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Category: Utilities

Shell prompt

Oh My Posh is a prompt theme engine for any shell

May 30, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Oh My Posh is a custom prompt engine for any shell that has the ability to adjust the prompt string with a function or variable.

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Notes

Plover is a stenography engine

May 29, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Plover is software intended to bring realtime stenographic technology not just to stenographers.

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Screen Capture

Kasasa snips and pins useful information

May 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Clip and pin what’s important to a small floating window, so you don’t have to switch between windows or workspaces repeatedly.

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Font Tools

Ygt is a graphical TypeType hinting program

May 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Ygt is a Python app for hinting TrueType fonts. It is built to be fast, flexible, and open source.

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Art

28 Delightful Free and Open Source ASCII Art Tools

May 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

ASCII art is a graphic design technique that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures.

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Dot Matrix creates glyphs

May 24, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Utilities

Dot Matrix is a GUI tool which acts as glyph playground of creativity from simple lines.

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Navigation

INAV Configurator is a tool for the INAV flight control system

May 24, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

INAV Configurator lets you program and customize the INAV firmware running on flight controllers.

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Navigation

Mission Planner is software used to control autonomous vehicles

May 23, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Mission Planner is a ground station for communicating with autonomous aircraft, vehicles, or boats running Ardupilot firmware.

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Documents

lscoltui lets you change the colours of ls

May 23, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

This small tool is written in Rust.

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Monitor System

9 Best Free and Open Source GUI Tools for System Resources Monitoring in Linux

May 21, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

The tools featured in this roundup are targeted at a desktop user who wants to monitor resources being used on their machine.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Picture Of The Day – your daily wallpaper

May 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Reviews, Utilities

Picture Of The Day is a GUI tool that grabs a picture of the day from a variety of sources and sets it as your wallpaper.

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Selection of utilities

Contrast checks the contrast between two colors

May 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Contrast checks whether the contrast between two colors meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) requirements.

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Wallpaper Setter

mpvpaper – video wallpaper software

May 17, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

mpvpaper is a wallpaper program for wlroots based Wayland compositors, such as sway.

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Flash OS

JustDD is a USB Image Writer

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

JustDD is a simple graphical tool to write Linux and Windows ISO images to USB drives. It is designed for ease of use, safety, and flexibility

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Linux Candy: walrs – fast colorscheme generator

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Utilities

walrs is a command-line program that generates a color scheme from the dominant colors in an image.

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Turkey

AdventureLog is a self-hostable travel tracker and trip planner

May 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

With AdventureLog, you can log your adventures, keep track of where you’ve been on the world map, and plan your next trip collaboratively.

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Bookmark manager tool

crumbs is a bookmarking system for the command line

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

crumbs is a command-line utility for the shell, for storing commands under a meaningful name in a hierarchy.

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Clocks

17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Clocks

May 11, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

The clocks featured in this article are more sophisticated than the basic tray clock.

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Turkey

KDE Itinerary is a digital travel assistant

May 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

KDE Itinerary is a digital travel assistant that protects your privacy. It makes collecting all the information about your travel inside a single application easy and straightforward.

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Turkey

KTrip is a public transport navigator

May 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Find journeys between specified locations, departures for a specific station and shows real-time delay and disruption information.

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