia at boum dot org>
Kicksecure Software wiki page Copyright (C) 2012 - 2025 ENCRYPTED SUPPORT LLC <

This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see the wiki source code.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the wiki source code for details.

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