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Category: Utilities

Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

D-Spy – explore the D-Bus

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

D-Spy is a simple tool to explore D-Bus connections.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: WSelector – wallpaper selector manager

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Reviews, Utilities

WSelector is a modern GTK4/Adwaita application for browsing, downloading, and setting wallpapers. It’s written in Python.

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Internet Radio

PyQSO – contact logging tool for amateur radio operators

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

The graphical user interface has been developed using the GTK+ library through the PyGObject bindings.

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Schemes – create syntax highlighting schemes

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Schemes allow you to create syntax highlighting style-schemes for GtkSourceView-based applications such as Builder or Text Editor.

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Iconic adds images on top of a folder icon

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Iconic is an application made for GNOME written in Rust to easily add images on top of folders.

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Sticky Notes

12 Best Free and Open Source Sticky Note Applications

June 8, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

A sticky note (often known as a Post-it Note) is a small piece of paper with a strip of glue on its back. Here’s our verdict.

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Food and Drink Software

wger is a fitness and nutrition manager

June 8, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific, Utilities, Web Apps

wger is a fitness and nutrition manager, with a comprehensive list of exercises and ingredients.It can be self-hosted.

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Selection of utilities

chezmoi manages your dotfiles across multiple machines

June 7, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

chezmoi helps you manage your personal configuration files (dotfiles, like ~/.gitconfig) across multiple machines.

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Compositing Window Managers

Waycheck shows Wayland compositor details

June 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Waycheck is a simple Qt6 application that displays all of the Wayland protocols that your compositor supports and doesn’t support.

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Diary

8 Best Free and Open Source Diary Software

June 6, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

This article identifies flexible and useful diary tools for the Linux desktop. Free and open source software only.

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