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Mixer

hyprmixer – volume mixer and media controller

September 24, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Hypermixer is billed as a stylish volume mixer and media controller for your hyprland rice.

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Music player

MPRIS MiniPlayer – small tool

September 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

MPRIS MiniPlayer is a small program that displays whatever media in a MPRIS compatible player is playing.

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Remote Display

KRDC – remote desktop client for RDP, VNC, and SPICE

September 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

KRDC connects to remote desktops over RDP, VNC, and SPICE with tabbed sessions, bookmarks, SSH tunnels, and configurable display settings.

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Radio

SDRangel – transmit, receive and analyse SDR signals

September 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

SDRangel is an advanced software-defined radio suite for receiving, transmitting and analysing signals across a wide range of SDR hardware.

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Mixer

QasTools – Qt-based ALSA mixer and setup tools

September 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

QasTools is a Qt desktop toolset for ALSA with graphical mixing, high-level control access, configuration browsing and device settings.

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Musical instruments

Danceinterpreter – display songs and dances at ballroom dance events

September 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

The Danceinterpreter is a utility to display songs and their according dances at ballroom dance events.

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Mixer

xfce4-mixer – audio mixer for the Xfce desktop

September 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

xfce4-mixer provides a standalone audio mixer and an Xfce panel plugin, supporting volume control through several Linux audio backends.

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Flashcards

Essentialist – private Markdown flashcards

September 21, 2025 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Essentialist is a private flashcard app using Markdown decks, FSRS scheduling, local progress storage, maths rendering and no networking.

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Mixer

Mixer – change the volume of apps

September 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Mixer is a no-frills volume mixer, with simplicity and usability at its core. It’s written in the Vala programming language.

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VNote – Markdown, Typst and mind map note-taking

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

VNote is a local note manager for Markdown, Typst and mind maps with encrypted notes, PDF viewing, notebook sync and Vim-style editing.

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PDF

apvlv – Vim-like graphical document viewer

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

apvlv is a Vim-like graphical document viewer for Linux supporting PDF, EPUB, TXT, FB2, MOBI, CBZ and HTML with keyboard-driven control.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Janus – native Linux text and binary editor

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Janus is a native Linux notepad with UTF-8 and binary editing, optional syntax highlighting, printing and straightforward text editing.

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Diff Tools

objdiff – object file diffing for decompilation projects

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

objdiff compares object files for decompilation projects with automatic rebuilds, architecture support, symbol analysis and progress views.

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Sync-in – file sync and server management

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Internet

Sync-in is available as a desktop application (Linux, macOS, and Windows and a command line interface (CLI), Sync-in adapts to your workflow

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Embellish – install nerd fonts

September 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Embellish is a GTK4 font manager for browsing, previewing, installing and removing Nerd Fonts, with custom fonts and an icon browser.

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GPS

AAT Activity Tracker – GPS-tracking application

September 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

AAT is a GPS-tracking application for tracking sportive activities, with an emphasis on cycling.

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Free and Open Source Board Games

Hunt – word search game

September 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Hunt is an easy word search game. You can play with or without a timer, or a blitz mode,

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Selection of utilities

Aurea – Flatpak metainfo banner previewer

September 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Aurea is a simple preview banner made to read metainfo files from Flatpak apps and represent them as they would on Flathub.

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Software

Octopi – powerful Pacman Qt frontend

September 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Octopi consists of a package browser, sudo helper, notifier, cache cleaner and repository editor.

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Password Managers

Key Rack – view and edit GNOME application secrets

September 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Key Rack manages application secrets in desktop keyrings, letting users search, create and edit stored passwords, tokens and other records.

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