Software
Warning[edit]
It is estimated that within 10 to 15 years, Quantum Computers will break today's common asymmetric public-key cryptography algorithms used for web encryption (https), e-mail encryption (GnuPG...), SSH and other purposes. See Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQCrypto).
Accessibility[edit]
On-Screen Keyboard[edit]
onboard homepage
(Debian package) is an extensible, scalable, virtual (on-screen) keyboard.
To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal
Install onboard. To accomplish that, the following steps A. to D. need to be done.
A. Update the package lists.
B. Upgrade the system.
C. Install the onboard package.
Using apt command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
D. Done.
The procedure of installing onboard is complete.
Figure: Onboard Software in Kicksecure ™
Audio, Image and Video[edit]
Audio Recorder and Editor[edit]
Audacity homepage (Debian package).
To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal
Install audacity. To accomplish that, the following steps A. to D. need to be done.
A. Update the package lists.
B. Upgrade the system.
C. Install the audacity package.
Using apt command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
D. Done.
The procedure of installing audacity is complete.
Figure: Audacity Software in Kicksecure ™
Image and PDF Viewer[edit]
Ristretto (Debian package) and xpdf (Debian package) 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[edit]
Kicksecure ™ only! [1]
In Qubes, screenshots only work in dom0 (System Tools → Screenshot) and this applies to the entire platform, including Kicksecure ™ for Qubes.
Flameshot homepage (Debian package).
To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal
Install flameshot. To accomplish that, the following steps A. to D. need to be done.
A. Update the package lists.
B. Upgrade the system.
C. Install the flameshot package.
Using apt command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
D. Done.
The procedure of installing flameshot is complete.
Figure: Flameshot Software in Kicksecure ™
Video Editor[edit]
Flowblade homepage (Debian package).
To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal
Install flowblade. To accomplish that, the following steps A. to D. need to be done.
A. Update the package lists.
B. Upgrade the system.
C. Install the flowblade package.
Using apt command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
D. Done.
The procedure of installing flowblade is complete.
Figure: Flowblade Software in Kicksecure ™
Video Recorder[edit]
vokoscreenNG homepage (Debian package).
To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal
Install vokoscreen-ng. To accomplish that, the following steps A. to D. need to be done.
A. Update the package lists.
B. Upgrade the system.
C. Install the vokoscreen-ng package.
Using apt command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
D. Done.
The procedure of installing vokoscreen-ng is complete.
Figure: vokoscreenNG Software in Kicksecure ™
Communications[edit]
E-Mail[edit]
See E-Mail.
Instant Messengers[edit]
IRC Client[edit]
HexChat (Debian package) is pre-installed in Kicksecure ™.
XMPP/Jabber Client[edit]
TODO
Encryption[edit]
OpenPGP (GnuPG Frontend)[edit]
OpenPGP can be used to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify text. GPA and GnuPG come pre-installed in Kicksecure ™ (Debian packages).
Documentation:
- GnuPG documentation
- OpenPGP key distribution strategies
- parcimonie - privacy-friendly helper to refresh a GnuPG keyring (in Debian)
Figure: GnuPG Software in Kicksecure ™
Entertainment[edit]
Media Player[edit]
The 
VLC Media Player (Debian package) is pre-installed in Kicksecure ™. There are no increased fingerprinting risks because VLC does not run Javascript. [2]
Start menu → Multimedia → VLC Media Player
Figure: VLC Software in Kicksecure ™
Miscellaneous[edit]
Calculator[edit]
galculator homepage (Debian package).
To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal
Install galculator. To accomplish that, the following steps A. to D. need to be done.
A. Update the package lists.
B. Upgrade the system.
C. Install the galculator package.
Using apt command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
D. Done.
The procedure of installing galculator is complete.
Figure: galculator Software in Kicksecure ™
File Comparison Tools[edit]
A file comparison tool is also often called a diff viewer.
meld[edit]
Install meld. To accomplish that, the following steps A. to D. need to be done.
A. Update the package lists.
B. Upgrade the system.
C. Install the meld package.
Using apt command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
D. Done.
The procedure of installing meld is complete.
Usage example:
kdiff3[edit]
Install kdiff3. To accomplish that, the following steps A. to D. need to be done.
A. Update the package lists.
B. Upgrade the system.
C. Install the kdiff3 package.
Using apt command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
D. Done.
The procedure of installing kdiff3 is complete.
Usage example:
diff[edit]
diff is a pre-installed command line interface (CLI) diff viewer.
Usage example:
File Manager[edit]
Thunar is pre-installed. To launch it:
Thunar as User[edit]
- A) From start menu:
Start menu→System→Thunar - B) From command line: thunar
Figure: Thunar Software in Kicksecure ™
Thunar with Administrator Rights[edit]
From command line:
Task Manager[edit]
There many choices. Unspecific to Kicksecure ™. Here is a taskmanager graphical user interface (GUI) example.
Install xfce4-taskmanager. To accomplish that, the following steps A. to D. need to be done.
A. Update the package lists.
B. Upgrade the system.
C. Install the xfce4-taskmanager package.
Using apt command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
D. Done.
The procedure of installing xfce4-taskmanager is complete.
Popular taskmanager command line utilities include:
tophtoppspstreepgrep
Task killing can also be done on the command line.
killkillall
Terminal[edit]
Xfce-Terminal homepage (Debian package).
Xfce-Terminal is pre-installed in Kicksecure ™.
To start it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal
Figure: Xfce Terminal in Kicksecure ™
Unsafe Paste Warning Popup[edit]
This is a demonstration of the Warning: Unsafe Paste feature of the Xfce Terminal Emulator. Other graphical terminal emulators might have similar features.
Figure: Warning: Unsafe Paste feature
First a text editor is opened, then several arbitrary lines of text written, copied to clipboard and pasted into the terminal emulator.
1. Open a text editor.
Open file some-file-name in a text editor of your choice as a regular, non-root user.
If you are using a graphical environment, run.
If you are using a terminal, run.
2. Write several lines of text.
Should be long lines. Should be multiple lines. The text is not important. Can be anything.
For example:
3. Copy to clipboard.
Select all of the lines of text and right click, copy to clipboard.
4. Open a terminal.
Open a terminal.
If you are using Kicksecure ™ inside Qubes, complete the following steps.
Qubes App Launcher (blue/grey "Q") → Kicksecure ™ App Qube (commonly named kicksecure) → Xfce Terminal
If you are using a graphical Kicksecure ™ with XFCE, run.
Start Menu → Xfce Terminal
5. Paste the text into the terminal.
6. The warning popup will appear.
Warning: Unsafe Paste
7. Done.
The demonstration of the Warning: Unsafe Paste feature has been completed.
If the user does not understand the contents of the pasted text, the user should abort. Otherwise, the user might be compromised by running commands not understood by the user.
Related security risk: Invisible Malicious Unicode
Text Editor[edit]
Open File as Regular User[edit]
mousepad is installed by default.
Replace /path/to/file with the actual file name.
Open File with Root Rights[edit]
Prefer sudoedit for better security. [3]
Note: Replace /path/to/file with the actual file name.
To use a different editor, replace mousepad with the name of the editor you wish to use.
Work on Sensitive Documents[edit]
Office Suite[edit]
LibreOffice homepage (Debian package) [4] 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 libreoffice. To accomplish that, the following steps A. to D. need to be done.
A. Update the package lists.
B. Upgrade the system.
C. Install the libreoffice package.
Using apt command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
D. Done.
The procedure of installing libreoffice is complete.
To launch these applications: Start menu → Office
Figure: LibreOffice Software in Kicksecure ™
Printing and Scanning[edit]
Publishing[edit]
Scribus homepage (Debian package) 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 scribus. To accomplish that, the following steps A. to D. need to be done.
A. Update the package lists.
B. Upgrade the system.
C. Install the scribus package.
Using apt command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
D. Done.
The procedure of installing scribus is complete.
Figure: Scribus Software in Kicksecure ™
scurl: SSL Command Line Downloader[edit]
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.
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[edit]
If the recommendations in this section are unsatisfactory, additional applications can be easily installed in a few steps; see Install Software.
Footnotes[edit]
- ↑ Kicksecure ™ means all Kicksecure ™ platforms except Kicksecure ™ inside Qubes. This includes Kicksecure ™ KVM, Kicksecure ™ VirtualBox and Kicksecure ™.
- ↑ 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 parties; see the Original Whonix forum thread.
- ↑
https://forums.whonix.org/t/use-sudoedit-in-whonix-documentation-and-whonix-software/7599
- ↑ See also: LibreOffice in Wikipedia.
License[edit]
Kicksecure ™ Software wiki page Copyright (C) Amnesia <amnesia at boum dot org>
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