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Category: Utilities

Compositing Window Managers

9 Best Free and Open Source Compositing Window Managers

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

A compositing window manager, or compositor, is a window manager that provides applications with an off-screen buffer for each window.

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Archive Manager

dtrx – intelligent archive extraction tool

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dtrx cleanly extract many archive types.

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Wallpaper Setter

Wallpaper Splitter – apply a single image

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Wallpaper Splitter allows you to apply a single image as your wallpaper spanning all of your screens on KDE.

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Monitor System

ibtop – real-time terminal monitor

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ibtop is a real-time terminal monitor for InfiniBand networks – htop for high-speed interconnects.

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Selection of utilities

Pyprland – customization tool for Hyprland

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Pyprland offers a plethora of plugins designed for simplicity and efficiency, allowing you to supercharge your productivity

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Network

turm – interface for the Slurm Workload Manager

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

turm is a text-based user interface (TUI) for the Slurm Workload Manager, which provides a convenient way to manage your cluster jobs.

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Folder

Veretino – folder integrity checker

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Veretino lets you verify the integrity of both individual files and entire lists. Analyze the contents of folders, calculate checksums, and more.

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Documents

16 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for ls

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

When invoked without any arguments, ls lists the files in the current working directory. We recommend some great replacements.

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Linux

fortty – terminal emulator

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity, Utilities

fortty is a new GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.

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Documents

lla – fast ls replacement with superpowers

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lla is a modern ls replacement that transforms how developers interact with their filesystem.

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Selection of utilities

nak – nostr army knife

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

nak is the nostr army knife command-line tool. This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

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Monitoring

dirmap – tool for generating a directory map

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dirmap is a tool for generating a directory map.

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Selection of utilities

xLights – sequencer for lights

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xLights is a sequencer to design, create and play lighting displays through the use of DMX controllers, E1.31 Ethernet controllers and more.

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Selection of utilities

ck – semantic code search

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

ck (seek) finds code by meaning, not just keywords. It’s grep that understands what you’re looking for

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Flash OS

buf – flash ISOs to create bootable USB drives

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

buf is a command-line utility for flashing ISOs to create bootable USB drives.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

demongrep – fast, local semantic code search

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Search your codebase using natural language queries like “where do we handle authentication?” — all running locally with no API calls.

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Passive OS Fingerprinting

Fingwit – configure fingerprint authentication

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Fingwit is used to configure fingerprint authentication. Fingwit relies on Fprintd.

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Selection of utilities

hyprdrover – lightweight session manager for the Hyprland compositor

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

hyprdrover allows users to snapshot their current window layout (workspaces, positions, and sizes) and restore it later.

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Command Schedulers

Cronboard – terminal-based dashboard for managing cron jobs

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Cronboard is a terminal application that allows you to manage and schedule cronjobs on local and remote servers.

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Selection of utilities

dotbins – manages CLI tool binaries in your dotfiles repository

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dotbins uniquely integrates tool-specific shell configurations (aliases, completions, etc.) directly in your dotfiles workflow.

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