Software
From Whonix
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]
Florence homepage [archive] (Debian package [archive]) is an extensible, scalable, virtual (on-screen) keyboard. [1]
To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal
Install florence at-spi2-core.
1. Update the package lists.
sudo apt-get update
2. Upgrade the system.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
3. Install the florence at-spi2-core package.
Using apt-get command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends florence at-spi2-core
The procedure of installing florence at-spi2-core is complete.
Figure: Florence Software in Whonix ™
Audio, Image and Video[edit]
Audio Recorder and Editor[edit]
Audacity homepage [archive] (Debian package [archive]).
To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal
Install audacity.
1. Update the package lists.
sudo apt-get update
2. Upgrade the system.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
3. Install the audacity package.
Using apt-get command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends audacity
The procedure of installing audacity is complete.
Figure: Audacity Software in Whonix ™
Image and PDF Viewer[edit]
Ristretto [archive] (Debian package [archive]) and xpdf [archive] (Debian package [archive]) come pre-installed in Whonix ™.
Start menu → Graphics → Image Viewer
Figure: Ristretto Software in Whonix ™
Figure: xpdf Software in Whonix ™
Screenshot Creator and Image Editor[edit]
Non-Qubes-Whonix ™ only! [3]
In Qubes, screenshots only work in dom0 (System Tools → Screenshot) and this applies to the entire platform, including Qubes-Whonix ™.
Flameshot homepage [archive] (Debian package [archive]).
To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal
Install flameshot.
1. Update the package lists.
sudo apt-get update
2. Upgrade the system.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
3. Install the flameshot package.
Using apt-get command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends flameshot
The procedure of installing flameshot is complete.
Figure: Flameshot Software in Whonix ™
Video Editor[edit]
Flowblade homepage [archive] (Debian package [archive]).
To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal
Install flowblade.
1. Update the package lists.
sudo apt-get update
2. Upgrade the system.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
3. Install the flowblade package.
Using apt-get command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends flowblade
The procedure of installing flowblade is complete.
Figure: Flowblade Software in Whonix ™
Video Recorder[edit]
vokoscreen homepage [archive] (Debian package [archive]).
To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal
Install vokoscreen.
1. Update the package lists.
sudo apt-get update
2. Upgrade the system.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
3. Install the vokoscreen package.
Using apt-get command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends vokoscreen
The procedure of installing vokoscreen is complete.
Figure: vokoscreen Software in Whonix ™
Another good option is gtk-recordmydesktop [archive] (Debian package [archive]). [4]
To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal
Install gtk-recordmydesktop.
1. Update the package lists.
sudo apt-get update
2. Upgrade the system.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
3. Install the gtk-recordmydesktop package.
Using apt-get command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gtk-recordmydesktop
The procedure of installing gtk-recordmydesktop is complete.
Figure: RecordMyDesktop Software in Whonix ™
Communications[edit]
E-Mail[edit]
See E-Mail.
Instant Messengers[edit]
qTox [archive] comes pre-installed in Whonix ™.
IRC Client[edit]
HexChat (Debian package [archive]) is pre-installed in Whonix ™.
XMPP/Jabber Client[edit]
TODO
Encryption[edit]
OpenPGP (GnuPG Frontend)[edit]
OpenPGP can be used to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify text. GPA [archive] and GnuPG [archive] come pre-installed in Whonix ™ (Debian packages [archive]).
Documentation:
- Enigmail documentation [archive]
- GnuPG documentation [archive]
- OpenPGP key distribution strategies
- parcimonie - privacy-friendly helper to refresh a GnuPG keyring [archive] (in Debian [archive])
Figure: GnuPG Software in Whonix ™
Entertainment[edit]
Media Player[edit]
The 
VLC Media Player [archive] (Debian package [archive]) is pre-installed in Whonix ™. There are no increased fingerprinting risks because VLC does not run Javascript [archive]. [5]
Start menu → Multimedia → VLC Media Player
Figure: VLC Software in Whonix ™
Miscellaneous[edit]
Calculator[edit]
galculator homepage [archive] (Debian package [archive]).
To install it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal
Install galculator.
1. Update the package lists.
sudo apt-get update
2. Upgrade the system.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
3. Install the galculator package.
Using apt-get command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends galculator
The procedure of installing galculator is complete.
Figure: galculator Software in Whonix ™
Terminal[edit]
Xfce-Terminal homepage [archive] (Debian package [archive]). Xfce-Terminal is pre-installed in Whonix ™.
To start it: Start menu → System → Xfce Terminal
Figure: Xfce Terminal in Whonix ™
Terminal Editor[edit]
Open File with Root Rights[edit]
Prefer sudoedit for better security. [6] Replace /path/to/file with the actual file name.
sudoedit /path/to/file
To use a different editor. Replace mousepad with the name of the editor you wish to use.
SUDO_EDITOR=mousepad sudoedit /path/to/file
An alternative would be to install these tools lxsudo and mousepad so you can keep copying and pasting these instructions.
Install --no-install-recommends sudo lxsudo mousepad.
1. Update the package lists.
sudo apt-get update
2. Upgrade the system.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
3. Install the --no-install-recommends sudo lxsudo mousepad package.
Using apt-get command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends --no-install-recommends sudo lxsudo mousepad
The procedure of installing --no-install-recommends sudo lxsudo mousepad is complete.
lxsudo mousepad /path/to/file
Work on Sensitive Documents[edit]
Office Suite[edit]
LibreOffice homepage [archive] (Debian package [archive]) [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 libreoffice.
1. Update the package lists.
sudo apt-get update
2. Upgrade the system.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
3. Install the libreoffice package.
Using apt-get command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends libreoffice
The procedure of installing libreoffice is complete.
To launch these applications: Start menu → Office
Figure: LibreOffice Software in Whonix ™
Printing and Scanning[edit]
Publishing[edit]
Scribus homepage [archive] (Debian package [archive]) 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.
1. Update the package lists.
sudo apt-get update
2. Upgrade the system.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
3. Install the scribus package.
Using apt-get command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends scribus
The procedure of installing scribus is complete.
Figure: Scribus Software in Whonix ™
scurl: SSL Command Line Downloader[edit]
To securely download files or webpages from the Internet on the command line, scurl is pre-installed in Whonix ™. scurl should be preferred over wget, since the former enforces strong encryption and is less buggy.
To invoke scurl to download a file, use the following syntax and replace the example URL with the file's location.
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 Whonix ™
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]
- ↑ Florence homepage [archive]:
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.
- ↑ The Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (at-spi2-core [archive]) is apparently a Florence dependency, since in testing it did not work without this package.
- ↑ Non-Qubes-Whonix ™ means all Whonix ™ platforms except Qubes-Whonix ™. This includes Whonix ™ KVM, Whonix ™ VirtualBox and Whonix ™ Physical Isolation.
- ↑ See also: RecordMyDesktop in Wikipedia with screenshot [archive].
- ↑ 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 [archive]; see the Original Whonix forum thread [archive].
- ↑ https://forums.whonix.org/t/use-sudoedit-in-whonix-documentation/7599 [archive]
- ↑ See also: LibreOffice in Wikipedia [archive].
License[edit]
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